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There's this http://imgur.com/a/livAB . They go around schools and get kids to work on simple electronics projects. Just started and only concentrating on primary schools, but I think they plan to expand to high schools(and thus engineering & programming) if they get funding.
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> I just started an internal IT tool ...

I think a lot of your ease of use comes from it being an internal IT tool. It's allowed to be clunky, you probably don't have many eyes from marketing/design/product on it-- and if they have seen it, they don't care too much.

Design & product want to be able to do some crazy stuff sometimes. And they're justified in that wish, our frameworks should work with anything that is possible in a browser. Your protests of: "oh well, that's not exactly how the Ember/Rails framework works.." will be met by glazed-over eyes. I really just agree with `erikpukinskis` here, but I think it's an important note that I think you'd have a really bad time if this app was consumer/client-facing.
Also, "finite state machine" has a very specific meaning, and that isn't just any machine that has a finite bunch of variables that you call state.

If React lets you execute arbitrary JavaScript code (which it does), then you're no longer using just a finite state machine, you're using a Turing machine, which is something different, and more powerful. It may have many finite state machines embedded in it, but to refer to a user interface as a finite state machine is like referring to a car as a pulley, just because the engine requires several pulleys to work, and ignoring all the rest of the engine and car. You can't make a car out of just pulleys, and you can't make a user interface out of just finite state machines.
There are plenty of budding entrepreneurs that will be unable to move new products because everyone is going to be afraid to buy without reviews
HL2 is good old FPS game.

There is no way in hell they could release it as a VR game and not as regular FPS game. That would be just really bad move from Valve.
I know. I was joking about a coincidence, as well as pointing out some of the largest response groups. The "tried X and would do it again" add up to over 100%, so some people had more than one tool for favored for different situations (or at least tolerated employer specified selections)

That said, it looks like React is doing well, and I bet on the wrong horse :-(
Right, which we need to solve through better ways of curating projects as a community. Browsing through 20 different options in npm trying to guess which ones are good is not a scalable way to build software.

The long term answer isn't to have fewer options or barriers to entry for new frameworks. The right solution is to make better ways to browse and select between all the options we have available.

Can we curate libraries algorithmically? Or do we need people to do it? (And if so what should their tools look like?)
The problem really isn't a function of the number of tools and frameworks in existence, but rather in the distribution of popularity among them.

Each ecosystem around a set of technologies essentially has its own "Herfindahl index"[1] of sorts. For example, the Ruby ecosystem's index might be fairly high, simply because Rails is so dominant (to the point where Ruby and Rails are often conflated by outsiders). On the other end of the spectrum, the current JavaScript landscape seems to have a fairly low index; there are a huge number of tools with very few clear winners at this point in time.

I suspect the best/healthiest ecosystem is probably somewhere in between that of Ruby and JavaScript. Rails may have ultimately hurt Ruby by its dominance, just as the current volatility in JavaScript tools seems to drive some people away (or at least add frustration).

Of course, I have no numbers to back any of this up - it's just an observation (one skewed by personal experience, no doubt).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl_index
I just tried out the Electrify [0] package on my codebase. It visualizes your webpack output. Very helpful!

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They should have published the designs and opened up the code so that others could build a platform around the products they have cancelled. Just allow anyone to make a Zune or a Band clone and if there is a platform that emerges later, get back into it.
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unicorn on each pageload
Good thing we like to deploy at 2AM.. oh wait..
On alcohol vs. Marijuana: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/beer-pot-ballot/ names a couple of instances.

Nearly 50% of federal prisoners are in on drug charges. For state it's 16%. There were 700k marijuana arrests in 2014 alone. It's not enough to explain our CJ issues by itself but it's very significant.

And the subject here is not just explicit incarceration, it's profit motive associated with the criminal justice system: the CJ system is explicitly designed (among other things) as a deterrent system. Even if the number of (white) Marijuana users incarcerated is small, keeping it illegal pushes people away from it and towards the more dangerous drug, alcohol, according to some alcohol industry spokespeople at least, as per that article and many others.

The concerns I have with the unions have nothing to do with their pushing for better funded and larger prisons to house the prisoners we do have (which they most certainly do as well). If you take the California example, they fought hard in favor of three strikes (and succeeded!), they were BY FAR (by 4x) the biggest donor to 'No on 5' in 08 (and succeeded!)

Prison labor data is difficult to find -- I assume large companies aren't eager to make it known they use prison labor, but either way I'm just having trouble finding references with any kind of hard data at all positive or negative from a reasonable source. Whole foods made news when it stopped using prison labor. The BP oil spill was cleaned up in large part by inmates, not paid contractors or employees. AT&T laid off their call center workers and hired inmates in the 90s.

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I want to remind everyone of the article we had some time ago about men failing out of society in the west because they are too lazy and play video games all they. Then predictable we get another article and then another about changing society to better fit women.

The outcome for men is determined by their choices (= they are subjects, actors). The outcome for women is determined by how society acts towards them (=they are passive objects). That dualism is objectifying of women.
Well, just avoid "Disthanasia", as I just learned of an actual Dis, which might be confused with Orcus, some deity of the underworld. I play linguist and get pushed down a Greek rabbit hole...
I confess to being one of the people who moans a lot, but this post might be right. I will try to moan less because the JS community has made a lot of progress. I guess the secret is not getting caught up in hype, and focusing on the real value.
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You may not realize that Central Europe is already awake and working.
The wealthier EU countries are active or in beta. They're all cheaper than the US (1.4% rather than 2.9% fees), fraud is lower in the EU.
This was one of the key factors for sure, however on the very first stage I've worked from office and still had three jobs or so. But this was total nightmare
As related by others, LTE has a less complicated backhaul network than the 3G networks (My experience is with WCDMA and WiMAX). Part of this is that 3G networks generally consist of several "servers" (in an as abstract sense as possible") and LTE significantly reduces this number.

Another significant factor is that LTE does not do circuit switched data/voice data and is exclusively packet switched and IP based. Of course, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) augments this slightly, but the general case is still true.

And in addition to this: going from microphone to speaker is much more than just the network. Digital coding of voice data, as an example, has been intensively researched and every single bit is squeezed to out to improve network capacity. They do source coding, to model the human voice and then apply to prediction algorithms to further reduce the bit rate. Recently, I heard a figure of 6.7 kb/s for voice data.

A good book, for the introduction on mobile networks almost literally from microphone to the entire network is From GSM to LTE-Advanced: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118861957...
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Its stupid but reminds me of something.

If we can build all of these SUVs, skyscraper, AIs, etc., why can't we build structures that separate people from cars so they can't get run over?
I flagged this because I don't think that this is actually interesting, will drive discussion, or in general meets the site's guidelines.

I furthermore don't think upvotes/downvotes playout well with this sort of content. It's obviously low-to-zero-value, but it attracts "hey, me too" type upvotes of people saying they observed this super obvious and dumb thing too. I think that factor ends up with a very low-quality post in general.

People who are interested in github will find out by using github and seeing a very clearly identifying unicorn with complete message and status page.

This provides no value or discussion. The likely post-mortem will be interesting, but until then, nothing to see here.
And let's not forget the rest of the Asia-Pacific region where we've been awake and working for the past 8+ hours :)
I do so as well, this may affect your growth opportunities, but you could look in the future without everyday fear running out of money and not being able to pay rent or kindergarten.
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One of the big selling points for mpesa - the mobile money service in Kenya - is that it allows transferring money made in the city back to family in the countryside without risking robbery on the travel home. (And makes the transfer much faster, too.) Reducing queues to prevent robbery is a great motivation for building and using the app.
I've probably implemented 300 CRUD projects, and I've never had a single angry person complaining about lack of access to historical data.

* I keep hourly backups of mysqldumps which can be restored in the case of catastrophic mistakes.

* I explain that this kind of data collection would be out of scope, and require significantly more budget.

Just because it's technically possible, it doesn't mean you need to do it. YAGNI.
Smells like the IT department of BigCo or public agencies to me. Been there, seen that. Literally terabytes of Debian binary packages transferred by hand with USB keys and disks between the dev network and the secure network.

Oh, and the USB serial numbers of the keys had to be whitelisted on the secure network. What a fun that one was. They didn't even stop doing that after I showed them that I could modify the firmware of some of the sticks using software from some obscure Russian site and thus bypass the control...

(Does anyone know by chance how that website is/was named? All I remember is that it held hundreds of manufacturer tools for all kinds of USB stick controllers/flash chips)
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Can you explain the part about injury recovery? Are you not allowed to take the medications because it would stress your kidney too much? (Also, do you mean NSAID drugs, or are there issues with pretty much all anti inflammatories?)

What are some of the things that you find yourself needing to advocate for yourself about? Isn't long term care just annual creatinine level tests (which looks like a simple blood draw)?
git push seems to be working still.
I noticed that for 1-3 minutes after the outage began (I was between pageloads and noticed the outage immediately) the 503 page did not load after waiting >30s. Afterwards the 503 page loads in < 1s.
I wonder what failover configuration Github uses, such that this delay would occur.
Very sad to see rusty nails comment being flagkilled. Guess dissent can't be tolerated this close to the election.
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Having debug symbols enabled should be the default in my opinion. Especially in a partially self-compiled distribution like NixOS. The threshold to submitting bugs should be low.

Unf I'm seeing a unicorn (GitHub fail whale) currently, so I cannot see the issue.
Estonia, Greece and Cyprus use the Euro, but unlike the other EU Euro countries aren't available on Stripe.

I haven't worked in finance, but as I understand it, the regulations are supposed to allow cross border businesses to operate. That's why the City of London banks area worried about leaving the EU and losing that right. The Eurozone especially has regulations to remove barriers to cross border payments.

https://www.paymill.com/ says it works for all of the EU except Cyprus. Perhaps an oversight?

This might be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
Even more creepy would be a national database of citizen value (determined by some unaccountable entity) that devices such as autonomous vehicles are required to query the moment they realize they're about to kill someone, and choose whatever option minimizes the combined citizen value of impacted lives.
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The title has the wrong date.
That's very probably what they meant.

And @somberi (great username btw), given gmail's incredible spam filtering, mail id obscuration is usually not warranted for gmail ids (unless you're already experiencing spam issues for some reason, in which case I understand.)
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I actually agree with you. Don't understand why you are being downvoted.
I find it awfully sad that as of this writing, all but one of the comments are about existential threat AGIs, with the only comment about the technical part the lowest ranked comment.

IMO this implementation is something that we've seen mostly in synthetic training. This RNN model with reinforcement from peers is a great example of collaborative systems that could be applied to a great number of dangerous tasks. Things like other planet exploration, deep mining, asteroid mining or exploration in other places where there is a need for unknown probing and exploration work, but that humans can't go.

Another aspect about this I find interesting is that the distinction between each robot system is really only symbolic. Combining the nets and thus "internal" reinforcement system into a singular system is a step closer to debunking the idea of "unsupervised" learning (which I claim is not unsupervised at all as there is always a seed of training somewhere).
What about the xbox? Its done pretty well.
It's probably just the CDN caching the 503 page.
Yes.

In credit card world it goes auth, capture, settlement. Auth happens within those few seconds when you slide your card. Capture tends to happen at the end of the business day when the "final" total is known and charged against your card. Settlement is when everything has cleared and merchants get their money.
I won't mention basic things like non-competition clauses, honesty etc... The majority of people are usually honest - especially those senior enough to be exposed to this kind of secrets / overview.

But past that starting a business, especially a physical product one is not a trivial thing to do. You need to be very motivated. Like with software you discover many time-consuming details as you implement. And here not everything can be automated once solved. Even established competitors do not copy as fast as one may think because of these forces.

It might be dumb money but it still isn't easy money - and that's what make it even dumber : why not invest the effort in something "better" someone will say.
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> I think you left off a set of quotes on the first use of "evented."

Indeed, sorry I lost you there.

> Regardless, I meant the idea of moving everything to a communication of events between subsystems.

Unless the persisted events are the primary representation of data, this describes "evented" (or message-based) rather than ES.

> To be fair, the sibling read me correctly and stated that if you just ignore the distributed nature of events, then things aren't that hard.

> However, it is easy to follow the lure of "I'll go ahead and make this work for the distributed case" from the beginning

So it seems like what we're actually saying here is "Distributed systems are hard to build reliably"—which wouldn't seem to be a surprising result on HN, and certainly a sentiment I'd agree with.

I've moved to using Elixir and Erlang primarily because processes/actors have such a natural fit for this kind of data that I get really grumpy when I have to work in something else now. There is also a long history of distributed systems within the BEAM ecosystem so there is a legacy of design meant to deal with the inherently unreliable nature of building distributed.
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In this context "panel" means the group of people who they are providing market-researchers some kind of access-to, not a user-interface "panel".

Like "a panel of experts."
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but you get the benefit of having you package on OS X, BSD and most Linuxes (except Android) too.
It would be interesting if they'd also asked "How many other programming languages do you know besides JavaScript?"

And compared how many people want JavaScript to be their main programming language because they only know one programming language and don't want to learn another, with how many people know multiple programming languages and would rather program in JavaScript as their main language because they like JavaScript better.
He possibly meant "04".
Well done on the Japan launch.

Any plans to add South Africa soon?

It would be great to have Stripe on African soil.
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I could have sworn that page said median, not average. Thanks for the correction.
> As of windows 7, the license is quite literally tied to the hardware.

Dates back to at least XP with Windows. The string that was checked in XP was very simple and later versions were digital certificates. Windows 10 OEM (started with 8 iirc) use per machine fingerprinting and have individual keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Pre-installation

System builder licences are fairly cheap but the EULA for them state that they are for putting on a new machine and selling that hardware on, if your building a machine for yourself you need a standard licence.

As for the cheap licences found on sites such as Kinguin. Speculation is a number of keys on these sites come from stolen CC's. Buy keys from legit sites with stolen Cc, sell the codes on Kinguin/G2A. Legit store is hit with charge back once CC holder realise they had their card has been used. It's been a fairly regular complaint in the indie games industry http://tinybuild.com/g2a-sold-450k-worth-of-our-game-keys
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