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I would like to once more criticize the fact that BBC re-invented the wheel (and micro:bit) at a time where $5 Raspberry Pi 0 is widely available.
It would have been much better to spend the effort of producing better learning software and ecosystem for Raspberry Pi instead.
Someone boasted about the lengths it took to make Python run on micro:bit and it still isn't full Python and no chance for anything graphically intensive, whereas you can code Minecraft on Raspberry Pi and actually plug it to your TV.
Wow. Even HN is trying to bury this.
News companies know how to kill themselves, advertising communication apps for free, locking users far away from their websites. They should investir heavily in open protocol and investigate more tech monopolies.
A little yeah, but TBH, after I started understanding what it was about I was expecting worse.

It's a little difficult to see the differences really between MGTOW and "pick-up artists". They seem pretty similar to me, but look like they hate each other.
I'm not super-familiar with pip-tools however I'll try and explain what I like about Cargo.

You're right on the dependencies, there's a lock file to make sure you get the exact build environment. So from a dependency management perspective it sounds similar.

What I like about Cargo is it's just slightly opinionated about how you want to build a Rust project. Creating a new project is as simple as "cargo new myproject" and boom, away you go. Same thing with unit testing, running all tests in a Rust project is as simple as "cargo test".

If you've worked on a moderately large C/C++ codebase you'll know that those two things alone can be a huge source of annoyance.

It also makes it really easy to install Rust-based tools like racer/rustfmt/etc with "cargo install <tool>" which pulls the source, builds and puts the executable on your path.

In short, all the annoying stuff around project management that in C/C++ is neatly handled into a few short commands. In my mind it's a huge productivity win.
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> I'm guessing it has far more to do with network connectivity than the tablet itself

That view is reinforced here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/patriots-bill-belichi...

"Microsoft's hardware isn't necessarily the culprit here, merely the victim. The NFL uses a lot of wireless hardware—communications headsets, public Wi-Fi networks, private networks for the tablets, networks for the press, and more."
A comparison of state-of-the-art graph processing systems
Unfortunate to see no mention of Nix or Guix :(
From TFA:

Belichick was also unhappy with the other communications systems at the game, like the ones between the press box and the sideline and between the coach and the quarterback. “Those fail on a regular basis,” he said.

He noted that the league does not supply the equipment to the teams until a few hours before the game, making troubleshooting difficult.

“So I would just say there are problems in every game,” he said. “There were problems last week, but there were problems the week before that, too. Some are worse than others. Sometimes both teams have them, sometimes one team has them and the other team doesn’t have them.”
I feel the problem is that marketing terminology is ill-regulated, so companies can make "natural", "unlimited", "fresh", "home-made", "organic", "life-time", "guaranteed", "green", etc. mean whatever they want them to mean and allows enough cover that consumers assume it means one thing while to industry if means quite another or very narrow interpretation.
"And again: who decided your PM would be PM? Voters? Or was it an internal decision made by a party without voter input? How can you claim that the US is less democratic than that?"

It's not a perfect system, either, but the PM has to be among those elected to office - it's entirely possible (though rare) for a party to win the election, and their candidate for PM to lose their seat (and thus be ineligible).

It does also offer a semblance of "honesty" or vested interest. There's an accountability - if you as the PM are not capable of running a platform or country that makes other members of your party electable, they can and will remove you. So, at least in theory, there's a feeling of representative power. Most party-based removals from positions have come directly from the people, unhappy with performance, and then groups of politicians saying "Yeah, we're out of a job if we follow you/keep down this road".

It does also have Survivor-like elements, for better, and worse.

But the candidate for PM is known by the public, so in a sense it's de facto voted for.

Just like in the US, to rephrase your last: "Who decided your President would be President? Voters? Or was it an internal decision by an electoral college who in some cases is not obligated to respect the wishes of those they represent? How can you claim that to be democratic?"

As someone who has lived substantial periods in both Australia and the US, I have a decent perspective.
Your reply reads like I blamed the moderators, which I didn't. I just think it doesn't look good when critical stories disappear from a forum.
Mods: Can we unflag and replace with the ZeroHedge link? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/hillary-clinton-lin...
Injuries decreased 20% from 1980 to 2012 according those numbers.. seems significant no?
Not just tourists, unfortunately they own a large part of that city.
Yea actually it does, the purpose is whatever the users/builders use it for. So a stick has any purpose that it's user can think for it - starting a fire, hitting an animal to kill it, support for a mud wall etc...

Technology arises out of a sense of purpose from it's user. This is pretty common understanding in philosophy of science.
"Boys will be boys" is usually the justification for excusing what would be considered battery, assault or harassment if the perpetrator was 18 or over.
As an aside: the idea of "premium" freedom makes me giggle,
I'd love to have a beer with the marketing exec that came
up with that mouthful.

Unlimited Freedom Premium would be a good name for a beer itself ;)
How can T-Mobile dictate what quality video you get?
Actually that is how I have been using C++ since around 2006, as an infrastructure language when JVM, .NET or ML languages cannot fulfil my use case, which happens very seldom.

And even though it was one of the languages I enjoyed most using after Turbo Pascal and I even gave C++ classes at the university, I am a firm believer that if Java, VB.NET and C# had been fully AOT compiled from day 1, just like many other alternatives that used to exist, C++ might have not taken off as it did.

The rise of VM languages, with other AOT compiled languages fading away and rise of FOSS written mostly in C, made C and C++ the only languages we could turn to when the performance was lacking, thus arriving at the actual situation.

As for using C with a scripting language, without the safety of strong type checking, real enumerations, support for arrays and strings, no namespaces, no RAII, new/delete instead of malloc()/free() and many of safety improvements from C++ over C, that is not something I will ever advise.

I already did that once with Tcl for two years, no need to repeat it.
There are European countries which don't require ID (for example the UK). The thing you're perhaps missing is that if you don't have a compulsory national identity card of some kind, then many people will not have an easily available 'official' ID. The problem is worse in the states because so many people don't own a passport.

In any case, there is very little evidence for substantial voter fraud in the US as far as I'm aware.

The general point about the US being perhaps overly smug about its democracy is valid however. Just not because of a lack of voter ID requirement (in fact, the introduction of requirements is more likely a source of undermining democracy there).
It won't yield long-term happiness for most of them, but knowing that doesn't deal with the hazards these men have observed in marriage. I've seen enough of my peers (male and female, to be fair) be put through the divorce ringer to be leary of commitment like that.

Once bitten, twice shy.
Then why did you re-title it to "Bill Belichick Might Be a Mac Guy" when you posted it?

That's not the original title of the article. Macs are not mentioned anywhere in the article. It seems like you were the only one saying this...
> not necessarily through any intrinsic benefit of the language, instead through a selection of who is writing that language

I'd say that such selection is intrinsic benefit of the language.
Would you let your child roam about Chicago these days?
Anyone who's into blockchains take note. As fun as tracking complex financial logic may be, accurately tracking physical supply chains is probably the quickest route to notably improving the lives of people in general.
You whole argument is based on what US said and that they would not lie because it would ruin their PR campaign. US can say whatever they want so do Russia, but so far none of them showed any proof that hackers were sponsored by Russian gov.
Sure but that doesn't mean it's used as that.
The RPi Zero was not available when the micro:bit project kicked off - indeed, the micro:bit was planned for release last September. This is about ease of development (in particular in terms of not requiring any toolchain setup) and immediate interaction with physical things.
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And Iraq actually had weapons of mass desctruction.
> Large big webfonts

I think you're confusing filesize with font size. :)
In many cases, the US has only had the support of a few, in some cases minuscule number of people. In many cases they had no consent from either the government or the populace.

Your example implies that the US was only in South America at the behest of the countries in question to do _their_ bidding, not the US's.
It's not that simple. If you don't experiment, make mistakes etc. you don't grow.
I think most of the major cities were actually worse when we were children
This will be devastating to the ESA's funding which is why they are spinning it so hard. This really sucks.
Ask HN: What's your favorite(s) that didn't get to HN's front page?
It can be your favorite thread or post. I find HN highly addictive :)
Ask HN: What are the options for micro-payments?
Say you expect lots of $1 to $5 transactions. Who offers the best easy-to-integrate service with low enough fees to make it worthwhile?

If I remember correctly Amazon Payments had reduced fees for <$10 transactions. That seems to be gone.

Not sure what PayPal offers but they can be a bit scary due to their history of freezing accounts, etc. High sales velocity could trigger these actions and it would be catastrophic.

I am after a platform with favorable terms for micro-payments and decent rates above that range.
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> Engineer the situation such that a 'hover-parent' has no choice but to call 911.

Sounds like you were using your kid as a prop in a social experiment with the goal to push your own particular agenda through "teaching moments" on strangers.

What did you intend to accomplish?
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Bad title, should say film industry.
That seems technically over-complicated and personally dishonest...

Why not simply set a hard time limit, and optionally enforce it with existing parental control software?

Surely you don't need to deface a product to manipulate children when you could simply say "no, you've had enough, go (play outside/read a book/help your sister set the table)" and deny access to the game?

I'd feel terrible if someone grew up thinking the games (or movies, or books) I'd made were low quality/broken just because someone was intentionally degrading the experience for them.
Slightly different issue, but it seems that we're too dependent on technology in general. In the event of a major conflict with a great power, our technology infrastructure is likely the first thing to go. As things stand now, that would be a death blow. I could see the military being prepared to chug along, but it seems unlikely that much else would.
As I understand it, native promises don't make native system calls. They are still pure js. They are just implemented differently from Bluebird which optimizes for the most common use cases.
"Where would the tech industry be if every engineer’s highest aspiration was landing a gig with Verizon?"

Lol irl
> I would lose a lot of experience, libraries, a mature stable platform and job opportunities in exchange for more memory safety - something that's not a particularly pressing issue for me.

May i ask why memory issues are not a pressing issue for you? having to hunt down memory corruptions / access to dangling pointer / memory leaks is a pretty frequent occupation for me (as a C/C++ developer). There are tools like valgrind that help, but well, it is a pain to deal with these issues.
Ask HN: Is this blog post any good?
I'm writing a blog post to highlight the simple ways organizations can ensure their teams perform at the highest level and that I'm building something that puts these steps into a framework to make it easy to implement and monitor.

It would be great to get your thoughts on the post. How can I make it better?

https://medium.com/@raykanani/a-5-step-framework-for-building-high-performance-teams-bc998228dbdb#.b5nge5vxw
Don't bet on it.
This is rooted in the American culture: Americans are already used to things like this. For example here if you go to a restaurant, you will usually pay 30% more than the price that is displayed (tips + taxes).
I think the article is definitely definitely inflammatory.

There are good points though. "Womankind has let them down".

That's a fairly valid concern. If you get married to somebody, you both have to sacrifice certain of your desires to make the relationship better. The guy can't constantly be jetting off to Vegas, for instance, because now he has a mortgage maybe, and to make relationships work you're going to have to spend a lot of time together, even if you don't particularly feel like it.

However, these days, a lot of women (Western feminists) don't feel like sacrificing. They're brought up on the thoughts that you can have your cake and eat it too. You can play around when you're younger and make your career your priority.

Then when you actually do want to settle down, what do you have? Rather, what do you have to offer? Can you listen, sacrifice your spare time to listen to somebody else's problems, do you mind doing chores for a shared house?

Contrary to most belief, most men are not terribly impressed with a woman's ability to have a career. They're more interested in having a life partner that you can share burdens with, and once you have so much invested in your career, you're not going to give that up.

If you lack any of the skills to be good in a relationship (whether from lack of practice or inclination), you're not going to be a good partner, and you shouldn't expect a good partner.
Largely agreed - my second bullet was about only ever shifting one of text/background. I'm not certain that darkening backgrounds is more readable than lightening text, but it wouldn't surprise me.

And in a broader design sense, darkening backgrounds is better for the sort of dark room reading Flux helps with, so it seems obviously preferable on that level.
"Drowning was the leading cause injury death for those 1 to 4 years of age." via http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/child_injury_data.html
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We don't count them.
Some do, some dont, some as feminism with men. Older youtube channels have very little hate.
Yea, the mobile industry seems to have gone through a a few distinct phases with respect to their data pricing:

1. Unlimited data. Data isn't worth anything, just give it away.

2. Tiered data. No one talks on the phone any longer. It's all about data now. We'll charge them per GB to use it!

3. Unlimited everything with extras. Ok, most people are actually not using that much mobile data. Wifi is all over the place, and when given the option of paying more or constraining their mobile data usage, most people opt for the latter. Let's start selling them premium features instead.
@jowiar: when you adopt that stance, you really have to be sure you are on the "right" side of every important position. I hope you are and will be so that you never have to face tangible oppression for your beliefs.
First, e-waste is not a "problem" it is a reality.

Second, electronics manufacturers create, operate and pay for sophisticated e-waste recycling programs. These programs are built in to their business models and they are not externalized.

Processes depend on the waste stream, but generally speaking waste is collected, disassembled, processed and separated then processed again in to raw materials. The program includes audits that ensure the materials go in to new products or raw materials rather than being landfilled.

E-waste is a resource that deserves proper stewardship.
Give me the ability to pre-load this thing with a given amount of bitcoin linked to a switchable account and we would be all set.
$48 million seems like a slap on the wrist. T-Mobile made $32 billion in revenue in 2015 and just posted $479 million in profit. I wish I could feel like these fines actually acted as a deterrent.
Internet won't fuck up your children half as much as your intolerance of reality and their feelings will.
God what happened to HN? Seeing so much drivel on this site lately.
I somewhat agree, but would like to counter by saying that the micro:bit has been an invaluable tool for me personally to teach fundamental hardware programming. The pi zero, while a great tool for more advanced programming, still requires some boilerplate knowledge of electrical engineering that surpasses what one would want to teach someone who just wants to make some lights flash.

The micro:bit has, built in: a 5×5 array of leds, an accelerometer, a digital compass, 2 push buttons, a set of piezo / touch io, and a low-power bluetooth radio — all of which have api libraries and documentation that a user doesn't need to write themselves.

While there are a multitude of awesome things that can be done with the pi zero, there's still a non-trivial amount of setup required to program basic hardware features.
I appreciate Apple pursuing this, they have the resources and it does give them a black eye when something seems legit and then blows up.

And Amazon has definitely changed in terms of the sketchyness of its store experience. I expect that is a change in leadership and I really mourn the fact that Wall Street has rewarded them for it by boosting their stock price[1].

I observed Ebay trying to "get to Amazon's level" and of course Amazon has been coming down to Ebay's level and they are meeting somewhere in the middle, a global cutthroat marketplace with the buyer having to seriously up their game in order to avoid scams.

But the case in point is counterfeit Apple products being sold both by Amazon and by people using Amazon as a sales platform. It would be useful if there was some blowback on Amazon itself for facilitating fraudulent sellers as that would provide some incentive for them to crack down on it. In much of these cases when it is a lot of disconnected individuals getting hurt there isn't an effective feedback mechanism to get it corrected.

[1] Disclosure I do hold AMZN stock but not very much.
Reader mode only really handles main article or post content, though. It does a great job at it, but that's not what the parent poster was talking about.
It's just a matter of scale. If you are at the scale of netflix, vm are probably too complex black boxes, and logs output somewhere else anyway. Plus the problem may involve the interraction of several vm, or the network, or other composants together.
Your account is charged when purchases happen. So your account would not be locked. You just couldn't make any additional purchases until you updated your account.

Chargebacks are the big problem for companies that operate like this.
Trump's loss was as claimed as an individual, on an income tax return, not as a business carrying forward.
Not sure if this is a reliable Apple perk, but I recently took a failing power supply into the store, expecting to pay $50-75 for a new one (because I did not trust the shady looking wares Amazon had to offer), and they replaced my 6 year old Magsafe T style with a sleek L style for free.

I'm pretty sure they are incentivized to do this because of all the shady knockoffs.
The low contrast text? You realize that this is a feature?
Only tangentially related, but I think this is part of the draw/success of Stranger Things on Netflix. Gen-Xers like me (who are now parents) get nostalgic about the days we could freely roam town on our bikes. Well after dark. Without a helmet. And explore without supervision. (Yes, I know helmets save lives).

I'm very much an anti-helicopter parent similar to the article. I wonder if deep down most parents know its better–but for whatever reason (peer pressure, media, etc.) they hover.
Seriously? I don't have the words... especially for Chicago.

http://heyjackass.com/ <- This is a serious website BTW
Go ahead and helicopter-observe adults if that is how you interpret that data. I will surely be vigilantly watching my young children when they are near water.
When people say "half the country supports X candidate" I like to point out polls only count registered voters who are likely to vote, which is closer to half the eligible voting population (which of course doesn't include any of the non-adults).

It's more like each candidate has support from less than a quarter of the population and most people don't support either.

Somehow I find that reassuring.
Exactly. Data is necessary to make control flow decisions; the purely behavioural approach suffers infinite regress without some form of concrete data.

I suspect that this problem was one of the reasons later actor languages came to include some kind of data; in the case of Erlang, messages are the data, compared structurally; in E, object identities can be compared without sending messages to the objects.
A clear example of a class of problem in which one must simply bite the bullet.
Eh, the hard limits get tiresome after a while. Sometimes parents need some other things in their arsenal, as long as they don't become a crutch.

Little secret for the non parents: parenting is not always about complete and total honesty. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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This is a great point. I realized that changing both colors, like Apple did, was awful. I underestimated the degree to which changing background feels better than changing text.

Honestly, I don't think "too much contrast" is my biggest problem with black-on-white. It's the sea of #FFF that's unpleasant (with or without text), so something like HN's ~#EEE background feels way better to look at.
> Not even close. It cost ~900M for the repair mission and the cost to build Hubble was ~2.5B.

There where 6 Hubble servicing missions. "this last Hubble servicing mission is expected to cost about $1.1 billion" http://www.space.com/6648-hubble-faq-space-telescope-repair-...

Further, 15 years is considered a relatively short lifetime for a satellite, so Hubble 2 and 3 could have easily had a longer total lifespan if they had kept them in a higher orbit because there was no need for servicing. Instead "the space telescope was designed to typically go only three years between overhauls."

AKA, they designed it to need 'fixing'.
Is hacking really a crime? If your computer was secure, then the hacker could not hack. So.. who's fault is it?
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