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I've been working with people for 20 years (I make aphasia therapy software) and it's amazing how little the average person appreciates their language.

I like to say :
Aphasia is the deficit that has everyone not talking.

When we try to relearn language as an adult we find out just how complicated speech & language are.

But, boy, when it's gone you realize how valuable it is.
Only very, very early system bootstrapping stuff. Beyond that, most software was written on the machines themselves. Like this guy, who is also on HN

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
Hmm. Laughter doesn't scale when you're not funny. Plenty of viral YouTube videos have shown that it sure as heck can scale.

The problem with this button is fairly obvious in hindsight. Google injected humor into many people's business and personal worlds where it wasn't wanted or expected.

This article is yet another apologist for what is clearly a lack of foresight by Google.

By the way, I notice society explaining away a lot of behavior by others lately. People seem afraid to criticize products and other people these days.

Let's call this what it is: a massive mistake. Google corrected it as soon as they realized it and apologized. We can move on.
Some things just stick with you, and they come back to mind later when you read something, and the combination is either amazing, or amazingly terrible to consider.

It was bigger than most of the cells he had been in. But he hardly noticed his surroundings. All he noticed was that there were two small tables straight in front of him, each covered with green baize. One was only a metre or two from him, the other was further away, near the door. He was strapped upright in a chair, so tightly that he could move nothing, not even his head. A sort of pad gripped his head from behind, forcing him to look straight in front of him.

For a moment he was alone, then the door opened and O'Brien came in.

'You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.'

The door opened again. A guard came in, carrying something made of wire, a box or basket of some kind. He set it down on the further table. Because of the position in which O'Brien was standing. Winston could not see what the thing was.

'The worst thing in the world,' said O'Brien, 'varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement, or fifty other deaths. There are cases where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal.'

He had moved a little to one side, so that Winston had a better view of the thing on the table. It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by. Fixed to the front of it was something that looked like a fencing mask, with the concave side outwards. Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. They were rats.

'In your case,' said O'Brien, 'the worst thing in the world happens to be rats.'

A sort of premonitory tremor, a fear of he was not certain what, had passed through Winston as soon as he caught his first glimpse of the cage. But at this moment the meaning of the mask-like attachment in front of it suddenly sank into him. His bowels seemed to turn to water.

- George Orwell, 1984
A lot of people on Hn like to say this,but I wonder what kind of bubble they live in where gaining knowledge about the physical world that immediately surrounds then isnt important or useful.

No benefit in finding shops or restaurants? Roads, museums? When searching for a place getting info on one in India, Britain or America is just the same?
IIRC, those machines have a severely limited distance & flight time.
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What it feels like to suddenly lose language

Brain Scientist Describes her stroke, with humor and insight.

This is one of the best rated TED talks. I hear she spent 6 months practicing. And it shows.

Link to curated version (skips the boring part :)

http://www.bungalowsoftware.com/stroke/how-a-stroke-feels.ht...
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Honest question, what do you think Slack is worth as a company?
100 year language might be meant seriously by some people, but I meant it as something that has enough powerful concepts to stay relevant for a long time.

It harks back to Paul Graham's essay where he started off on Arclisp as a 100 year language and better designed lisp. Other priorities came up and it didn't really go anywhere besides maybe being used for this website. Hopefully Perl6 doesn't suffer a similar fate.
Today is April 1st.

I think this article is a wizardly April Fools joke -- it comes off as 100% serious. But it can't be.

Not really.

After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Or Tailgunner Joe's McCarthyism. Or Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Or the Salem Witch hunt.

And all those things turned out wonderfully -- so why not do it again?

/s
should not be possible to read any phone sensors without permission!
I would love this to be working with 3rd party backup tools such as barman or pgbackman.
Cleary cloudflare's customers prefer this behavior, it's their website, they are free to block tor traffic if they like.
Not exactly the same topic, but I don't know how I would feel about violence in VR.
I don't ever cared about violence in video games, music and movies and such.
I always thought that people arguing that violence in these games should be censored were just puritans.
But with sufficiently advanced VR, I believe that you can really feel like what it would be like to someone who is extremely violent. And I wonder if this can desensitize someone to the point where their propensity to be violent is significantly increased due to VR usage.
We'll need to take ethics in VR more seriously as VR becomes more mainstream and more powerful.
Where would you want to go?

In the US, you're more likely to be killed by a cop than by a terrorist in Europe.

Japan is peaceful for now, but has its own problems - rising tensions with China, proximity of North Korea, low economic opportunity. Same goes for most other developed Asian countries.

Africa, Middle East, Russia, most of Asia and South America are less developed (AFAIK), in terms of social cohesion, healthcare, economic opportunity.

The best options seem to be Australia and New Zealand, they are English-speaking, highly developed, peaceful, lawful and, most importantly, far away - a problem for some (e.g. if you have family members in other countries), but in case of major conflict, it will probably be a good idea.

All in all, some perspective is in order. Europe is probably the strongest it's been in the past 100 years. There are 300 million inhabitants, so even 1M migrants is a drop in the bucket. There are no immediate threats from other nation-states, except possibly for a few countries bordering Russia - although even they seem focused more on the Middle East recently. Most European countries still have the strongest social security.

On the other hand, the unexpected is just that, by definition. Chances are low, but it's possible that some crazy person does something crazy (Putin? Erdogan? A right-wing EU leader?). But that's true pretty much anywhere in the world.
A few things:

...do you live in the US?

> A civilian...

Police are civilians. Some people see this as hair-splitting, but it's a very important distinction.

> If I got that close to a traffic cop, I would probably be in jail.

In the US, if you're jailed just for being in close proximity to a police officer, then you've been jailed illegally. (If, however, you refuse to give the guy some room when he asks for it, then you can be detained and (maybe) jailed.)
1. Can't you just close your eyes?

2. The caption for the Guantanamo Bay picture is not accurate. The detainees are kneeling waiting to be processed. (the picture was taken in the first few days Guantanamo opened as a detainee prison): http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/16/gitmo-o.... Certainly bad treatment, but hardly sensory deprivation.
Probably far more terrifying are what governments use Tor etc for. The US did not build Tor to spread peace and love, after all.
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I can't really see this being good for any publisher or advertiser, you're cutting in two new parties (Brave & the user) and the CPM will tank due to poor targeting. They'd be better off blocking it and hoping it dies off before adoption.

Maybe users will flock to it to earn a few pennies in ad replacement mode? Certainly not for the oppty to pay for ad-free mode.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, my friend. I've been seriously contemplating for about a year now whether America is a sinking ship and it's time to leave and head back across the pond.
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As one VERY rich person said to me.. Australia is a rich persons playground
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"Obama told the group of 50 heads of state and foreign ministers"

"This hypothetical war-game was described by a U.K. official speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was closed."

Condition of anonymity, sure...
Same as it always was, isn't it?

You get old, the world changes, and you just can't hack it, so you turn to controlling others through violence and laws.

"Back in my day sonny..."
I'm not sure how torture in VR would be any worse than torture in real life. The focus should be on outlawing torture, not slowing down unrelated technology because it could possibly be used for torture.

Are we going to ban the drill? The hammer? Towels? Those can all be used for torture, but that's not the use case for 99.999% of all uses.
Virtual Reality really isn't this immersive yet to be able to used for psychological torture, in fact the idea is almost laughable. Anyone that has used a VR headset knows that you don't actually think you are in the game, though the closeness of the screen and 360 degree freedom does definitely make it more real than looking at a TV 6 feet away, it is a longshot from actual reality. Additionally whats to stop the viewer from closing their eyes? Also, the torture techniques they mention in the article are far worse than wearing a VR headset...
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Not to mention, consumer electronics aren't very radiation hard. I would not be surprised if strapping some nasty isotopes to a DJI phantom causes it to malfunction.
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Smalljs covers everything I need when I don't need anything. Basically is < 80 lines of shorthand for finding elements, iterating over elements and messing with classes. Supports IE9+ and everything else as far as I'm aware.

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Well that's the formula. Take the cheapest sources of fat, salt, sugar and carbs you can find, combine it with various emulsifiers into a palatable format, and add natural and artificial flavors until it tastes like something.
For me, the best April Fools’ joke was when GitHub added SVN support[1]. It was funny, ironic, useful, and best of all, real. I always think of it as the April Fools’ joke that keeps on giving.

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> If somebody suggested deleting data because a report was ugly, they'd be laughed out of the room.

If somebody suggested keeping data that showed every step of a person writing a report, they'd be laughed out of the room.

It's gray area that varies significantly by feature complexity and team dynamic. I find it frustrating when someone merges a branch with 1 real commit and 3 more one-line commits or trivial fixes that should have been in the first.
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I don't see Bitcoin as being any more convenient for most people since they don't have any Bitcoin and would need to buy some and figure out where they want to keep them. (It isn't particularly easy to open an account on CoinDesk, for example.)
Yeah, torture in Virtual Reality is definitely something that could become scary in the future. I mean, there's already talk of using it to give someone the experience of being in prison for decades while only days have actually passed.

Now imagine if you could design a prison that mimicked the detainee's worst nightmares. You've probably seen stuff like A Nightmare on Elm Street or the Scarecrow from Batman, right? That could potentially become an actual thing if VR gets really advanced and its used for 'punishment' purposes. It might even be usable for actual brainwashing, if you design the environment so it deliberately destroys each and every one of a subject's political opinions or religious beliefs.

On the bright side, virtual torture could make for some pretty cool horror games in the future. There have already been tons of stories and creepypastas about horrifying games like this on the deep web.
Don't mess with interfaces that a billion users rely on.
There's definitely some merit in keeping the original intent of commit messages even when "committing early and often", but at the end of the day a pull request is supposed to tell some kind of story. When you `git blame` or `git log` a particular file, aren't you more interested in the higher-level changes than a single developer's own miniature storyline of how it got that way?

I'll give you another analogy...If I'm composing a song, and you're not particularly trying to learn how to write songs, what is more relevant to you, the end result or the various drafts and early versions that made it to that end result? For the majority of people who aren't interested in learning the mechanics of songwriting, the "journey" is definitely not as interesting as the destination. For nerds like you and I, that's part of the fun! So I try to keep the original intent of my commits, and preserve their messages in a bullet-pointed list format, to show the individual changes that were made in addition to a higher-level overview of the overall change to the project.

TLDR: Project-level changes are not the same as individual changes, and while both should be represented in commit messages, the project-level changes are overwhelmingly more useful in the future. Git is not about code storage, it's about code communication. It's about developers on the same team communicating with both prose and code in tandem.
Right, because literally nobody is talking about uses of VR that aren't already possible.
Call me naive, but wouldn't this problem be best solved by requiring that commits represent meaningful and working increments of work?

I use 'git add -p' judiciously and only commit when having reached a point where something can be usefully said to be in some way "done". Sure, it's not perfect, and occasionally I end up having to do some cleanup of miscellaneous printf statements, debug values or typoes in subsequent commits, but this is something that should really be avoided if possible.
Millionaires are fleeing their country to avoid penal liability.

I am french, I have read Clinton's email, and I think they try to avoid investigations. And some have a lot on their plate.

On one hand I think the country will be better without them, on the other one I still hope justice will be made. And I would like the welcoming countries to be aware some millionaires are rich by bending rules.
1. They can just sew your eyelids to your forehead. It probably wouldn't leave much scarring, your muscles are not strong enough to warrant the use of very thick wires...
I think this is a strawman - I don't think anyone is suggesting publishing WIP commits.
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If everybody I knew were emailing instead of texting, chatting, calling, video calling, I would have much better relationships, professional and personal.
Sometimes the rational mind takes a back seat to your irrational fears. How hard is it to cycle through thousands of the most common fears a few seconds for each, while tracking vitals, and note which ones give an elevated response? Tell the claustrophobe "it's okay, right past that door it's wide open!" Tell the arachnophobe "it's okay, it's not a poisonous spider!" Tell the father "Don't fret, those images of your daughter weren't real. What do you think we are, monsters?"
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Exactly. Humor requires context, and context doesn't scale easily.
Yes, we did this because too many people were abusing deletion and it was gutting the threads.

It's true that you can still edit the comment text to nonsense or nothing (as long as you're within the edit window of 2 hours, which hasn't changed). I don't see any way short of strong AI to prevent that, nor should we want to. But this isn't the "same effect". It leaves the shell of the comment intact, including username and time posted, which is a lot more context than there was in the past—metadata, anyone?—and so the threads are less gutted. And, some, hopefully many, users will simply edit their comment to remove what was bad about it.

Edit: I forgot to mention that people are always welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask us to delete specific comments if they're worried about them. We do that all the time, e.g. for people who regret including personal info in an HN comment.
You know my friend at 800,000 users who are paying at least $6 per month, and with their growth rate, they might pull off that valuation.
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> Consider - it their main focus here had been EEE then BSD would have been a far better starting point. The GPL is far more restrictive than the BSD license.

What Microsoft has created is binary translation for Linux system calls, like Wine but allowing Linux to run on Windows instead. FreeBSD, among many other OSs, has done something similar for a long time, precisely because Linux is the most popular Unix-like OS. In addition, Microsoft doesn't care about the drivers -- everyone still writes drivers for Windows.
This is for a "pull request", namely an individual logical change. Your two points don't apply. If you're dealing with whole branches with multiple developers, stick with merging, but this isn't that.
According to one psychologist, perhaps. Having grown up as a fairly affluent white kid, and having seen quite a few definitely affluent white kids in my time, I don't know that I've ever heard the "self-medicating" bit with reference to them.
We (https://raygun.com) use a lot of .NET on the server side. We also use golang, node and a few other things, but a lot of .NET, specifically with C#.

We're very excited about being able to run on Linux. There's plenty of our back end worker processes that are in C# and being able to move them to Linux will be a big win for us (manageability, cost, etc).

I'm not sure what you consider a significant user base, but we do have 40k+ devs on our platform, and we process billions of interactions and software exceptions every month from many of the top 100 web sites and apps globally.
Yeah, but in Australia we have sharks, snakes, spiders and drop bears .. don't forget the drop bears. Plus, our Internet is crappy (unless you're on the National Broadband Network) and we are something of a nanny state. Oh, and our housing is ridiculously expensive. But apart from that, everything is pretty good.
> Posted by Harriet Kim Jarlett on 31 Mar 2016.

Well, there goes my first theory.
the world is a sinking capitalist ship, go to where the capitalists have already left
I think it's less about VR torture as a replacement for torture in general, and more about VR torture as a more effective replacement for current psychological torture. There's nothing preventing them from continuing with physical torture to in addition, or as a supplement to VR torture.
No account at Coinbase or any other online exchange is required to own bitcoin. In fact, to have someone else hold your money is against the spirit of Bitcoin.

Everyone is their own bank. All you need is a Bitcoin wallet and I recommend exactly that app, Bitcoin Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....

There are many others as well. BitPay has a user-friendly one called Copay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitpay.cop...
Dirty bombs are a hugely inneffective weapon. You are taking a radioactive material at high (dangerous) concentration and spreading it around an immense area to low (less dangerous) concentrations, where the wind will easily carry it away in a plume. The conventional explosion will kill and maim more than the radiation.

If you want to use radioactive materials to harm a large populace, hide it in a reflective box with a tiny opening on one side so it emits highly concentrated ratiation in a tight directional beam. Install box at chest height facing a busy street. The repeated exposure at high concentrations will do way more than a dirty bomb's easily detected scattered low concentration will.

Source: Formerly worked in the world of defense.
> But maybe you heard about people who, for instance, got fired because they hit this accidentally?

Yeah, I'm waiting for Snopes to weigh in on that one.