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It's gaining a lot of traction with iOS developers. If you just want to learn a language to learn a language, ocaml or Haskell would be more interesting. Give Swift another 2 or 3 years before it gains traction outside of iOS.
Terrible if true. Is there a source for this claim?
Maybe so. I don't know that that changes anything. In fact, I'm not sure what you even mean by "efficient market" in this context.
"BS"? Ah, religious language wars again?

To me traditional means more like Algol, Fortran, PL/I, the original Basic, and maybe some more.

To me, the Visual Basic .NET (VB) Dim is, right, a bit obscure for now but, of course, back in the original Basic abbreviated Dimension for specifying bounds in arrays and was plenty clear. Microsoft may still be laughing at deciding to use Dim in VB. I regard Dim as a small mistake.

Finally to me, the VB Dim is like the PL/I Declare or the Fortran Real, Integer, Logical, Character.

For declaring (don't know a better term) in C, I can't gripe with just

int i;

IIRC that the syntax of C is idiosyncratic actually is somewhere in Kernighan and Ritchie.

In the example in Kernighan and Ritchie with declaring functions, the arguments, the return values, pointers to functions, etc., I couldn't get through the syntax. I'm sure there are a lot of C function declarations I couldn't proof read. Maybe if I worked and worked and ran a lot of test cases, I could understand it -- I'd also forget it by next week.

For loops I see Fortran's

Do i = 1, 10

as okay. The PL/I loops I like much better. In total what VB .NET has in loops is better still. The C loop syntax I don't like.

C wants to make a lot of use of their ++ idea, and I don't like it -- it's too sparse for me. One old excuse was that on some DEC computer being used at Bell Labs, there was an instruction for ++. I'm not impressed; to me, the most important reader of the code is me, not the processor!

Then where C permits

++i+++++j++

which officially in the language it does, I just gave up. Actually, when I tried that statement, two different C compilers gave different results. So, the C compiler writers can't understand the semantics of such syntax either.

I don't want to write, read, teach, debug, or bet my business on code with such syntax.

I've written some C, and I'll write some more if I have to, but I don't have to like it.

With C, having some syntax that is tricky to read seems too close to an actual objective.

It may be that some programmers regard VB as not manly enough. To me, VB is Microsoft's best language for applications programming and the code of my startup.
> Just last month, 3 terrorists with automatic weapons and suicide bombs tried to inflict as much damage as possible and "only" killed 45 people in Istanbul.

Fundamentally different than the TSA lines I referenced. In Istanbul they have two security checkpoints, one brief one at the entrance to the airport itself and another further in similar to the TSA. The attackers mostly pushed their way through the first one and it ended up being a choke point for them. They didn't get near where the bulk of the people were.

> The Lockerbie bomber used a small cassette player filled with Semtex to kill 243 people -- aided by 90,000kg of jet fuel and 31,000ft of gravity.

Hence why I didn't discount it. Attempting to brings explosives onto a plane and setting them off seems like a far more difficult task than doing it in an area with a similar people concentration and zero people checking your bags.
please do a favor:

- rename tarballs to Marp-0.0.8...tar.gz

- put the code inside a main directory
While I can't speak about every culture, in W. Africa, Christianity took root because the colonial powers brought missionaries who established religious schools wherein the practice of traditional religion was impossible. For the longest time, these were the only schools available so the educated became Christian, and thus the powerful and well-connected were all Christian as a result.
Seems like this would be very easy for them to block since they know your GPS coordinates. They could just pop up a message saying "Pokemon Go is not yet available in your region," although, the good will demonstrated by allowing customers in other countries to play would probably be better than arbitrarily blocking them.
No, the problem is that the TOS that App Store users must agree to before downloading the app conflicts with the GPL.

See http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-... for more detail.
>We hyped up college: It is your goal in life to go to send your kids to college. Everybody has to go to college.

I've seen many of my friends spend all their income on house/rent just to live in a good school district. There is no way they are going to let their kids not go to college, they have already created a narrative, a spiral for their kids, no way a kid can escape college at this point. Sunken cost bias.

They spend thousand of dollars on all kinds of things like swimming, piano, ballet, science clubs, coding clubs, robotic clubs, social work club ect. All gears towards making their Stanford application look good. There is no stopping now, wheels are already in motion, full speed ahead.

Kid's view of his life is a hero who lives up to expectations, against all odds. Each test is a battle that must be won. He has been raised on a constant diet of praises for his 'good work', his mind conditioned to keep the praises coming at all costs. The narrative has been set, love is love of success, fear is fear of failure.
Then flag it and move on; that's better for HN than very generalized complaints such as these, and much better for HN than content guideline rehashings such as thread parent's. Of course if any particular post only inspires threads like this one, that may be a negative indicator...
I agree with this but there is a much more subtle problem now. Because there are so many people with degrees, you need a degree to get a decent job. If you don't have a degree, your resume is just filtered away.
Wow, the purchaser forgot to put in a non-compete clause, it would seem. You could insist all the software be done in Rust this time... or get the company to allow twenty percent of time for personal projects.
Typical wirehead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born–and Users Gladly Consent
Go Incognito – Chrome Extension
College costs so much, in part (and I'd argue in large part), because we flooded the market with money: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
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I wouldn't care about 401(k) fees if they provided a bigger return. The problem is that they don't. At all. None of those managed plans provide a bigger return over a long time horizon than a three-headed fund (50% index, 25% bonds, 25% international indices).
Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It
The epidemic actually started in the 1960s, with 2 in 1968 and 5 in 1969. Before that there had only been one every few years.

Starting in 1970, there were at least 44 air hijackings worldwide over the next decade, over half of them before 1973.
Errr ... how about no?

All my family lives in Europe. I live on the US west coast. "hopping city to city" would turn a 1 day nuissance into an arduous journey.

No thanks. I already see my family only once to twice a year.

Considering there are multiple flights per day between SFO and Paris and other EU hubs, I think my case is far from being a corner case.
Do you have overhead? If so, yes. A non-profit still generates a significant amount of revenue... especially since they don't have to pay the same tax as a normal company does.
> Most "clever code" I've seen is called clever by people who are not yet proficient enough in a language to understand it.

My interpretation is the opposite. I call code "clever" after I've understood it. I agree its not universal, but in all the cases I've seen it used so far, its been another way to say "This could have been written in a simpler, more readable manner. And it should have been."
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i find the one that blocks Andy Borowitz's "satire" articles from the New Yorker to be both humorous and essential
Exactly - I just meant not the default popup as soon as you launch without any explanation or justification.

This is what developers would do in the past with location access also, but as privacy awareness takes hold people are far more likely just to deny these permissions.

In iOS it's a pain for a user to actually reenable the setting after the fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
> That's not borne out by actual attacks.

Are you sure? The majority of largest terrorist attacks, casualty wise, didn't even involve a plane except for September 11th attacks (obviously several did but not the majority) [1].

> The recent airport bombings didn't kill as many people as a single airplane. I'm tempted to blame it on incompetence, but we shouldn't deny the facts.

That airport bombing was very different than the suggested TSA security line hypothetical as the airports in Istanbul work fundamentally different (I addressed in the other comment).

What facts am I denying? I always try to base my opinion around only facts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_viol...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane
It seems like a parsimonious state-space for a drug would just be the agonistic/antagonistic affinity for every neuro-receptor. There would be some partial coronations (between all of the subtypes of the GABA receptor for example).

It would be neat to see how the authors psychological state-space and this neuro state-space map to each other though.
Police Mistake Pokémon GO Players for Drug Dealers
> In my experience, if I want to stop gaining I need to cut out sweets and sodas, and that takes some effort and will, but I feel okay replacing my mountain dew with carbonated water and tea.

I do the exact same thing! I get absurdly cheap sparkling water and leave it chill in fridge. Sometimes I add crystal light lemon or cherry.

> I have successfully gotten down to a normal BMI this way, but if that's how being thin feels, I don't really see the point.

Sure but a chocolate bar just tastes incredible if you haven't had one for a long time. I think sweets are much harder to kick than fats.

> I ran a lot when I was thin, but as a fat person, trying to run enough to stress the cardiovascular system properly usually resulted in minor injuries that prevented me from running often enough to get into shape

Don't bother running! Walking is shown in study after study to make you more creative. Better yet walk in a forest (maybe you saw the plant research thread?). A mysterious journey in the brain happens when physically walking.

> if you really believe that man is an incredibly efficient machine, well, you probably have not seen me engage in any sort of sport.

Take a look at hurling. It's like a sport found in Harry Potter but without broomsticks.

I think it is worth improving physical coordination abilities. You might be bad at it but improving in weak areas should improve seemingly unrelated areas in your brain. Even if it didn't, you will live longer.

> I personally have a goal of 5 hours a week of intense (read: I'm dripping with perspiration) cardio every week.

Trust me, you're the 1%. Your gym's existence depends on the fact.
This comment is slightly off topic...

One thing that really bothers me are the tax rules applied to different types of interest. For people that buy a home, they can write off 100% of the interest. For someone with $100k in grad loans and a high salary, but living in an expensive city, they can only right off $3k in interest.

Why does the person 'investing' in their education not able to get the same tax benefit as the person buying a home to enjoy? This tax inequity disproportionately favors the wealthy.
Barbecue is meat hacking.
Maybe a really stupid question, but how does this work out:

> Manufacturers can activate the chip, but the decision to do so typically rests with carriers. If you’re Verizon customer, tough luck.

If Verizon is the carrier, they just provide your SIM-card, right? You don't need to buy your phone along with your mobile plan. I bought my Samsung Android S4 from an online shop, my carrier had nothing to do with that. I just insert my (their) SIM for calls and texts and data.

So who decided not to enable the radio, here?
I've added a stub section on the subject that I will expand as I learn more: http://mixmastamyk.bitbucket.org/pro_soft_dev/sdlc_2_req.htm...
>payments capped at 10% of disposable income

That's what almost everyone fails to mention every-time "crippling student loan debt" pops up. It's capped at 10% of disposable income, and disposable income is calculated as 1.5x the federal poverty level. So if you're making under that (because you're stuck in a part time food service job), you pay nothing. As you make more money, you'll pay more, but it will never go above 10% of disposable income, and you can write off up to $2,500 per year in interest paid on the debt (so if you're making very little you'll be able to take a deduction for almost the entire amount you pay). Then if you haven't managed to pay off your loans after 20 years of making payments, the debt is cancelled [1].

The Obama administration also changed the eligibility for income based repayment plans, so that people with older student loan debt can sign up for them as well.

[1] There's still a problem with the IRS taxing cancelled deb but, it's not as bad as it seems.

First, You're only taxed up to insolvency. So for instance, if you have more liabilities than assets (including the student loan), the tax debt is cancelled. This is likely the case for someone who didn't make enough to pay off the loan in 20 years.

Second, sometime over the next 20 years as more and more people face this situation, congress is likely to do something. There are no interest groups fighting for the status quo, it won't cost that much, and it looks good as a press release, so there's good reason to think congress will fix this.
Severe anxiety is painful for sure, but doesn't that seem a bit unnecessary? Given there are proven methods for treating anxiety such as medications, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapies, etc without such a high cost.
Maybe this is a get off my lawn thing, or I'm just old. I graduated undergrad in Dec. '99. My parents and grandparents always told me college was an investment. It was not some place to go party or experience, it was a place to get an education and hopefully lead to a better job. When I started, doctor/lawyer was the obvious pushed path (I was pre-med for 2 semesters). If I had come home with some clearly bad major I would have been smacked in the head. When I switched to CS, I had to convince my parents it was a good move because they were not particularly tech savvy.

Maybe it is because I grew up with very little, but college was never a 'do what you love' or 'go for the experience'. It was 100% about making sure that I didn't have scrape together change to put gas in the car or buy some food ever again. I just so happened to be extremely lucky, because I love programming, computers and technology.
This seems like perfect fodder for an RNN.
Broadcast FM radio has a wavelength of around 3m which is much larger than cell frequencies. Broadcast AM actually is much much longer than FM due to its low frequencies. If you take 800khz near the center of the dial, the wave length is about 375 meters.

AM antennas are smaller because they are generally not very good. Most I gave see in cheap radios are wire wound around a ferrite core. That matches the impedance but the loss is high. It's usually ok for AM broadcast though because the power levels are HIGH and there is minimal multipath distortion.
Slightly OT: An entertaining perspective on student debt from New Orleans artist Dee-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqbXQa05Z6c
> Terseness has its advantages.

I'd argue there's a difference between being concise and being terse. I think that's what's at the heart of beautiful code: It expresses its ideas in a very simple, concise manner, without sacrificing readability. ("As simple as possible, but not simpler")
JASNH is cool, but it's not about falsifiability. JASNH, as it says right in the name, is about not falsifying the null hypothesis. The other journals are full of articles falsifying (null) hypotheses.
React/Reduct Best Practices and Gotchas
Thanks all for the great discussion and feedback, I've already incorporated much of it and will continue to improve the weaker sections.
https://www.gnutls.org/security.html
I meant mitm on CD rom side, as the protection track unique, could be simpler approach (which later you can remove optic drive with SD or usb)
They could. If they did, they'd probably kill the game on the spot, or at least significantly curtail its popularity. As it is right now, the game is a global phenomenon, and it's getting immensely popular worldwide.
There still isn't for non-international flights in New Zealand. Show up at the airport 15 minutes before your flight, check your luggage, print your ticket, and walk to your gate.
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There's research going on about that [1], in fact going a step farther by removing the entire undercarriage of the plane. It's safer too -- partially extended landing gear is more dangerous than belly landing because struts and hydraulic systems are a lot more fragile than solid ribs of metal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_carriage
If this case was still active, the staff would probably be involved in monitoring the banking system for the serial numbers of the bills given to the hijacker, as well as going over any seizures that included hard currency (for example: drug busts and civil forfeitures across the country; not a small task).

Theoretically, the job could be done by a single python script with a direct line to some central currency database fed by all banks and local law enforcement but with government, everything is more complicated.
It really speaks more to the runtime than the language. There's nothing fundamentally anti-parallel about lua, but even just concurrent GC is difficult to execute well. Look at how big of a deal Go's recent low latency claims are.
An antibiotic discovery startup, eh?

That's freaking fascinating, I'm in bioinformatics myself, I'd love to hear more about this- I wasn't aware that an antibiotic discovery startup was/is/could be a thing at all- If you can tell me anything more or put me on the right track to reading more about your old employer in that space or whatnot, I'd appreciate it! :)
Before 2001, I'd always ask the pilots to let me sit in the cockpit during takeoff. If they said no, they'd often offer a tour of the cockpit when cruising instead.
> eliminate inheritance

Why would you want that? Wouldn't eliminating inheritance add a lot of boilerplate code?
This article unfortunately is lacking in useful content; the real value is in the comment section. For example, one commenter says: do the first two years in a community college and save a bundle.

How we got here is a complex story that can't be explained in a few sentences loaded with obvious partisan snipes e.g. "the Republicans privatized Sallie Mae", while neglecting to mention the Bush Administration's repeated warnings about reckless lending at Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac that went ignored by a Democrat-controlled Congress. There's more than one side to the story.

One of the main problems of course is that universities find it easier to raise tuition than to cut costs. Budgets rise, tuition rises, and students simply borrow more money, in a kind of death spiral that is now reaching its logical conclusion: hundreds of thousands of graduates crippled with enormous debts and an inability to earn the necessary income to pay them off.

When I compare the campuses of today with those of the 1970s, when I was in university, and earlier in the 1960s and 1950s when my elders were in school, I am aghast at the ridiculous and profligate expenditures that have little or nothing to do with higher education. Student activity centers came into vogue in the '70s and were built all over the country: theaters, game rooms, snack bars and restaurants, activity rooms, etc.

Today they are like malls complete with food courts, clothing shops, Starbucks, cyber cafes or free wifi zones -- palatial, sprawling, with high ceilings, multi-tiered glass and steel structures that run into the hundreds of millions of dollars in construction costs and then many millions in operational costs.

Dormitories were once the most basic housing imaginable, concrete blockhouses full of doubles and triples with cheap mattresses on wooden platforms, a cheap dresser, and military style bathrooms. Today in some places at least, they are like luxury condos.

Forgiving loans is not an option. Millions of Americans worked hard to pay off their own loans and feel little sympathy for those who foolishly over-borrowed.

The only solution is a simple one: cut costs. According to my academic friends, many universities today have more bureaucrats than professors, and better paid than professors, too. Cut the staff to the bare bones, eliminate the Olympic swimming pools and town-within-a-town developments, and focus on one thing: education.

I could run a university for a fraction of the cost by renting an old warehouse, subdividing into a few lecture halls and rooms, hire 20-30 professors, a custodian or two, get a bunch of chairs and white boards and wifi routers, and poof! education will result. Students can live at home and brown-bag it. In fact I've often thought about doing this. Find a bunch of professors who are sick of dead-end adjunct jobs and offer them a way to take back their lives.
Coming from the "investment" perspective later in life (got my CS degree at age 26, I'm 29 now), Community College was a no-brainer.

A lot of the Ivy League folks at my current coding job are "surprised" that I started at a CC. I went transferred to a UC, and the CC classes were smaller, the teachers were of better quality, and they were more accessible whenever I needed help.

But no, we sell college as the entire "package" -- Getting laid in the dorms, doing MDMA, getting away from your parents for the first time, etc. This "package" has added costs.
JLink is updated very quickly and works with every arm platform and IDE imaginable.
Meaning no disparagement of Shannon and Information Theory, I would urge you to study Cybernetics as well.

Information Theory can be understood as an attempt to make real world phenomenon act like digital symbols. Cybernetics, in contrast, attempts to make digital symbols act like real world phenomenon.

In logic, "A = not A" is a contradiction that jams the works, but in cybernetics it's just an oscillator. Our systems are more properly modelled by the formalisms of Cybernetics than Information Theory.

(You can get a PDF copy of "Introduction to Cybernetics" from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html)
I'm sorry but no. They destroyed the lives of my parents. They convinced a generation that the future was at hand, that you only need to sacrifice a little more, and everything would be great.
They convinced a generation that any other alternative was a treason against Cuba and humanity.

There is no justification for what they did.
NB the word "most". By your own admission, you make this journey once or twice a year.
The embargo had little effect, as with embargo Cuba could/was doing business with Spain, several nordic countries, Mexico, various South American countries, etc. It is the retrograde economical system in the island what has caused most of the problem, and that is linked to the political/dictatorial behaviour of the current system.

For the records, I do not agree with the embargo, as I see it as 1) worthless, and 2) only affecting Cubans and Americans (the people).
Ockham's Law of Programming: the simplest solution which solves the problem is the best solution.