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I learned all my initial programming from tutorial sites. Some other ones, if anyone remembers: sitepoint forums, neverside, spoono, tutorial9, phpforums.... And of course IRC channels. I had so much fun in those, always competing with the other kids who were 12-14 years old (there was always someone smarter than I was).
And there was a massive groundswell of support within the government to keep 'their team' from losing. Keep in mind the only reason Nixon is such a big deal is because Republicans were equally outraged, at least morally, at what Nixon did. I don't think that would happen today if Obama did something worse and I have my doubts about Republicans too.
If anyone wants in, here are 5 invite links.

[Edit: all used up.]

Each works for only one signup, so hurry up :-)

By the way, most users get around 20 free invites shortly after signing up. If one of the links above opened your account, why not share five of your own invites afterwards?
So basically Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat? Not one of those interest me in my thirties. Obviously there has to be some substance to what you're creating, but you actually wanting to use it, is a big driving factor.
Let's Encrypt: “Just passed 5M active (unexpired) certificates.”
Why zero assets, and not fudge the numbers for your benefit?

Why brick routers and SCADA systems, and not spread malware or cause damage?

Why shut down the police/fire radio system, and not air false calls?

Chaos and misinformation is more useful than simply shutting it all down.
The Dell Latitude 13 (7370) is the business version of the XPS 13 [1] [2], although for some strange reason Dell decided to swap the Core i5 and i7 processors in the XPS for Core M5 or M7 CPUs.

[1] http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/latitude-13-7370-laptop/pd

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10720212/dell-latitude-13-w...
I think you're looking for Swagger. It's been around now for awhile, works well, and has a good ecosystem of tools around it.
I use scm_breeze[0] which adds these shortcuts + has numbered file shortcuts, which allow you to type 'ga 1 3' to add files 1 and 3 (numbers are shown by 'gs' - git status).

[0] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/scm_breeze
Adding a Transitioning Sticky Nav Using CSS
>Are rich nations turning their back on the world?

Compared to the era where they carpet bombed the world, had 2/3 of the global population as slaves in their colonies, etc?
I think the best explanation of the differences between Free Software, Open Source, and Copy Left is the first 30 minutes of Revolution OS.

This part for copyleft, does anyone really find this difficult to understand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84FMc1GF8M&t=17m13s
I'd say there is a problem with low birth rate :)
I'd expect either Rank2Types or RankNTypes to be included in Haskell', you may be thinking of ImpredicativeTypes.

Wow, I did not realize ScopedTypeVariables had been around for so long.
> I can't build another house just like it, and I can't sell the plans to somebody else.

That wouldn't be considered "free software" if house designs were the same as software. But they aren't -- software serves a functional purpose and is something you use constantly throughout your life. House plans are essentially used once to build your house and that's about it. Though of course you could argue that an architect could have a business model that allows for their clients to resell the plans (by selling customisations to plans or creating new plans for each customer).

> Yet it would be very hard for him to make a living if other architects could just take his plans and use them.

It would also be hard for "users" of the plans to be able to ask for another architect's opinion on the plans. Or to say "this architect is not doing as I say, I will take these plans to someone else who can help me better".

> And the idea of selling giving the program away for free but charging to fix the errors may not be the best for all cases.

You can also sell improvements or features. In fact, you can get contract work with people paying you to implement features in $freeSoftwareProject. Sure, it's not a very common model but it does exist.

> but I don't think it's the only case.

It's not the only case, but as a developer it's the case I always aim for. Licensing something under a lax license is generally a tactical move (it would be a greater benefit if this wasn't copylefted), but I personally will always opt for copyleft because then I can guarantee that the eventual users of my software will have freedom.
I bought my cousin an 11" Macbook Air for $300 (refurbished, mid 2011 model) She's a bright kid, but living with her grandmother (not a great home situation) in rural Utah, and only had Internet access through her phone. Phones are usually more important than a computer, if you have to choose between the two (and don't have reliable Internet, or the skills/knowledge to set up Google Voice, or, say, VOIP software on your laptop), but a MacBook doesn't have to be more expensive than a smartphone.
So just to be clear, you have zero evidence to back up your assertion.
Yeah, Unisys bought Convergent. The Financial environment was strong. Also government and military. Anybody who used total-cost-of-ownership as a metric found CTOS to be attractive. The network was self-configuring so you saved a network admin right off the top.
> But there are often significant (even legislative!) barriers to doing that, especially in the United States where government entities are often required to release data to the public domain. How about changing that legislation?

If it is public domain, it may be incorporated at software licensed in any form, even whole proprietary.

Also, public data must be public domain, but software used by government doesn't.
Inside Windows 7: RADAR – Windows Automatic Memory Leak Detection (2009)
No, no, no. Those are things that no one should be doing.

If you want to control an entire community to the extent that most zoning boards and HOAs do, the proper thing to do would be to retain ownership of the property and write the restrictions into your leases.

Your neighbors' property is not your property. If they wish to make their home into an eyesore, that's unfortunate for you, but they really like being able to dispose of their owned property as they see fit. If they wish to use their yard to grow nothing but dandelions, tamp down on your outrage and let them; for all you know, they will be using them for organic salads and floral wine, and to stop them would be taking food out of their mouths.

The only thing that the county/municipality should be doing is to assess and levy the costs of any externalities upon the property owners, and to ensure that no property owner can cause so much damage that they cannot subsequently pay to repair it. No amateur nuclear reactors in the backyards, for instance. No dumping PCBs into the creek.

That car on blocks should be fine, provided that any parts containing toxic pollutants have been removed and disposed of properly. Once you remove the lead-acid battery, gas tank, and exhaust system, then drain the fluids, there isn't much left in it to worry about.

You don't, after all, have any property interest whatsoever in the view from your front porch. The more you forcibly remove the illusion of control that people have over their own lives, the greater the number who will crack and become les petits Napoleons, seeking to control others in petty ways. Some number of HOA officers follow the mentality "if I can't have a purple garage door, then no one else can do what they want, either".
Sarah Nahm - Founder & CEO of Lever> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgNKhhsppY
If you are considering the XPS 15, you might also look at the E7470. I have been using one of these as my primary machine for several months now and have been quite impressed. The high-DPI display is fantastic, it's built like a tank, and I've had no compatibility issues whatsoever after a firmware upgrade. Moreover, it runs at a reasonable temperature and I can get 7 hours out of the battery if careful (`killall -STOP firefox` is a must, unfortunately).

The only minor annoyance was the lack of driver support for the Alps touchpad hardware. Thankfully, after poking and prodding enough people I was able to get specifications and implement driver support. I do wish that Dell, et al would be more proactive in pushing their vendors to merge driver support but oh well.

All-in-all, I'm very pleased with the machine.
> The erosion of the will to dissent, and the power of the individual over their own lives

We Swedes are way past that. We live as humble subjects of our government, cuddled from cradle to grave, bowing to their authority much as we once bowed to the king. :P

But every four years the people is abolished and the government choses a new one, so it's still a democracy! ;P
The three of them already use basically the same package system. The package management suite (pkg_add, pkg_info, etc.) and the ports collections all originated from work Jordan Hubbard did for FreeBSD in 1994. OpenBSD re-wrote all the tools, but they are functionally the same. NetBSD (pkgsrc, really) added a frontend (pkgin) to offer a more "modern", apt-like experience. FreeBSD added a similar frontend (pkg) in version 10.

As far as I know, there is no binary compatibility between the three of them, so sharing package repositories would be a no-go, but if you know the tools on one system, that knowledge is transferable to the others, for the most part.

If you want to use the same exact ports collection on each of them, NetBSD's pkgsrc is quite portable, and will work not only on the other BSDs, but on Linux, Mac OS X, Minix, Solaris, and a few others as well. I use pkgsrc to manage packages on my Mac Mini -- Joyent provides binaries for most things, and the other stuff is usually just a `bmake` away.
"Others have made the assertions that based on reading some of the DNC emails published by WikiLeaks that George Soros is attempting to influence Hillary Clinton."

"others have made assertions", wow that's some damning evidence! Such garbage on HN
Show HN: Python next word prediction
I don't buy this definition at all.

First, the "semantics" had better not change, either by an optimizing or non-optimizing compiler, or you've got a miscompile.

Second, I've seen several source-to-source compilers (that the proponents of the term transpiler would certainly call transpilers) that do non-trivial transformation, e.g. to try to capture certain idioms, or that are required as a result of an "impedance mismatch" between the languages.
As are zoning requirements, parking minimums, and HOA's, so apparently prescribing a particular lifestyle is something folks are quite fond of. Given that the winning side has generally been the one fond of low-density, sprawling, single-use architecture, it seems worthwhile to discuss the merits of said architecture and its impact on the people who live in it.
I started programming before the author was born.
Yeah, that's kind of the important point. It's not whether BillG or any of his engineers would have needed to rip off CP/M, it's whether the dude they bought it from did.
Yes. The SE Handbook is about much larger, more complicated, more reliability-driven projects, than are often discussed here.
Much louder than the cherry mx blue. There's a spring inside which buckles sideways. The point at which it buckles provides the physical and audio feedback.
HOAs are made up almost entirely of people who have nothing better to do. Retired school principals and dentist's spouses who have all the time in the world to think of things like "those bushes are too tall" or "those yellow recycling contains are ugly."
Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf]
And yet they fail to teach capitalization. Or tact.
My stance on free VPN's is that there is somebody paying for a server and bandwidth somewhere. They have to be making money to keep that up, so its either injected ads or your browsing and usage information is being sold. (which defeats the purpose of a VPN IMO)
These folks are probably smarter than me, but they might not be less paranoid.

I have previously been 100% sure something nefarious was going on, (somebody edited this file!!) and then discovered that I was connected to the wrong server, for example.

This is only meant to help them think clearly as they investigate.
>That international cooperation has undoubtable made the world a safer place. It has seen the expansion of the middle class in BRIC. Between 1981 and 2005, poverty dropped from 84% to 18% in China, 80% to 42% in India, 17% to 8% in Brazil. Between 1990 and 2012 the average global life expectancy jumped by a full 6 years! Hell, if you lived in Liberia, it was 20 years!

It's the withdrawal of colonialism (due to WWII exhaustion, national freedom movements, and political pressure) and the end of the 2 superpowers Cold-War peripheral collusions, that gave those countries a better chance to catch up and develop themselves.

Not some "international co-operation" coming top-down.
World Economic Forum: A look at how blockchain can reshape financial services
Not this. "The government" is just groups of people. Some groups, such as the NSA, certainly do have the ability to be close to omniscient (or as much as it matters here). Their motto is "Total Information Awareness" for crying out loud!

Didn't you ever read Brave New World? You don't publicly kill the Truth-knowing bloggers. You drown them out with by a million distractions. See also: Mao's Hundred Flowers campaign.

I'm not going to argue every stupid conspiracy theory that anyone can name...but I don't need to. There are plenty of actual conspiracy facts that should be sufficient to convince anybody that this kind of shit actually happens. COINTELPRO, Operation Mockingbird and MK Ultra to name a few.

The modern "skeptic" gets it all wrong - they don't question anything and come to conclusions way too quickly. That's because they're not actually skeptics, they're just afraid of getting out of their mental comfort zone.
> I'm reminded that in a lot of places outside of the US, flaunting your wealth is considered a big faux pas.

Here in Yankee-land, it is also frowned upon.
I tried learning Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. It mostly worked, until it didn't. When I asked others around for help, and it became clear I'd done some newb thing to generate an un-google-able error, I was on my own. No one I knew developed on Windows. After being stuck enough times with maybe-Windows-specific errors, I decided I need a Mac.
The "world elite" and "global governance" were also directly responsible for things like the elimination of smallpox.

I'm not sure either that ICRC people encouraging more of this is the problem or Trump vacillating between isolationism and threatening to "bomb the shit" out of countries represents anything that vaguely represents a solution.
Empires are great for wealth creation. America has constructed an empire-that's-not-an-empire through internationalist orgs like NATO, the IMF, the UN, etc.

Before we had Pax Britannica and Pax Romana. Now we have Pax Americana. But probably Pax Americana will go just like Pax Britannica and Pax Romana. I don't think we've reached the end of history yet.
Waiting for the Linux-Version: Checking the Code of Inkscape Graphics Editor
Interesting discussions happening on Twitter, eg https://twitter.com/thegrugq. Looks like this could be at least somewhat legit.
Google's Fuchsia operating system runs on virtually anything
2k Essay – Amazon-Ing Race for the Smart Home and One More Thing – TL;DR at End
>Alright. How do we deal with global warming?

In an ad-hoc manner? We have lots of global bodies like the UN, and numerous ad-hoc global treaties.

Global cooperation doesn't have to be global governance, and involve everything and the kitchen sink.

>Shouldn't international laws and co-operation between nations, naturally develop into a global government?

No, they shouldn't.

We have different cultures and different preferences in our different countries, we don't want powerful bully countries coercing us in what to believe, including countries so backwards as to still practice the death penalty or to think "welfare" is some dirty word.
Did the major nations of the world ever hold hands and sing songs? Has that actually been done? I'm not super up on my world history, but I don't remember that ever being a thing.
That was clearly a posed picture. Possibly, when dealing with the public (like journalists) they unload and stow magazines.
Hacks upon hacks upon hacks.

On the inside, Git is a thing of beauty, marvel of engineering. On the outside, it is a mess of inconsistent command line options, terrible documentation, and snobbish community that thinks everything of this is fine and small surface details are irrelevant as long as the core works exactly as advertised. They probably also work in Emacs with default keymap.
No, you often can't. If you could, it would be already done by one of those shallow initiatives the GP is talking about.

I'd be very interested on any ideas about how to make deep innovation less risky. For shallow ones is "launch fast", but what to do when this one is not available?
Some other twitter accounts to watch:

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings

https://twitter.com/msuiche
I'm only half joking here, and I'm definitely not saying you're wrong. Just trying to explain why we Swedes probably don't think about the cashless society in the same way as americans do.

And by the way, most of my friends would probably describe me as "a borderline libertarian" (by Swedish standards), "fixated" on individual liberties and similar.
What bazqux2 said is accurate. I'll go further to say that the kinds of work Palantir is involved in is mostly probabilistic. Especially intelligence work. So, use of models requiring certainty or straight logic in areas rife with uncertainty & degrees of truth seems set up to fail outside easy inferences. One can encode the logical stuff in probability models but harder to do reverse. Hence, their underlying tech should be probabilistic, fuzzy logic, or something similar for best results instead of just some results.

Far as ontologies in general, they have a mixed, track record. They take a lot of work to create. Then, they have to be mapped to real world inputs and outputs. One way they got applied is so called business rules engines or business process management. It's like a subset of ontology approaches of past. Here's a company that uses the real thing for enterprise software with Mercury language for execution part:

http://www.missioncriticalit.com/development.html

Also, Franz Inc, of Allegro Common LISP, covers many of the same use cases as Palantir with their ontological tooling.

http://allegrograph.com/solutions-by-use/

So, there's definitely companies using it for long periods of time for real-world, use cases. Palantir just seemed to be mixing it with hype and secrecy to maximize their sale price later. ;)
Well, yeah — that's why I force myself to exercise. But man do I loathe it.
That's a good idea. At the very least add a note about it in the mean time maybe. BTW as a caching-only system redis can scale exactly like memcache if your client supports it. I did this in one project and it worked great.

EDIT: Also, it might be too niche, but you can also have a look at redis+dynomite, which makes redis behave like a distributed database. https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite
Sounds important. What does it all mean?
Right, recursion is elementary, I missed that one. (It's even pretty much a prerequisite for depth-first graph traversal.) As far hash tables, I agree it's important to vaguely know how they work and to know the performance characteristics, but I wouldn't consider it critical to know how to implement one from scratch.
Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes
>A tax that will be passed on to the consumer which will disproportionately affect the poor?

A tax on BS consumption won't "disproportionately affect the poor". The poor have vastly more basic needs to be concerned with a tax on all kinds of consumerist crap.
Is it possible weight loss made you sleepy?
If the price is so important, I have a €1800 Fujitsu laptop from work and could name no issue. It even works perfectly with Linux. Consumer devices are not necessarily bad but often the price increase from that to a business tool is worth it, as you say. I just find the Apple praise weird when people often never used an equivalent non-Apple device.
Neither, unless you can propose a third option.
«I don't really get what keybase.io is supposed to solve»

Keybase was built to solve the "web of trust" bootstrap problem [1] by leveraging the web of social media profiles a user typically has with simple replicable proofs of social media identity.

[1] Arguably the hardest problem in PKI: how do you get user to trust that a public key is for the right person? In the classic PGP/GPG web of trust you do things like "key signing parties" and physical in real life interactions and deciding your threshold for how far you trust the friend of my friend signed this key. In the Keybase model you can see that the key (or family of keys) are tied to a certain combo of Twitter, Facebook, HN, et al accounts/profiles and generally trust that the person with all those accounts is the person you are trying to communicate with.
And should they run dry, here are some more invites:

Edit: 25 people from HN now have a keybase account.

Should anyone care, you can use:

$.makeArray($("input.form-control[value]").map(function() {return $(this).val();})).join(" ")

To produce a list of your active invites from the invite page.
That's because in most countries that take refugees, average people own no capital (except maybe housing, an illiquid and unproductive asset) and can only contribute labor for income, resulting in a situation where "jobs" are a scarce resource. Now, if ownership of capital were more widespread, refugee labor would be much more welcome.
Like Bigrio I'm suspicious of free VPNs. For $5 https://privatepackets.io/ sets up a private VPN for you on digitalocean. Ongoing costs (digitalocean droplet) is $5 as well.
>Is there an intellectual leader to this 'movement'?

No, there are just people thinking for themselves.
Would love to hear more details about what happened.
In an inner ring burb, or a New England town, you don't have to enroll the kid in anything to avoid obesity. Mine has to climb down and back up an 80 foot hill any time she wants to go to the library or ice cream shop.
> The problems of the PC laptops, on the other hand, are by design, and not fixable that easily.

Huh? Do you mean the physical design or something about the software?