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Fair point, I think what's missing from some of the discussion here is that very few languages are productive without an effective toolchain.
In my opinion, this is a failing of schools. Keep trying while figuring out how to do it better is a culture of learning. Shuffling everybody through without meaningful challenges and eliminating all indicators of relative (or even absolute) performance, means kids aren't developed with a sense of self-development, even if they do pick up some academic knowledge along the way. This can easily cause people to become reliant on an unearned default acceptance, confirmation, and praise from others.

Home life certainly has a lot to do with it, encouraging kids to get through their homework (and homework itself is of arguable benefit), but the standards and expectations of schools really set the underlying tone. We need to be trained in overcoming challenges ourselves, with assistance and guidance where appropriate, and with real consequences if we don't.

The fact that so many people hit adulthood without this basic self-determining ability is apocalyptic.
I've worked at startups that have taken no money (0) and those that have taken boat loads (Hundreds of Millions).

I made much more money from the former situation.
it becomes non-paradoxical if you tweak it to:

"Nobody goes there by choice any more - it's too crowded"

Obviously it's still not "nobody" for LM - or anywhere - but things change and people get stuck with the new reality sometimes.
Yeah, I was aware of that. Naughty Dog did a similar thing with their toolchain.

Lisp seems to have been damaged by the functional programming dogma more than anything else, the more I learn about it. Which is a shame, because the functional parts are good. But so were all of the toolchains around interop with other systems.
Move to name Paris street after Steve Jobs has leftists up in arms
Which resulted in the employer driven insurance disaster that exists now...
The research paper linked in the article essentially recommends only a few apps that scored high enough to properly engage you into learning meditation, and none of them appear to be games, but use gamification techniques:

* Headspace

* Smiling Mind

* iMindfulness

* Mindfulness Daily
There's good socialization and bad socialization. Prisons also serve as a place for their inmates to socialize, but I'm not rushing to sign my daughter up so she can "play and explore" there.
Optimising method-missing and the rest of the meta-object model in a JIT is now a solved problem - I solved it for my PhD http://chrisseaton.com/phd/

It is actually possible to completely remove the overhead of method-missing.
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It's time to retire that interview script
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In what way is the wage gap argument even relevant here? This is a measurable thing, and people can discuss and debate actual facts. As you pointed out, some analyses of the data don't indicate a systematic bias. Regardless of what you believe, there are data and factual statements that can be made. But it's also utterly irrelevant.

On the other hand, you've made the claim that a very large number of people who oppose Trump want to suppress the freedoms of his supporters. This is a falsifiable claim, but you say that it cannot be measured and you can't provide any other proof or evidence. This is commonly known as "making shit up".

If this argument is valid, then I can argue that most Trump supporters secretly want to bomb England. I can't measure it or provide any evidence, but it's clearly true, because I said so.
Applied Cryptography is also one of the free advanced courses on Udacity:

https://www.udacity.com/course/applied-cryptography--cs387
Certainly it is not possible to deduce every law governing the Universe! For example posit there is source code for the Universe; then assume a second Universe that is identical except its source code differs in that after 35 billion years suddenly something happens - but since there is no way to investigate the laws directly, nobody inside could possible "deduce" the complete set of laws, there is no way to know that the source code contains a check that gets tripped after 35 billion years. Since only one of the two versions is the one running the universe, but it is not possible to determine which one, therefore the inhabitants of the Universe cannot deduce the laws that govern them: for the first 35 bn years the two universes are bit for bit identical.

So if I wanted to assume there is a one hundred megabyte source code that somehow was actually exactly the source code governing the entire Universe, I'd have to assume that axiomatically. We could never "deduce" it and know for certain that it is the only possible source code and our Universe must be following exactly it and nothing else.

At least, this is my thinking...
(Some) Dems reps in W. Pa. while possibly mistaken have said differently. They mentioned people switching party reg[1] among other things.

[1]http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/10/12/nearly-100000-penn...
Gambia was recently the subject of an attempted coup by a group of Gambian-American immigrants.

It's a really fascinating story. A group of middle-aged middle-class immigrants from Gambia plotted, and attempted to overthrow Jammeh.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/21/how-former-us-...
>Only 11% of people know this secret.

Sounds like a feature discoverability problem. Does Heinz have a UX team?
Efficiently storing and analyzing vast amounts of data isn't very difficult these days - esp if the data is something that they can monetize.
Relevant post: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi...
This is slightly tangential since you specified a conspirator on the inside, but how easy is it to break a homegrown encryption algorithm if you don't have the source code? I assume there are tools (what are they?) that will break a simple caesar cipher if you have more than a sentence or so of plain text to work with. But if you strung together 2-3 broken algorithms and your attacker doesn't know which ones, is it still trivial to decrypt?
why is this down voted ?
Where is the best place to start?
Ask HN: What is the most important thing when you choose a freelancer for work?
Please write here just one thing that matters to you when you decide to go with a freelance software developer hire.
I was talking about mid-level engineers in startups, not senior engineers in banks, if you want to compare big employers, £80-£120k is nothing compared with $250-300k you get as senior developer in Silicon Valley.
Not the poster but Tokamaks reactors makes energy for maybe 50 minutes at a time before it has to be shut down. This is due to it's 2D magnetic fields.

While Stellarator reactors use 3D magnetic fields in a modulus loop which can have a continuous energy output.
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> some other structure hanging onto the original reference.

Let's unleash the superpower of C. You should've been using pointers to a pointer so that it is always a single reference to a memory block.

You can't really be programming in C if you're not thinking in pointers.

One more thing; The article should have mentioned "pointer increment" which has nothing to do with "+= 1".
It seems like there are two very different groups being discussed here: the "I think I can do a better job of educating my kids than the state" homeschoolers and the "I want to protect my kids from this immoral society" homeschoolers.

I don't know which is more prevalent but all the homeschoolers seem to think of themselves as being in the first group, and most of the vitriol is aimed at the second group, so there's a lot of people talking past each other.
This is fantastic write up! I've bookmarked this one for future reference. Kudos to the author!
>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan.

I wonder how much that would solve and how much it would make worse? I think that I've heard that adding more lanes to roads can make congestion worse because more people use the roads. I wonder if the same would be true for pedestrian walkways?
I guess you could get really technical. Cholesterol is a steroid.

Or you could just infer they are talking about controlled anabolic steroids without a prescription.
Natural Resource Economics is a whole field largely devoted to determining the market value of natural resources (trees, rivers, clean air, all sorts of stuff). It's messy work and difficult for reasons that others have pointed out. But it's certainly a real thing, and incredibly useful for policy-making, where being able to speak in dollar-amounts is crucial.
It goes the other way too. Isn't boto now the official python AWS library?
Aikido in particular seems to be very subtle, both in my experience and the opinion of an aikido black belt I've asked about it. If you restrict yourself to aikido techniques and your attacker has no such reservations, you have to be extremely good. I think it would be a mistake to give up on self-defense in general because of that. In any case, you have to go into it knowing it's not a guarantee, it just increases your odds.
I am reminded of my favorite poem[0]:

"Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / none will come / and then a lot'll."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour
Just want to say, I ran across your framework very quickly after getting an echo dot. I am looking forward to using your much-easier-to-use-and-not-tied-to-aws framework for quick skill development.

Thank you for providing such a useful library! It is better than the amazon version!
That's a bummer they couldn't make things work. I used CyanogenMod before they turned into a company on some older Andriod phones.

The community did make a great ROM and I was hoping they would shake things up. Hopefully, force manufacturers from releasing such bloated horrible custom versions of Android.
That's one of the things discussed in the article:

"To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies."
Great tips in other comments. Will give some more.

Don't use Windows 10 Bash Shell. I thought it would be a holy grail for development, but if you write in you linux filesystem from a Windows app, you will mess everything. Maybe even have to reinstall.

Use Vagrant to create your Linux environment. If you match Ansible with it, you will have a marvelous reproductible dev environ that you can use everywhere. Put your Vagrant and Ansible scripts in a Bitbucket repository.

Configure a folder to be shared files between your machines.
Of the people quoted in the article complaining it is too crowded it appears one is from Detroit, one is from Egypt, and one is from rural Illinois.
I set a high bar for my kids and I don't treat them like "little snowflakes". I interact with them on a regular basis and I set strong boundaries that come with consequences & rewards. I explain the way the world works (as best as I understand it) from a very young age.

EVERY child is unique and so there is no one way fits all to raising well-behaved and well-socialized children, so I adapt. I stay engaged with teachers at school and follow up when something goes wrong.

Teachers are often afraid to tell parents "bad things" about their child because so many parents are defensive and think their child can do no wrong. I try to recognize my children's shortcoming so that I can help then to improve.

When I first meet with a teacher I tell them this and that I truly want to hear about issues. I will tell the teacher, "In the past we have seen that X is an issue for him/her and s/he is working on improving on that area. If this or any other issues comes up let me know right away so we can correct it at home before it gets worse." I have found that this is more effective than just saying I want their feedback as teachers often think that is just lip service.

I set strict boundaries and rules and then I consistently enforce them. Often times I explain why a rule is there, but sometimes I just say, "I have my reasons." I find that in general children are more compliant with rules when they understand the reasoning, but the reasons behind some rules are too complicated for children to understand.

Apparently, these things work as my children are all high achievers and very well behaved compared to the majority of children I encounter on a daily basis. Other parents often ask me what is the trick to having such well-behaved kids.

My youngest daughter was a real handful the first couple of years in school and my wife and I had to put in a lot of work to change her behavior. Things that worked for the first two children had zero impact on her. Eventually, we figured it out. One of the most interesting things was that she had the same teacher for 1st grade and 2nd grade due to some re-org that happened at the elementary school. Out of the blue one night I received a phone call from her teacher (while she was in 2nd grade); when I answered the phone I assumed the teacher was calling to tell me there had been some sort of incident. Instead the teacher said how she just wanted to call to say what a pleasure it was having her in class and how she didn't know what we had been doing, but that it was amazing how well behaved she was.

So to sum up; if you are going to have kids then step up and be a parent.
We initially wanted to deploy simple scala services to lambda, but the ramp up time is just too slow. This is an issue when you have very few requests (your container is stopped and started) or many requests (more containers have to be started) We now only deploy js and go to lambda and both work great. Curious to to learn how the c# runtime behave in these scenarios.
I think we agree. Its hard to encapsulate everything, so I just chose a smaller context for my argument. I was primarily thinking about resource allocation and such.

A HLL does indeed allow you to compose solutions to problems in terms of higher level abstractions, which I gather is your point.
I want / for division for the same reason that I want + for addition. (Pascal doesn't make you say 'plus'...)
I have more hope in the German fusion reactor that was constructed in 2015. It would provide continus energy output and not the 50 minutes or so outburst of energy of the ITER reactor.

http://newswise.com/articles/pppl-and-max-planck-physicists-...

"Stellarators confine the hot, charged gas, otherwise known as plasma, that fuels fusion reactions in twisty -- or 3D -- magnetic fields, compared with the symmetrical -- or 2D --fields that the more widely used tokamaks create. The twisty configuration enables stellarators to control the plasma with no need for the current that tokamaks must induce in the gas to complete the magnetic field. Stellarator plasmas thus run little risk of disrupting, as can happen in tokamaks, causing the internal current to abruptly halt and fusion reactions to shut down."
You're right that given the long view of history wide spread adoption of formal, especially public, education is a relatively new phenomena, but this is completely irrelevant.

The reason why public education became wide spread starting in the middle of the 19th century was the industrial revolution and the need for a more educated work force. Prior to that, an economy primarily devoted to subsistence farming, can can get by with an uneducated work force as it had for thousands of years. Suddenly with mechanization, you actually needed people that could do math.

Today, in the first part of the 21st century, with automation, and wealth inequality, the efficacy of education as the great leveler is clear by pretty much every economic study. In light of this, it doesn't make sense to go back to a hodgepodge curricula at best.

Second, and perhaps most important, in the 19th century and before you had women whose jobs were to stay home and raise children to the ripe age of 12, at which point if they were a boy, they'd start working with their father in the fields until the they reached 17 at which point they'd marry the 15 year old girl from down the road and start a new farm.

Today, 60% of the households in the United States are dual income, and it's been about this high since the 1990s.[0] the reason for that are many, including the growth of secondary education among women who don't want to stay home all day, to the harsh reality that it's hard for most people to make do with a single income.

Let's not pussy foot around this. One of the modern roles of public education is child care, albeit crappy child care because it starts at 8am and ends at 3pm, thus leaving late afternoons a problem for dual income families.

So let's be honest here. If you abolished public education for homeschooling, you're cutting household income in half, and getting a lower quality educational product, because most people can't adequately educate their children both from a curricula and by a methodological viewpoint.

And while you haven't brought it up, going to a completely private educational system won't work either because quite frankly, most people can't afford to pay the equivalent of buying a car every year per child. Again, we tried this as society in the 18th and 19th centuries. It didn't work.

We don't need to repeal the 20th Century. We already had the 18th and the 19th. They sucked.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-20...
"Foul on the shot"

"Oh, that wasn't a foul"

"Yes it was"

"Are you going to make a federal case about this?"

"Yes. Yes I am."
Unfortunately Azanor's Thaumcraft is closed-source, so not a great example. King_Lemming (and the COFH team) have historically been closed-source as well, but they recently moved to visible source (sadly, probably due to leaving the scene).

Those are the major exceptions though. Mekanism, EnderIO, Forestry, really all the other big mods are completely open source now. There's been a big shift in attitudes on that topic.

For contrast, when I first got into modding nearly all the mods were closed-source. IC2, RedPower, Equivalent Exchange, Railcraft, and so on. Very glad to have seen this ethos shift.
Missing is Aaron's base salary in this reply. 3% at different annual salaries can mean an awful lot to a lot of people.

As a manager, and also as someone who has done similar herculean efforts, it can be 'dangerous' to reward such efforts because it becomes the norm, you are expected to put in this kind of effort on a regular basis.

My take: if this guy was expected to spend three weeks completely rebuilding the architecture of a core system, then (a) his management layer sucks and he should have quit for that reason alone and I imagine that had more to do with the resulting layoffs later on, (b) retooling a system in three weeks of non-stop effort, even with minimal sleep is about 300-350 hours of work -- even spread out that's about 8-10 weeks of "regular" effort, which as a 20yr vet in the industry, doesn't sound like that complex of a system.
I don't know enough about neuroscience to determine if this is a possible genius revelation or quackery or somewhere in between. Any scientists willing to comment?
Interesting article, but my comment is re. Medium's UI: they break space/page-down/page-up, due to the bar at the bottom of the page: one loses a line of text when spacing down, and then when going up a line with a cursor key, a box drops down and hides several lines. Horrible, horrible UX.
Agree with this. A few days after I started, the engineering manager (the guy who hired me) quit. After that, it was kind of a clusterfuck because the CEO refused to make any real decisions because he was afraid of upsetting any of the engineers. As a result, very few decisions got made, and any deadlocks resulted in hours of frustrating and anger on both sides. I tried to put my foot down on one of the projects that I owned and essentially said, "You put me in charge of this project, and this is how I want to do it," but the "committee" overrode my decisions and the CEO didn't back me up. A terrible way to run a team. I left a few months later.

So yes, I agree. Even if you don't have a manager, there must be a decision maker that has the authority and freedom to make those decisions, even if they don't directly manage the others.
I agree SQL is not perfect but I don't know of many examples of alternative languages (that are not completely proprietary).

It honestly would be helpful to see some alternatives that you think are actually good (as the ones I have seen in the past are fairly awful). The homogeneous rows point is valid but I'm not entirely sure even SQL requires that (as you can have non scalar data types as columns in many databases... although I suppose that is to your point about postgres).

And yeah I mainly only use Postgres so I'm biased :)
It's not really a huge secret that there are lots of families out there where the parents aren't very involved in their children's lives. I'm not passing judgement on those children at all, I'm simply making the point that maybe I should be as proactive as possible in shaping my children's attitudes and responses to social situations, rather than counting on other children at school to "socialize" them. I remember what it was like to be a kid in school, which is why the "Lord of the Flies" reference rang a bell with me. Children are capable of horrific savagery, it's our job as parents to guide them as best we can in the right direction.
Yes, like I've said, I've been there in my day to day. My question is why they are profound. Maybe it's because others are capable of being distanced from it eventually. It's profound when you(general) don't have to stay "there", can "come back" and relate how open minded and intelligent and elightened one is now.
There's a disconnect between founders who want to build a startup and founders who want to build a business. They think the two are the same but they're really not and this study clearly shows that. There are situations where startups turn into businesses but I'd rather build a profitable business for myself from the start and our team than to build a startup purely focused on "growth".
Finding this a little late by HN standards, but this author is full of nonsense.

From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

"Rules about packaging and distribution details

Rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, if they don't substantively limit your freedom to release modified versions, or your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. Thus, it is acceptable for the license to require that you change the name of the modified version, remove a logo, or identify your modifications as yours. As long as these requirements are not so burdensome that they effectively hamper you from releasing your changes, they are acceptable; you're already making other changes to the program, so you won't have trouble making a few more."

And yes it says in explaining freedom 2 & 3:

"The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable forms of the program, as well as source code, for both modified and unmodified versions. "

But I argue being required to remove Canonical/Ubuntu legally protected artifacts does not in anyway "effectively hamper" someone from releasing their changes.

But regardless, so what? Calling them out won't change anything. When does that ever work? They've crafted a justification. The only way to get them to change is stop using Ubuntu.