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Ask HN: Learning resources for a noob?
Hi everyone,

I understand this question has been asked before but can't find an acceptable article. Maybe I'm setting my standards too high. If there are any resources that you know of or an article that I should be looking at then please let me know. It would be highly appreciated.

Being relatively new to this coding lark and have only brushed over basic HTML, CSS, etc. in the past - although untouched for 2 years now - I'm now wanting to get back on the horse and perhaps expand into C# territory.

Thanks in advance,

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What about London is it that makes the Model S untenable? (I used to live in London, but didn't have a car then.)

And, assuming you can afford it and you don't need a station wagon, why on earth would you not buy a 7 series/S-class/A8? They are, after all, some of the very best luxury cars in the world. If it's good enough for royalty, why isn't it sufficient for you?
But the reason for it is that EU countries are giving extremely generous tax breaks for EV buyers. In some countries you literally pay half the price of an Audi A8 for a Tesla, even though they both have the same sticker price. Those benefits are ending in many places too, so while right this second buying a Tesla S might seem like a smart choice financially, it's not going to last forever. Model 3 might change that once again by being positioned in the different part of the market entirely, but it's still long time away.
My sister tried one a year or two ago, and loved it.

She ended up not ordering it because the delivery time was too long (6 months maybe? can't remember)

So it appears to me the i3 sells really well - BMW just can't (or doesn't want to) keep up with demand.

My sister drives a Golf hybrid now.
A more likely cause for these results is that there has been an effort in the last decades to dumb down education at every level.

Not necessarily in order to lower the average level of education but to battle perceived unfairness or racism within education.

The underlying assumption is that if you find that some minority or group is not represented equally in any area of education then it is a sign that there must be institutionalized racism involved.

This process is still ongoing to this day, currently everyone is focusing on STEM fields and asking the question: Why do so few women choose to enter these fields?

You can bet that the quality of education you are going to get in 20 years in these fields will be worse in order to attract women to fields that they are generally less interested in. (if Mathematics is the reason for that then they will simply remove it or reduce it significantly)

Edit: It is by the way more likely that changes in the education system (of which there have been plenty) cause different results in education than attributing it to something like contraception.
Uh no. I have recently written an article about this very subject. Heinlein seems militaristic in the "starship troopers" but he effectively kills two of the concepts militarists love: the chosen one myth - that the soldiers, best ones at least, are chosen ones and they should be smart and brilliant and be a Nietzschean superman, and discipline myth - that because the soldiers are disciplined, they are better than civilians. You can read it in the chapters where Rico is inducted into Officer Training School, where Major Reed is giving the Moral Philosophy lesson again.

Actually, if you take a look at the man's literary career I think he is just experimenting with the "what is best ruling regime?" "Starship troopers" is a possible answer, so is the "moon is a harsh mistress" and I even see the "Stranger in a Strange Land" in this light.

My two cents.
This might be slightly off-topic, but maybe some here will find it interesting.

My girlfriend and I have stopped using hormone-based contraceptives, for nearly 2 years now, I believe. The main reason is that the hormone-stuff had really messed up my girlfriend, and at some point, we were actually starting to get worried about not having the opportunity of having kids.

When we met, she had an IUD (with hormonal stuff), which was uncomfortable to me, so she switched to an implant. The next nearly two years were fairly difficult because she would have extremely irregular periods (for up to two months at a time, in one case), and it messed with our relationship in more ways than one.

At our request, her gynæcologist removed the implant, and she switched to the pill. This helped stabilise things, but it was still messed up. In the end, we decided to stop any hormone-based contraceptive, and decided to use condoms. Yes, it's annoying, and everything you want, but it's still a lot better than whatever we had before.

The reason I'm telling this, is that I don't really understand the taboo around it. It's a normal part of a normal relationship---there's no point in pretending we're farting rainbows all the time. I'm also fairly annoyed at the fact that women have to put up with this, whereas us men get the sweet end of the deal. We don't have to pay a luxury tax for something which really is essential for most women, we don't have to worry about whether something works or not, or whether getting laid is worth having trouble at that level for the next 6 months. Note that I'm saying "oh poor women, you have to deal with periods," I'm only discussing the technical/monetary aspects of this.

I understand that there's very little interest by most men to have a male contraceptive, but I for one would love to have one. Not necessarily hormone-based, and preferably not something that requires having that part of my body be approached by a scalpel. I seem to remember reading an article some time ago explaining why there was no male contraceptive available to those who wanted it. If I remember correctly, according to the labs/vendors, there was simply no market for it. The products existed, but either they're making too much money out of the female variants, or the male variants simply wouldn't sell.

In any case, the situation is messed up.
Really needs to be a business certificate that dovetails with a trade - so you can manage your business while you work your trade. Your body can wear out pretty fast with hard labor so you need to start your own business at some point.
They own Here maps, have laser-mapped all of Europe, work on self-driving cars, and own several european Uber-competitors and have stakes in many smaller taxi companies.

I’m sure they’ll find a way to survive.
I wouldn't be surprised by Prius owners going Tesla, the Prius already was the "comfortable progressive" car of choice with its hybrid efficiency, so a Tesla is the natural progression. Volvo has similar brand connotations, making cars for people who care more about features and comfort than status symbol.

Hummer, Jaguar and Maserati though, those are further away from the natural "ideological core" of potential Tesla owners.
Too bad I can't send it from anywhere on Earth. Which is probably a more common use case.
He said that approach "d" (implement every implementation) has the problem that "It will take a lot of time to implement all configuration files properly".

Somehow that problem disappears when using his approach, and I think that's even bigger problem than the download size of the dependencies.
They needed to capture attention first, and also make sure they don't damage their brand if they mess up their first generation e-vehicle. I think this strategy makes sense.

I know what you mean though :-)
A great bit of kit, but totally unusable for me because of a lack of agent fowarding support[1]. :(

1: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
Plants are adapting to higher CO2 levels
Obviously the token can be stolen,too. Also,people all the time voluntarily allow others to use their tokens if convenience demands it.

Your comment is also a good example of how the concern 'people can't manage privkeys well' keeps getting handwaved away, with sad results.
Is there anywhere we can read (about) this response?
What do you not find serious about it?. The author is sighting actual examples of behavior that they find concerning. Do you doubt the veracity of these examples? Also Why does it matter where activism is conducted from?
I meant right in a different sense, but you provide a fairly accurate description about what is going on. US and some EU members and China are pretending Budapest memorandum does not exist, which serves them well in the short term, but will obviously have severe consequences in the long term.
In the last 70 years we've focused a lot on not having failures, spending all the money it took.

Now, the focus is somewhere else (namely reducing the cost per launch, in order to get us a lot more to space).
That's impressive. I guess that's the difference between a modern, progressive constitution written over 2 centuries ago versus one written 50 years ago.

Semantic point, do you differentiate between a "human" and "person"? This may be a translation issue, but to me there's no practical difference between the two.
>Forbidding any custom fonts is a non-option;

Actually it's a very valid option, works well for 99.9% of the websites, and fuck designers.
They had some excellent ones too. Rover 600 & 75 were good cars. Many major manufacturers have had life-threatening failures in recent years resulting in recalls. Some surviving brands were much, much worse than Rover Group at quality. Lancia still exist, Alfa Romeo exist. Fiat in the 1980s, no thanks, I'm not paying for rust.
Fair enough, but most people I know that would be interested in a fully electric car are just turned off by how the 'i' series look. I your point, they could have just made them look somewhat nicer.
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> But Porsche, Audi, BMW and Mercedes are ready to respond

But are they? It’s repeated every time this topic comes up: They supposedly have ready-to-manufacture blueprints stashed away in some dusty cabinet. But what about ramping up actual production? What about building production lines?

You can’t just pull a blueprint out of a drawer and cars start rolling from the production line the next day. All I see (from an outside perspective) is the big three (BMW, Mercedes, VW) failing to prepare for the future.

Of course, customers aren’t really demanding it either. Everybody just complains that electric car X cannot travel 1000 km with a single charge and then goes on to buy a Diesel.
You should read "Only Forward" by Michael Marshall Smith. He seems to be fairly unknown, but I love his work. Based on your descriptions I think you would too.
The entire governing board.

Multiple Major Exit Node operators

The old bridge node operator

Those are just the people that have spoken publicly about their exit. Many others (given the nature of Tor) are not going to come forward publicly. They simply stop contributing and disappear.

Jacob was a distraction and excuse.

A Distraction so people would focus on that instead of what was happening with the project

A excuse to implement massive Social Justice and what I believe to be long term Pro Government reforms/policies within the project.
I highly advise the original Twilight Zone.

This show was miles ahead...
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Goes hand in hand with the oversubscribed university system.
this one should be much higher on the list. hope more people will upvote it
I am ignorant of the German constitution, but legally there are more "persons" than humans.

The most famous example is the concept of corporate personhood.

See also :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood
> I think we need more libraries/widgets in order for us to design native looking Android/iOS apps.

So still the same "do your own QML mimic of native widgets"?
Why would you need agent forwarding? It's a really dangerous feature.
What if doctors could learn procedures using Augmented Reality?
This doesn't reflect my experience. We moved some monte-carlo implementations from CPU to GPU starting around the time this article was written.

The CPU implementations had had significant optimisation work done on them because it had to run on 10k+ cores so even small improvements had significant cost implications.

The GPU implementation ran about 40-50x faster for the same accuracy. We didn't need that speed up in practice so we traded some of it for more paths.
Take a look at the works of Nicholas Felton http://feltron.com/ especially his reports of his years of personal data like http://feltron.com/FAR09.html
These might give you ideas.
It's useful in a corporate environment where you have tens to hundreds of machines you need to use, and all of them are trusted.

EDIT: "a really dangerous feature" is accurate though. For example if all of the staff have root access on a staging machine, then anybody can steal the ssh-agent of another user on the staging machine, and use it to login as that user on production machines.
The reason work continues is largely monetary -- Illumos/OpenSolaris contains compelling technology that the storage industry is ready to pay for. That's not to say that many contributors don't love their work, but it's not a templeOS situation.

(I'm an Opensolaris contributor/enthusiast from some years ago, and worked at Nexenta.)
> their sales are unchanged or even increasing since 2012 when the Model S was launched.

You need to look at 2014/2015 really, which is when the Model S started being produced in decent numbers.

The Model S outsold most other 'large luxury' vehicles in the US in 2015, including the Audi A7 and A8 combined, and the BMW 6 and 7 series combined, and the Mercedez S-class.

http://gas2.org/2016/02/15/tesla-model-s-outsells-mercedes-b...

edit: re: rates of change: Model S sales increased 50% during 2015, Audi A7,A8, BMW 6,7 Mercedez S all down 5% or more.
tl;dr:

* A blockchain is never the answer in the general case.

* smart contracts require programmers to not only write bug-free code the first time (c.f. The DAO), not only make sure bugs in the underlying platform don't bite them (c.f. The DAO), but make sure the circumstances the contract runs in never change.

* even Vitalik Buterin notes that smart contracts are an equivalent problem to strong AI in the general case https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract...

* the actual problem you state here is entirely to do with human perceptions and how they feel about the quality of the work. I assume you're looking for a cheaper alternative to argument and disagreement. But ultimately you're looking at lawyers, courts and/or some sort of human-mediated arbitration just from your problem as stated.
You're absolutely correct. I was thinking of what is called natural personhood. But I'm curious specifically how the German constitution differentiates the two.
True, but it would at least give them plausible deniability that they couldn't hand over plaintext messages, even if they wanted to.
The lack of scrollback support has made mosh pretty useless to me. I like many of its other features, but in order for it to replace ssh for me it needs to look like it's just printing text to stdout. (Yes, this is why I also tend to avoid using screen and tmux for anything other than holding open a remote shell session.)

Will have to check out 1.3...
This kinda makes me remember this quote from "Primer"

You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty?
[to Aaron, who shakes his head]
They take them out and shoot them.
Sorry for the off topic but just wanted to say that I get the best book recommendations ever from HN.

Every single time there's a thread about an author/theme I end up reading some of the books mentioned and all of them are gems I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Thank you all for this!
privacytools.io imo has the best documentation of which add-ons and about config settings you should use while using Firefox for better privacy.
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> but to me there's no practical difference between the two.

Well, just in case Lt.Cmdr. Data ever comes to Germany ;)
But he made it sound as if that was their "well-thought-out strategy", when it was just a reaction to all the bad press Tesla was getting for its "Autopilot." The move was out of fear more than anything.

They did create the "we're making self-driving cars" ad in the first place, didn't they?
Am I missing something? This just appears to be a link to buy some guy's ebooks.
It's just too big IMO. Hard to park, will get scraped all the time.
Extraordinarily useful on an internal corporate network, especially when you're scp'ing remote->remote and so on.
This comes off as pretty out of touch with reality.

> [Electric car] that is much safer

It's way too early to tell, we need a decade more of statistics before you can say that. As of now, there are many gasoline cars that have better safety records than the Model S; in terms of fatalities per mile it is only on par with the NHTSA average.

> [Electric cars] that unlike gasoline cars is upgraded for free on a regular basis after you purchased it

Gasoline cars have similarly complex ECUs and entertainment systems and are already being updated for free (usually at regular services).

> [Electric car] has much more luggage space

The Model X "SUV" proves that electric cars with decent range are so far restricted to the "liftback" body shape. Let me know when there is an electric equivalent of a Chevy Suburban or Volvo V70 (which really have much more luggage space).

> unlike gasoline cars, [electric cars] can be upgraded modularly for small investments

You've seriously never heard of the $300 billion-a-year market for aftermarket car parts? Never heard of the SEMA show? Gasoline cars are much better suited for modular upgrades: everything from better air filters to chiptuning to a bigger turbo is easily available and can be done by anyone with freely available tools in their garage. Unlike electric cars, which are inherently much less hackable.

> They haven't integrated solar in the cars yet to further kill any range anxiety.

You clearly haven't done the basic math here: a solar panel the size of a car roof will take several weeks to charge an electric car.

> Any day Tesla can license their battery technology and superchargers

Tesla does not own the IP for the battery tech nor the superchargers
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There is a difference between "taking an exception" and shouting someone down

Here are some example in everyday real life that have occurred recently and been recorded, situations like I link below happen every day, and are often never recorded. There are also HUGE numbers of people that self censor so as to not draw that attention of the rabid SJW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMT3vuSQk3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeNJFz-WCZs

It should be pointed out, that the people shooting the video believed they were in the right, believe they where showing the world a bigot, or racist, or misogynist. They believe their actions is the proper reaction to encountering such a person. So the question I posit to you is. Do you agree with their actions, would you agree with their actions if the target of their rage would have actually been a racist, or misogynist?

If you believe these are proper reactions, and the persons in the video are simply "calling out" behavior they dislike, then you prove my point that you are infact a SJW and can not identify them because of that fact.

The people highlighted in the video are I admit extreme example, but not too extreme. SJW is a raising trend, it started probably 10 years or so ago in Universities, and is spread on a massive scale to HR dept's in major companies, and to every day interactions like the ones shown in the video.

It is not a conspiracy, it is reality.
mosh $REMOTE -- tmux new -ADs $SESSION
A strange answer, but I find a lot of fan games and game mods good examples of this. You've got an individual (or perhaps even an entire team) working for free on a project that could potentially be shut down at any time with no expectation of any compensation other than other people enjoying their work.

For example, the SMW ROM hack Brutal Mario (whatever you may say about the level design quality) is an insane technical achievement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INa41RSwiCc

The fact some random Japanese guy no one knows the identity of spent 10 years turning a single game into a strange crossover title with hundreds of technical gimmicks based on other games (including some uses of mode 7, 3D, etc) is nuts. A team of 20 or more people working full shifts might have trouble replicating a lot of the stuff in this game.

Or how about Project M? Before it was shut down, they basically turned Smash Bros Brawl into a clone of Melee with new mechanics, stages, characters, graphics and music, pretty much everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcJHZCuaG84

Or heck, Mushroom Kingdom Fusion in general. It may be an extremely buggy, often poorly balanced game, but damn it's a crazy ambitious premise with a level of variety not seen in pretty much the entire industry outside of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD7VWxHGU4o

300 levels, around 10 or 20 characters with their own play style and mechanics, about a hundred power ups, thousands of enemies and bosses, even more random gimmicks and level mechanics and a massive amount of graphic and music from everything you can think of. All by what? Less than 20 people in their spare time?

Either way, the fact people can work on stuff like this purely in their free time and ending up dedicating years of their lives to a project that can be on par with a commercial one without any means of making money off of it... that's got to be pretty impressive.

And I haven't even mentioned that guy whose spent so long on his mod that Duke Nukem Forever actually started and finished production while it was still in development. With said project still being ongoing and unlikely to finish within the next few decades.
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So the reason you won't get one of the big German cars is the same as the reason why you won't get a Model S?
Gotta get rid of that encrusted carbon and iron. Human bodies don't deal with those elements half as well as they do short steel spikes.
Got it (really didn't knew this use of "they").

Reading back, perhaps "the player" would be better than "they", if it was just one player having problems.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, if you are in say, your 40s/50s and out of work, good luck trying to get yourself a trade - apprenticeships are still the province of the young and the government won't help retrain you either. This to me is as big a problem with respect to vocational training as encouraging all school leavers to go to university to get a degree. As people live longer we can't continue to ignore those who would retrain into a trade.
Slaves need food. It doesn't make sense to have slaves for leaf waving and laundry today because machines and electricity are cheaper.
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Sounds like the obvious solution here is to provide a blessed and convenient way for one person to allow another to use their tokens in a limited fashion.

What's the actual use case here? What are people wanting to do when they do this?
Phages are much more targetted and specific than an antibiotic. They can be developed for specific bacterial targets (e.g. listeria, e.coli, etc) and they are in fact used in the food industry for such purposes, but this same specificity in bacterial targets also seems to mean that they are less applicable in general medical applications.
Just Mercedes’ luxury cars combined sold more than the Tesla S.
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The German OEMs offer smaller, city-usable cars (and electric cars), just not with enough battery capacity.