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> People hate you if you are academically gifted.

It is somehow simultaneously sad and infuriating that it is not only socially accepted but seemingly ok to be _proud_ to be stupid in mathematics, computers and science. Try that with social intelligence, knowledge of popular culture or your capability/interest in keeping your home tidy, and the _best_ you can hope is a stamp "weirdo" in your forehead.
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Is anyone eagerly awaiting JDK9?
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IMO the whole idea of "potential" that can be "wasted" is toxic. As soon as you feel yourself falling behind -- which you always will -- that idea that you've wasted your potential shows up to make you feel bad.

This inevitably drives people toward easier kinds of achievement like awards, promotions, and degrees. But a lot of real progress happens outside systems like this! I think it's valuable to have smart people working on stuff for its own sake, not chasing any kind of achievement.
They suspected there was a free water passage because the coast was well known on both side. But the interior of the land was terra incognita, and that was the point of the expedition : finding the passage and going through it if it existed.

However, when Roald Admunsden crossed for the first time the North West passage a few years after the Franklin expedition was lost, it was not by boat, but with sleds...

From my understanding, given the size of the Terror and Erebus, the Franklin expedition could not have crossed the NW passage anyway at that time.
A flight search engine that I would be interested in:

The craziest routing.

Instead flying for USD 700 A->Destination or A->B>Destination
Fly A->C>D>E>F>G>Destination
That's probably a good approach. Still, when my certificates expire (which makes the provisioning profiles invalid), that alone will take hours or days to fix. So even if it's left in a completely untouched environment certificates expire after a year or two and I cannot recompile the project without a lot of work.
You misunderstood me

> "Tidal forces cause a lot of stress on celestial bodies",

Correct

> but not with the Earth-Moon system because the Moon's
"rotational energy was spent".

Not now. But the Moon is still stretched tidally (and permanently in that position)

It causes a lot of stress when the tidal pull happens while the body rotates (w.r.t their main "puller" - the Moon rotates, but not relative to the Earth)

And this pulling/stretching is what caused the Moon to stop rotating

Maybe Wikipedia explains it better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
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http://www.maa.org/math-competitions/usamo-1999-winners

s of America Mathematical Olympiad

(USAMO) held on April 27, 1999 are as follows:

Reid W. Barton - Arlington, MA

Gabriel D. Carroll - Oakland, CA

Lawrence O. Detlor - New York, NY

Stephen E. Haas - Sunnyvale, CA

Po-Shen Loh - Madison, WI

Alexander B. Schwartz - Bryn Mawr, PA

Paul A. Valiant - Belmont, MA

Melanie E. Wood - Indianapolis, IN
Question is how much you're looking to spend, really... I use the Yeti by Blue and never had any complaints (not very portable)
It's not like this is any sort of secret, or even new. As such, it won't make waves as it's the status quo.

https://scholarsandrogues.com/2007/06/25/bushs-patronage-app... compares the ambassadorial political appointees of George W. Bush to that of Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush.

> Many of George W. Bush’s nominees have been significant donors to his election campaigns or have personal and political connections to the president.

> Consider the U.S. ambassador to Canada, David H. Wilkins. (No relation to me.)

> President Bush nominated him in 2005. He’s been a South Carolina state legislator. He’s a friend of President George H.W. Bush and raised more than $200,000 for President George W. Bush in the 2004 election. Ambassador Wilkins and his immediate family contributed $33,050 to Republicans over the course of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 election cycles, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Apparently, he’d only been to Canada once — 30 years before his appointment — as part of military service.

> President Bush nominated Michael M. Wood as ambassador to Sweden in 2006. He knew President Bush, too. He used to ride mountain bikes with the president and attended Yale with him. He was a fraternity brother of the president. Ambassador Wood made his money by founding Hanley Wood, a company that produces magazines for the construction industry.

> Ambassador Wood’s predecessor, former Texas state Senator Teel Bivins, ambassador from 2004 to 2006, was a Bush Pioneer in 2000 and 2004. (Pioneers raised at least $100,000 for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. In 2004, Rangers and SuperRangers raised at least $200,000 or $300,000 respectively. This system was designed by Karl Rove, President Bush’s senior political adviser.)

> Many other appointees nominated by President Bush followed this pattern of financial or political familiarity.

That list continues, followed by links to criticism like “Speaking Out: Political appointees: a cost-benefit analysis.” and "Alan D. Berlind, a retired Foreign Service officer writing in American Diplomacy, thinks such patronage appointments to diplomatic posts do not serve the nation well." with a quote and link to why.
Don't forget the bus ticket to get to the Apple Store to buy them in the first place.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/4b4fd5146c04c9c284094...
Over about 20 years of Java I've personally had to deal with JBuilder, Visual J++, Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans and probably some I've forgotten. I don't understand where all the Eclipse hate comes from - it's fast, responsive, extensible and works well. Looks elegant to me too, where is that vitriol coming from in the article?

I've certainly seen configurations of Eclipse that are abysmal (Rational Application Developer) and/or frameworks that make things unbearable (moreso in the past). But it's always felt more usable and productive than anything else I've tried. I don't understand the passion I see from IntelliJ users either... it's about as ugly and unintuitive to me as NetBeans was. Perhaps it's just what you're used to.

One positive people tend to raise in support of IntelliJ IDEA is it's refactoring support... I've honestly found Eclipse's to be better. Normally I wouldn't defend anything so heavily backed by IBM, but objectively it's far better than anything else as far as I've found.
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It would be really nice to have more information about the 'mesh-based' networking that just looks like web tradffic etc...

I'll try it later but am unable to investigate at present.
quick question - did you consider using jruby ? I see on your docs you mention that you use certain libs with native extensions... but 20 mil should go a long way towards resolving those.

how about building out a single jar based deployment based on jruby ? For example, mingle is built on jruby (ruby on rails) and packaged as a easy to install jar file [1]

[1] https://www.thoughtworks.com/mingle/news/2015/02/18/Forty-Mi...

jruby will be higher performing and will use overall lesser memory in general (yes.. the jvm takes up quite a bit of RAM during startup).
Running a jar in production using jetty is a breeze.
A lot of them are earning low wages because they have PhD and are professors
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You can make such a connection and establish a mesh network, most people are just too lazy or technically unsophisticated to pull it off apparently. Centralization is a consequence of that fact that people do not actually want to maintain their own infrastructure, they just want it to work while they get back to the rest of their life.
The kickstarter campaign says the USB microphone is their $200K stretch goal, but only 8 days to go, how likely are they going to reach $200K? Does anyone know this company?
OFF-TOPIC:

I am the only one who is not that happy that Java is so popular?

I don't even know where that feeling come from.
The other day I helped a new iOS dev to get going, we signed him up for our company Apple Developer account and then tried to log him in to XCode. We got an error like 'your session timed out'. We tried everything we and Google could come up with to no avail. Next morning it just worked.

Sure, an anecdote. But my experience with XCode and provisioning so far is that I stumble on different, unexpected weirdnesses like these, over and over again.
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Why are Adults so busy?
My company is starting a few new bigger projects and we're building it on java8 right now keeping in mind that we will make architectural changes once java9 is released and rewrite some parts to use jigsaw. Classpath mechanism will be finally deprecated.
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FWIW, there's some good discussion around this in Sam Altman's interview with Jessica Livingston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFOC-cgIWaY).
OpenBSD is also popular for its security. OpenSSL was initially part of OpenBSD. They've had very few security holes in like 20 years.
Is the name a reference to Command and Conquer? Got some flashbacks from the logo http://i.imgur.com/riegcsv.png
I don't know the answer, but there was an antisemitic campaign after the war (eg 52' Night of the Murdered Poets, campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans" etc).

Shostakovich Symphony No.13 (Babi Yar) and the poem there used, Yevtushenko's Babiyy Yar was a protest of both soviet antisemitism and the government's refusal to recognise the site as a holocaust location (Jewish identity of the victims being denied; they were generalized as Soviet instead), even in the early 60s.
Plus... I wonder how many of the sales are real :-)

Scarcity and social proof in one hit, awesome. But who knows what really got sold?
That argument baffled me as well. Using the 'dictionary size' defined by the distinct set of characters as an input for the entropy calculation seems absurd, unless the attacker has a way to know the dictionary, for instance because they know a login can be made using a numeric keypad alone.

Also, with that definition, a password 'abcde' would have much higher "entropy" than 'aabab', meaning that this measure penalizes actual randomness, where repetition and char-reuse are very likely.
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Not really, getting to deploy Java 8 projects is still a big issue.

Most enterprise deployments are limited by what the IT guys know and are willing to accept on their servers.
Maybe HN should do deal with WSJ etc. to show HN users just the paywalled articles that get on the front page of HN. You then take out a single (cheaper) HN subscription that gets you over the paywall on all the major sites.
Police union resists body cams, judge orders Boston cops to wear them
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The weird thing is...after having that brought to his attention, he reasserts his error.
Wow, this looks cool and very complete, the must have put quite some effort in this. I've been 'stuck' on Objective-C for a while now, knowing I should 'keep up' and learn Swift. This could be a nice, fun way to pick up Swift in my 'spare' time.
"In a real free market, everything tends toward commodity pricing."

No.

This assumes people only buy products based on price and would choose cheaper alternatives.

Doesn't look like this to me, e.g. I'm a consultant, I base my pricing on value not cost (what is my cost anyway?) and people pay on value. Other consultants are not undercutting my prices, for various reasons, e.g. because reducing prices would diminish value perception. I'm not a commodity and never will be (perhaps if AI makes great leaps forward).

Same happens with Apple devices which are far from cost based pricing. Assuming others have the same product - I don't want to get into quality, brand recognition etc. just pretend - if they base their products on cost and undercut Apple, they would move out of the luxury/premium segment. One could argue Apple pricing is high because of an 'Apple monopoly on Apple devices', but the same works for any premium segment (Nike and Adidas premium shoes for example).

Beside the premium argument there are other examples where "In a real free market, not everything tends towards commodity pricing" - in particular only commodities do.

(Interesting side note: Read about value maps, evolution of products towards commodities and strategies from Simon Wardley)
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Just needs integration with popular game engines like UE and unity3d, at the moment it mostly works with 8bit game emulators
It started last year with Xcode 7.
It makes a lot of sense, though. Like many new languages Swift was invented hastily and without much care with the main goal of locking in developers and preventing cross-platform development. If Apple made major releases backwards-compatible, this would invariably turn the language into a big mess in the long run.

This way, the language can evolve into a fine language with many features from Algol-68 and the usual semi-popular C-ish syntax, and Apple can continue to ensure that developers have to maintain a separate codebase for their "apps" that is useless anywhere else.
I thought about something like this for autonomous cars. The game engine could simulate all the sensors in a car. Then it would be possible to use this as training data. Would be fun to create a racing game out of it to let different algorithm compete against each other.
Does this already exist? Google should have something like this, but probably not freely available.
I am happy that Java is popular.

I know it since Sun introduced it and it was a saner experience than C++ back in the day, when each compiler implemented their own vision of the ongoing working standard.

There are only three things I don't like about Java, proper AOT compilation is only available in commercial JDKs and lack of value types, and use of @Overrides annotation instead of adding a proper keyword.

The first two will hopefully get addressed in Java 10, assuming Oracle doesn't change their minds about the language.
Well, in many cases a good icon can be used for many purposes.

For example, what does a whale have to do with a service like Docker? Or what does a python snake have to do with a programming language?
Other companies were offering this service anyway. It's only natural AirBnB would want to provide that service themselves and take a cut.

You're complaining about how things scale. If there's an opportunity to make money by doing more of something, people will pile in and do more of it. That's how markets work.
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It depends on where the pressure is places. If the pressure is placed on kids, sure. If it's placed on schools, that's not toxic. The school system in most of the US works under an attitude that the smart kids will do okay, and don't need anything extra. Even gifted and talented programs are fading fast.

The truth is those school system are toxic, abusive torture to someone smart. There were plenty of smart kids I knew -- some smarter than me -- who got horrible grades going through one of these school. Many of them did not, in any real sense, succeed.

Imagine being placed in a room, today, and forced to listen to lectures on what you already know, and be given menial make-work tasks, like adding big numbers and copying letters, and doing that for hours each day. Some people are resilient enough to survive that. Others get pretty broken by it.
Me too, specially on Android where we still need to survive with Java 6 and cherry picked pieces from Java 7 and Java 8.

Most likely it will never see 100% support for Java 8, or anything else that comes afterwards.
Google's m.o. is not predicated on good taste and foresight but old brute see what sticks--rows of blindsided people throwing--on the wall.
Child of immigrant parents who didn't let him watch TV, and who socialized with likeminded families.
> These high prices support innovation, they argue—not just for America, but for the world. But it is unclear if firms’ profits need be so high to sustain research.

Thank fuck someone finally says that this isn't mostly about the US subsidising the rest of the world. (A nonsensical claim when you look at how much drug companies spend on marketing).
I find mine fantastic for creating, it just depends what you want to create. A few days ago I got a programming assignment and wrote half of it in Pythonista on my phone on the train going home. I play roleplaying games and wrote up 95% of my current campaign notes, rules and reference sheets on my iPad. My daughter sketches on it with the pencil and uses it as a digitiser with the Mac. These things are fantastic creation devices.

Sure, some people don't like onscreen keyboards and such, but everybody has their preferences and comfort zones especially when it comes to creative activities. It's a very personal activity. But at this stage unequivocally saying mobile devices are not good for creating is just plain flat out provably false.
> they do not know exactly why some highly intelligent people do not achieve much

My guess: an intelligent reaction to life is to value things that can't be measured
The hands do not just need to be agile to manipulate objects, they also need to have an opposable finger.

Racoons' "hands" (more like paws) do not have any.
Feral mink are a serious threat to other, more endangered species of small animal: http://www.scotsman.com/news/invasive-mink-killing-native-wi...
> Even gifted and talented programs are fading fast.

What's the evidence that G&T programmes achieve better academic or life outcomes?
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Another great alternative in the 2FA client space is Authy (free of charge).
This guy in Spain created his own internet infrastructure:
https://backchannel.com/forget-comcast-heres-the-diy-approac...
It's been running successfully for years and has grown quite a bit.
It would've been nice to see some kind of animation on the code itself during the run, showing which commands it has completed.
So if not espresso, what kind of coffee do Americans drink, but that's any good?

I'm just very used to italian-style espresso in the cafés and turkish at home, as that's the cultural norm around here (croatian adriatic coast; basically ex-venetian colony ;) ).

I'd like to give other styles a shot, but only provided they're worth a damn. Can't say I've been impressed by whatever the muck they serve at McDonald's is, or by home drip machines. Nor instant ofc...
Disagree.

There are tradeoffs in non-concurrent data structures too. Do you want a boolean vector that aligns to word size, or one that conserves memory and fits in cache? Pushed to the limit, nearly ever non-primitive part of the library has compromises.

Don't let great be the enemy of good. Concurrent collections are a common need. Include some reasonable implementations with compromises. No, you won't answer every use case, but you can be better than `Mutex<HashMap<K,V>>` and still provide something solid.
A lot of European cities are trying to crackdown on Airbnb used in housing without permission:

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/06/european-cities-crack...
Not in this words. It's closer to: aim higher, follow your dreams, figure out what you want to do in life, good education now will give you good salary in the future. In practice they easily translate in some mind to the statements you mentioned.

Also 35k is still a huge amount that will follow you for decades for some people.
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The fact that the sea can and will destroy almost anything we (or another sentient species) can manufacture, seems to be a factor as well.
it's humbling. With a small community, if you have an idea, you can create a pull request and change the shape of the ecosystem. It's not that hard to create the definitive library, with a few weeks or months of effort.

In a medium community, you can shape discussion. It's still possible to have a lot of influence without tons of effort.

In a large community, you're up against really smart people who are paid to solve problems that can take weeks to simply understand.

You could hack up golang library for web handling that's somewhat novel and get traction. Java? Tomcat has tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of professional hours thrown at it.
Interesting to contrast this with articles that paint the various delivery/cooking/cleaning/task runner services as a kind of mom-in-a-box that real adults shouldn't need.

Maybe being a real adult is an unwise investment of time if you can afford to do without it.
I've heard a few comedians say they developed their humour as a shield to deflect attention away from failings in some other part of their life, often academic struggles.
I, like many others most likely, thought this was gonna be a cool way to present your resume, or someone with a demo of theirs in Unreal Engine... Still, I was not disappointed by the plugin.
Hey there, one of the authors here.

If you like, or even don't like the product; we'd most appreciate if you took just a minute giving us feedback so we can improve.

We're also happy to answer any comments!

Thanks!
iPad Mini 2 has 1 GB of RAM where the original had half as much. Typically Apple has only deprecated old iOS device models from new OS support due to hardware requirements.
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Any specific reason you've used pascal ? I thought that language got extinct long ago.
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With automatic provisioning/specific profile mode, they definitely removed a lot of the sharp edges when it comes to provisioning, but they also removed all of the flexibility. It definitely feels like Xcode on training wheels with no option to remove them unless you rely on a now deprecated feature set.
When I was at JCVI we tried to negotiate a plan to do a full genome sequencing of these foxes.

One of the more interesting discoveries - random piebaldness in animals (holsteins, pintos, salt and pepper dogs & cats) is almost exclusively found in domesticated animals and is probably related to genetic shifts in the expression of enzymes used to make dopamine, which is also the chemical precursor for melanin.
but its only relevant in the disaster-recovery situation anyhow; should be quite decent for that use. And otherwise, you have regular Internet access, and its hardly realistic a small hacker community can do anything to replace it.
You don't have to persuade others. Let them be. Just do your own thing.

Forced work doesn't have forced result. It just doesn't work.

Let things happen naturally in your life: water finds its own level. Not have a girlfriend? Probably because you don't see enough people daily. If you keep working on what you love, you'll meet people with the same taste, and you'll click with them way more than you would, if you wanted to force yourself to have a girlfriend (who doesn't care about what you do anyway).

Admittedly, in some jobs you don't see enough girls and women around (remember all those jokes about programmers?), while in some other jobs like dancing, theatre, music, etc. you'll see many. This improves your chance of having a great relationship with (mostly) more beautiful girls. Now I'm not saying you should quit being a programmer and become a guitarist to attract girls, just know that at the end of the day, you can't have best of both worlds.
From the article:

"However, given the intimate nature of our products, the privacy and security of our customers’ data is of utmost importance to our company. Accordingly, we take concerns about customer privacy and our data practices seriously."

Just. Anonymise. Your. Data. At. Source.

This isn't that hard, come on. Your company's futur is at stake here.
Thanks.Yeti is professional but my RPI takes only $35, seems the kickstarter thing pretty handy, though I see no rewards for an independent microphone array.
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