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I downvoted you because your comment was gimmicky and needlessly antagonistic while not making a substantive point. Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world? Do you think you've achieved that much more than Eric Schmidt or Elon Musk (notable attendees) that you can talk down to them?
Sounds like you already made up your mind.
In my experience, very few, but most of those were exceptional people. They contributed to something they were passionate about, and learned all the stuff you don't get in school (writing code that can be maintained for a while, and that's maintainable by others; use of source control and issue trackers, etc).

That said, I can think of two cases where I'm pretty sure they "contributed" because they were told or read that it would be good to do for their resume. One basically just uploaded a couple projects to github (with one commit). The other had contributed a few trivial patches to a couple projects, at least one had some comments that were unaddressed and didn't get merged.
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They're hacking into election systems as well, not just the DNC:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-i...
Not AFAIK. Care to write it?
Because it helps them justify a larger budget?

This is ridiculous. Why would they not lie? The US intelligence community appears to lie reflexively about everything. Why would anyone take their words at face value?
FWIW I found Rethink easier than Mongo, especially the query language. ReQL is actual JavaScript—Mongo's query language always seemed weird to me.

Mongo was "there" first and generated a lot of hype through sales and marketing. For a while and probably still now, a lot of Hackathons at college campuses are sponsored by Mongo and you can usually get a prize for using Mongo in your project.

Rethink never marketed themselves too much—it was one of those things you found out about in HN or from another dev.

I'm clueless about business stuff so I don't mean to say Rethink should've marketed heavily like Mongo did, but that's definitely a factor. I also think Rethink should've done Horizon earlier and offered paid hosting/deployment for it and Rethink users.
djb's papers always make for good reading. I wish more papers were written as straightforwardly as his.
What differentiates Vue from all the other client rendering libraries out there? (Angular, Polymer, React, Ember, Knockout, etc).

At first glance it looks kinda like Knockout.
I think it does. If indeed Fluid Intelligence cannot be trained, then you could say that people who seek out Novelty, Challenges, etc. are actually the sort of people who have high intelligence, than the other way around. If these 5 principles he states actually did increase intelligence, then Lumosity would work for people as it exposes you to novel brain training games that are challenging.
>If the problem is actually the voting machines, then maybe we should go back to all paper ballots like many other western countries like Canada.

Problems with paper ballots in the 2000 election are a big reason the US no longer trusts them. No one wants to go back to the days of scrutinizing hanging chads and indistinct pencil marks.

Electronic voting has obvious problems but at least you know what a vote is or isn't.
How Tagging in Time Management Apps Boosts Productivity
I was just wondering.
Other successful companies have used this business model.

Mobile is the most common use case for a real-time DB. They didn't provide good iOS and Android integration. Technically Rethink is superior to Firebase, but Firebase is more successful.
Unrelated but none of the google blog links open up on safari in iOS. The link opens but text doesn't show.
Is WaPo still a credible medium after their "no pardon for Snowden"?

Also, when will the US Oligarchy stop blaming everything on Russia. Sloppy server security? It's Russia. Private e-mail server used for government business? It's Russia.... Nearly 20 trillion dollar debt? It's Russia.

OK, US Oligarchy needs an enemy for a new war. A war that would hide the fact that this neoliberal system is about to hit the wall. A war that would fill the troves of the military industrial complex.

Says a "conspiracy theorist" George F. Kennan, former US ambassador to Moscow and distinguished Council on Foreign Relations member: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy."

Good Night, and Good Luck.
Those computers I wrote about are gone a long time ago. I don't know where to look for those components. Maybe ebay?
Which is why the rule of thumb with any sort of macro is: use minimally and tastfully, and do not write one until there is a proven need.
Traditional math education: a professor explains proofs of selected theorems on a blackboard and students are then required to memorize the proofs and reconstruct them during the examination. They are also required to solve a lot of problems that involve proving some consequences of the main theorems or doing some rote calculations using nothing but pencil and paper.

The advantage of this approach is that it works. You can acquire solid intuition this way. But it is arduous as hell and also pretty one-sided - problems are limited to what an average undergraduate can do by hand.

Now, when I think about using computers in math education I don't think of some "javascript doodad" with moving sliders. I imagine instead implementing an algorithm or doing a numerical experiment, learning about possible pitfalls in the implementation, running the algorithm on some real data, seeing it fail etc. I think this experience is pretty valuable too and can nicely complement traditional approach.
Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt are also notable attendees in Real Life.
9 users said yes and probably when you asked the question yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650470

Looking further in the past you've asked this and similar questions (reading vs watching videos to learn programming) a dozen times https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Onixelen Are you looking for different answers from those you already got? Are you currently learning via videos?
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For those not "in the know," what capability is that? Everything I hear implies a focus on ease of use: Easy replication/distribution, JS API, single number type (float64), usefulness when teaching novices, etc.
Free Time and the Pressures of Employability
I didn't say there was friendship. Trump and his buddy and partner Phil Ruffin are also partners and buddies with ukrainian oligarch Onyshenko who at present is hiding out in Russia as ukrainian parliament voted to lift his immunity (as a parliament member) so he can be prosecuted for his various schemes. He is most likely one of the key pawns for Putin for having influence on Trump. So far only minor things came out relating to Paul Manafort, I am guessing closer to elections something major related to the above connection will come out.
That's very cool that Basecamp is mostly open source. I really appreciate their leadership and the example they set.
It seems like a full framework, easy to start with, yet doesn't feel bloated or confusing (personal opinon).

Here's an obviously biased (obvious biased since it's from the creator of vue himself), yet pretty good comparison: https://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html
For me it's that I can easily get work done in it compared to React.
Battlecode was MIT's first AI competition (started back in 2000). It's been around before the Google AI Challenge.
>>>yes, C and C++ are more portable than LLVM

C and C++ are more portable then their own compiler's backend? LLVM is clang/clang++'s assembler

I get what your saying if you compile to C it can be more portable. But then you need to compile to some C standard.

K&R C? ANSI C? C90? C99? C11? Why not have a compiler flag for each? What about embedded C? What companies embedded C?

I can repeat this for C++

Compiling to C/C++ in a platform and standard agnostic way is impossible.
Eh. I lean more on the scheme side of things, myself. One namespace, less historical cruft, and macros that are hygenic by default. It's a pretty good deal.
Movies seem to really be hollowing out the middle more. You've got a lot of very low-budget fliers and indie prestige stuff and a lot of $100M+ mega-movies, drifting now into attempts at Marvel-esque cinematic universe perpetual money-printing machines for increasingly dubious IPs.

I'm not sure I agree. Those two types have certainly risen, but if you look at films from last year, there a are still a ton of "middle" films with decent budgets (10-30M) and high praise from the critics - Selma, Spotlight, Carol, The Big Short, etc. I don't see a hollow middle.
I mean Putin has dirt on Trump (based on Trumps shady dealings with Ukrainian and Russian Oligarchs)
Schaum's Outlines are also good if all you really need is a refresher, or to use concurrently with learning the material fresh.
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Sitting on the plane sucks though if you're not first class.

I'm 6 feet tall and the lack of legroom and claustrophobia is tough to deal with, especially if the person in front of me inconsiderably leans their seat back.

The last three flights I was on had us sitting on the tarmac 40 minutes each time before take-off due to various maintenance/ATC issues. Of course, you couldn't open your laptop either (but I did anyway).

The flight attendants also have a habit of asking me to close my laptop when it isn't anywhere near time to land yet.
Does your language allow referring to a person while leaving their gender unspecified? If not, your language is deficient.

All the mainstream European languages I've seen (Germanic and Romance) don't seem to have this capability at all, and it's a big deficiency. Formal English doesn't have it either, but colloquially we've evolved it, using "they" (which of course is bad because it's supposed to be used for referring to people in the plural sense, not singular).

So don't complain about a language having structural problems if yours isn't any better.
Vue, like Ember, is not controlled or authored by a large tech corporation. That doesn't make them better or worse, but it's an idea I like.
The opposite of "not invented here syndrome" is "the new shiny."

In this condition, organizations culturally select new tools over older ones simply because they are new, get a lot of buzz among a certain userbase, and make extravagant promises of solving major problems with a tiny fraction of the amount of work that previous solutions required, due to some magical new technology or insight that the old school way of doing things didn't have.

Of course, in almost all cases "the new shiny" does not actually solve the problem with less work; it simply shifts the work around some -- frequently by moving upfront work into technical debt, unmaintainability, and non-extensibility. The usual net effect is to multiply rather than reduce the original problem -- but this is deferred into the future, so it's not usually noticed by "new shiny" enthusiasts and communities for some time.

The canonical example of "the new shiny" is NoSQL, which promised to simplify the design and scaling problems associated with relational databases. This is true when your app is tiny, but at any scale and after any amount of time, both of these problems become much worse. You just don't notice until much later, because the work has been shifted from upfront work to amortized work.
If it's DRE, you don't actually have any idea what the vote is or isn't. With a paper trail in theory you can at least recount.
Is that meaningful? Even if they're hiring, it's not like I'm going to get a good senior web dev job (pay, challenges, respect, oppportunity..) in Boise or Nashville or wherever. Yes there are jobs, but unless you're going to work remotely, almost all of the good ones are clustered in a handful of metro areas anyway.
freethinkdb is a good name, maybe for a future fork :)
Ahh, right. A few old people misread those poorly designed ballots, therefore let's use a poorly secured system that is hackable by foreign governments.

Or, we could design the ballots to not be confusing?

It's funny how other western countries using paper ballots don't have these problems.
Five Charts Explaining Why Snapchat's Worth $25B
Wikipedia says "proudly found elsewhere" or "invented elsewhere" are commonly used. I've heard the latter one before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
World of Dork-craft: This guy's 'South Park' cosplay is seriously fantastic
Get the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card with lounge access as a perk.
Could you count how many times in history yielding to bold advances of power hungry ruler served as effective deterrent to war?
Internet shutdowns cost the world at least $2.4B last year
This hits home way too hard.
I am about to spend the next four hours repetitively power-cycling my device.
There are much more mature and stable examples to point at for community-supported open source. Successful open source generally doesn't happen because of direct dollar contributions, but because companies that depend on the projects decide to employ the project maintainers, or assign their existing employees to fix & improve critical projects.

For example, I know that at least $100k/month is being poured into Ember right now. There is no visible patreon page to point to, because it's all employee salaries. But multiple very-big companies -- in tech, finance, and media -- are using and depending on Ember and are paying their employees and contractors directly to keep making it better.

That estimate is certainly lower than the true number, because I'm only counting the group of people whose time is 100% allocated to Ember. There are a couple orders of magnitude more people who get to allocate some of their paid working time, and that group adds up to quite a lot more money.
Those companies still exist and are profitable, are they not?

Sounds similar to the wage gap argument here: if it exists, where are all the companies hiring cheaper workers capable of doing the same work, exploiting the supposed market inefficiency?
This is what Shkreli has counted on you believing. The cost is NOT $20. The co-pay is. The amount paid by your insurer is well into the four digits.

Your insurer isn't an endowment, it isn't a charity. Notwithstanding a few percent ROI on investing premiums, the only person paying these four digits is you. Or your employer. It's just amortized and spread among a group.

"It's not that bad, it's really only $20" is the big trick here. A much higher amount is being billed, and paid, even after negotiation. It's not coming from a magic money fairy.
I really like JFK's roof-top lounge that you can go up onto if you're flying JetBlue. It has grass, umbrellas, and shade outside (INSIDE the airport terminal/gates -- surprised they have it given security concerns).
A gentle introduction to convolutional neural networks
The word formalized might be where disagreement started. If you meant precise & useful, Hansen formalized the definition Ive seen in some books. If you mean in mathematical specification, you might be correct. Im not sure when that got started.
> Genuine question: why is this a problem if the publisher doesn't want a third party to use their work without their permission, or at all?

Suppose the publisher's content consists of slander or government propaganda. They use DRM to prevent copying or archiving or citing it properly, and revise it as they wish, denying that older versions were ever published.

In the print days, you'd still have the old copy. Today, you can point to the internet archive. What if the text was DRM'd?

What the publisher wants to permit is one consideration. What the reader has a right to do with what they're reading is another.
A judge wants to make patent trolling a first amendment issue
IMO, it's much more important to teach the underlying concepts than it is to teach how to use the framework of the month.

Zachtronics games tend to take an important programming concept and distills it to a really fun and challenging core.
I can see why it sounds fun. 40 pages later of dense schematics that you're desperately trying to match to what you have on your desk you'd realise it's 90% frustration and 10% headache. It's like navigating a city with a map showing cracks in the pavement split into 1000 individual one page puzzle pieces and written in Chinese (sometimes literally). God forbid someone made some modifications along the way at which point you might as well call it a day and bugger off to the pub. Now THAT last bit is actually good.
Yes, just poking a bit of fun at the detached-sounding wording.
It completely depends on the airport.

My parents home is in Houston, Texas and I flew to college at Hobby Airport. The waiting and gate area was large and big, it had free wifi and a ton of places where I can eat (breakfast, lunch, or dinner food) or sit down.

When I was going back home from college, I had to wait at LaGuardia. LaGuardia's terminal for my airplane company of choice is depressing and always packed to the point where there was nowhere to sit. It also only had two places to buy food and both were breakfast places (Dunkin' Donuts). I eventually timed the train/taxi to the airport such that I spent as little time as possible waiting there.

Anyway, that's a rant I've been meaning to make for a while if you'll excuse me. A bad airport is anxiety-inducing.
It's very bizarre. My take so far is:

- Russia's actual "state sponsored" capability would allow it to have hacked the server without being traced.

- Thus if Russia did it, the trail was left intentionally.

- Only if the "missing" emails contain a major smoking gun would it make sense for the HRC campaign to use this finger pointing as misdirection.

- Only if some PR aim was beneficial would HRC's campaign have turned the hack's alleged origin into a campaign rallying cry, rather than letting the officials currently in office handle it through official channels. This point is strengthened by HRC's status as a former sec-of-state.

Hypothesis 1: The HRC team is fully expecting an email to surface containing a smoking gun, and this is part of a preemptive misdirection strategy.

Hypothesis 2: This is part of an ongoing misdirection strategy with the full knowledge that no smoking gun will emerge from any of the hacked/leaked information, intended to keep everyone occupied with intrigue and speculation to avoid settling on any other focal point that might harm the campaign.

Hypothesis 3: Russia is doing a low-sophistication mischief campaign and has ineptly made itself a scapegoat and fomented outrage over this hacking which has become a rallying cry for HRC's campaign.
That's what happens when English literature is married with postmodernism cults:)
I am also looking for someone to spoonfeed me information on random topics that momentarily take my fancy. Let me know if you find someone like that. I want to be their friend.
And state legislation mandating that medic units carry multiple EpiPens.

Medic units, that have trained personnel, that have all the equipment to draw up Epi from a $3 vial themselves, who are already on scene.

This leads to my county alone having to throw away $130,000/yr of EpiPens that don't get used before they expire. Because the state legislates that we're required to carry them.
Clearly the guys who wrote the only comprehensive introduction to a topic don't want to share their knowledge.
Erik Naggum's rant against XML, which I discovered thanks to the great uriel's site on harmful stuff, is a treat to read: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML

By the way, I wouldn't call him a freak, but I greatly admire Joey Hess, writing great Free software from his off-grid cabin.
I'm not sure a recent comments sidebar would fit the aesthetic of Hacker News. The HN software is currently storing whether you've hidden certain comment chains or not, so perhaps it could store what comments existed in what thread when you last visited.
They're upping the accusations now for at least two reasons that are convenient. The growing conflict between the US and Russia in Syria and the embarrassingly weak, flailing campaign of Hillary Clinton.
Not hard to flush out. Reasonable comment pounded into oblivion because it mentions X Co. Net effect: people afraid to speak ill of X Co.
Neither of those are quite strong enough, I think. Some organisations have a great reluctance to build anything new even when there's a clear need. Hence never invent.
I was hoping for something a little more direct, deterministic, immediate, and non-damaging.
When the new astrolabe comes out
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"they don't expect to collect on most bills they issue to self-paying patients for emergency services, which is why they're so quick to negotiate them down if you ask. They know self-paying patients are very unlikely to actually pay the full bill, so they'd rather discount it up-front than write it down."

... or send it to Collections, charge it off, pick up the check for what might likely have been the negotiated amount anyway, take the difference in a tax write off, and debtor gets chased for the full Chargemaster rate...
What It's Like to Be a Stay-At-Home Dad
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I feel the same way, when I'm not rushed to catch a plane. It's a good place to relax, especially if I have a reasonably lengthed layover.
There were some really magnificent train stations back in Victorian times...
You poor soul, I hope you have a power button. I eventually bought a power brick with a built-in switch.