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> don't kids have a right to not let their parents know?

Quite frankly: no. As a kid, you aren't mature enough or developed enough to be trusted to make reasonable decisions. That is why you have a guardian and that is why you get some leeway in court. It is also why you tend to not be allowed to consent to many things.

You can keep your banging your boyfriend from your parents (but they probably know. Kids aren't that smart. ESPECIALLY when crotches are involved), but they should, if they wish, know where you are. Because they are responsible for you and are responsible for dealing with your screw-ups. If that means humping in a car or at a friend's place while their parents are out of town: Welcome to being a teenager.

Being a kid is about screwing up. A LOT. Being a parent is about being the safety net for those screw-ups. And that involves being able to find your dumbass kid when they do what kids do.

As for abuse: The parents who want to know where you are 24/7 already can. Just install an app to do it or use Find my iPhone/Android. If anything, this is less invasive as the child can decline to share location and just call to say "I'm alright".
In which countries is it legal to install a DIY actuator system like this one?
This is great advice and advice I wish I taken onboard earlier. As a technical founder Ive found myself making a large set of assumptions which are usually proved to be incorrect when going to the market.

Going into the market and talking to your customers early on so you can answer those two questions will really help tell you if you have a viable idea.
#1 is a good chair. It's a cliche, but my Aeron has lasted for the entire 12 years of it's warranty (and they've shipped replacement parts out whenever needed), and has been worth every penny I spent on it.

The newly redesigned version[1] looks attractive as a replacement (probably in 2018).

After that, I would say #2 is a good keyboard, but specific recommendations are very personal. Suffice it to say that you probably want to spend at least $150 (and possibly 2-3x that) for the right keyboard for you. I am very likely to purchase a Keyboardio Model 01[2] next to replace my venerable Unicomp buckling spring keyboard[3].

Once you have the ergonomics of your work environment adjusted to your physique, you can commit to an extra hour or more every day of studying (by using) new tools, libraries, languages, etc. without unnecessary stress on your body.

[1] http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...

[2] https://shop.keyboard.io

[3] http://www.pckeyboard.com/
That's the "sound" of your braincells dying. At least that's what I heard relating to tinitus.
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You know what's funny? Now that my parents are getting up there in age, I want to track their locations so I can be sure nothing is wrong.
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Except it's easier to control an all-electric vehicle with constant torque, no transmission, etc.
1Blocker is pretty well regarded right now, that's what I use.
Yup, mobile payment is so seamless in China
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Trump either:

The New York Times reported on Nov. 6 that Trump “does not use a computer,” which explains why he was perplexed at his campaign spending millions of dollars on digital ads. - http://qz.com/829647/donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton-dont-k...

http://gizmodo.com/has-donald-trump-ever-used-a-computer-176...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/09/27/trump_kno...
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Likely a banned account. If you think it's worthwhile, you can click "vouch" to reanimate it, as it were.

Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12869685
I don't know about that. There seems to be something innate about one's ability to use computers.

My father is 85 and is quite good with computers; he uses email constantly, writes documents and books using word processors and understands the concept of files, reads on a Kindle, etc. But he had never touched a computer before he was maybe 70 (let alone own one), and before that he wasn't technical at all. He was trained as a Latin teacher (!) and spent his professional life in politics, never having to type anything by himself.

My father-in-law is very good at many manual tasks including woodworking, electricity, electronics, and was an officer in the French army for many years, where he was responsible for maintaining highly technical weapons. He too is 85 and he can't seem to understand computers, although I have known him for 15 years and have been trying to help him for that long. He seems to want to learn but isn't really interested in what one would call "the big picture", he just wants to know a list of actions that will get them to where he wants to go. Of course that approach fails miserably whenever something happens that's not on the list.

I have two friends who have been to top engineering schools who, I discovered recently, type whole urls not in the browsers' bar but in Google's search form. My eldest son is 11 and doesn't confuse the two. My younger son is 7 and doesn't seem much interested.
Honestly, I don't think it really matters if your kids are OK with it or not. They are still kids and you are responsible for them.

If they are 18 and paying for their own service, then fine, that's another story.

But until then, I don't think it even matters. Seriously, I feel people without children just don't understand how parent's feel.
I fully understand you can view, but "running" code is the entire point of an after-school computer programming class. As these are after school classes (but done in collaboration with the school), some resources the school has aren't available.

Also, how many middle school and high schools (especially title 1 schools) do you know have office365 for the teachers, let alone for each and every student?

Please don't regard this reply as being critical of the offering, it's certainly not and I applaud what you're doing, I'm more responding to the person who couldn't understand why login was a barrier.
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> Someone can already walk around a grocery store and see what's in my cart or they can just watch me checkout.

The problem with electronic surveillance is never the surveillance part. It's the part where we can surveil billions of people at once without the need for billions of spies.
To give you a definite answer:
Yes.

If you have a calloc, even along conditional paths, it will understand the value along that path is zero until the store, and that the zero is killed by the store.

What it will do varies, because it does not want to screw up the sparse memory usage.

But, for example, it even understands how to take the zero values + stores and turn them into a memset and kill the stores, etc.

It generally does not do something like split the allocation into a calloc and malloc+memset part, or whatever
Yes, but until AI is better than humans at everything it will not be perceived as intelligent, because true intelligence will be redefined as one of the things AI still is not capable.
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Oh that yet-another-product-Google-killed-off?

You must mean an Apple watch you can speak to, and a Microsoft Hololens...
Fair enough, it's an bad term. What I mean is instructing the computer to do something for them, not having to manually perform every action themselves. The sorts of things people do in excel but in a more automated way.

As for what phones are capable of, I'm aware. But they are the wrong tool for the job. For the most part the are walled gardens where the only things you can do are what some app developer thought you might like to do. The industry is stuck in a regressive state where we are trying to limit users, not empower them.
Humans appear to be hardcoded to find patterns even when (from a causal and mathematical perspective) they do not exist in the random data.

So "meaningful" output doesn't necessarily mean the input wasn't random.
As long as your parents are legally responsible for you, then no, you don't.

Once you are 18 and able to financially support yourself, then you are independent.
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The question is if a teen would be willing to sacrifice privacy for a free phone and service. If the teen isn't paying for the phone or service then they are the product.
Great, HN politics on politdetox week, of all things.
It's like a helpless excuse to be lazy and let someone else do the work

In my experience more often then not the 'not even trying' has nothing to do with wanting someone else to do it, but rather with being scared to mess up exactly because they feel they are not knowledgeable. That's pretty instinctive I think (e.g. the first time I used a chainsaw I was also rather hesitant as I basically knew sh*t about it) but sometimes also driven by the abdunance of horror stories heard about 'losing all mail/photos/....' (which is, given the person's skills, usually actually very hard to do for them).
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What car that comes fitted with the required radars/cameras doesn't have those features already though?
Thank you for posting.

There is no doubt that Africa is rising; the argument is pace of growth on the continent is not fast enough (one must keep in mind that African countries must benchmark their progress against other regions/continents). An interesting feature in my experience of growth in sub-saharan africa is that most of it is private sector rather than government driven- a case where the tail wags the dog.
In my kids UK primary school ICT (Info & Comp. Tech) amounts to playing games, not even computing focused ones just crappy flash games.

It's like teaching literacy by giving them only picture books. They'd be able to handle books, turn the pages, etc., just not actually use them properly.

With games like lightbot, apps like turtles and Scratch, and sites like code.org I can't really see the excuse for this.
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> You're

> increasingly

I've only given one (admittedly bad) example!
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The simulated environment also makes it more difficult. I accidentally tried to go back in the real browser instead of the simulated browser and broke the test. The simulated environment is also very slow.
It might be some kind of bias but I have always felt like when it comes to cars average Joe is at least capable of changing a tire, but when it comes to computers the very same person does not even seem to try.
> and as dang said the point is to avoid all topics which might offend people and turn political

This is an interesting example of 'seeing what isn't there'.

If you read dang's post[0] again you won't see mention of offence or instruction to avoid topics that might turn political.

You've erroneously extrapolated that from a pretty egregious misinterpretation of what was said.

In fact, with regards to 'topics that might turn political', the instruction was explicitly to flag threads within the topic and not the topic itself.

With regards to offence, dang never mentioned the word. Instead the focus was very much on promoting civility and avoiding the 'primitive brain'. The intent was nicely summed up in this sentence:

> The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when political emotions seize control.

See, it's not about offence, it's about promoting intelligent discourse. You've added the offence angle yourself because of what you personally think offence to be in this context, but it wasn't part of the original intent of dangs post and in fact it's at best a secondary or tertiary consideration to the primary one of keeping HN a civil and intellectually stimulating place.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
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> Additionally this week there is a political embargo

there is? is there some sort of announcement for this?
The first time my mother used a mouse was in 1989. She called me on the phone and said "the mouse is not working".

- What do you mean it's not working, does it move on the screen or not?

- Well, it moves but just a little.

- ??? Tell me more?!?

- When I do big movements it moves a little, but when I do small movements it doesn't move at all. I can't get it to cross the screen, even with momentum.

It took me a while to understand she was moving the mouse in the air; in those times mice had a ball that would indeed register movement if you shook the object hard enough.

This was fun and all, but in the end my mother learned to use computers and is now very good at it.
This was by far the first book on Clojure, it was there very early on when the thinking about 'what is Clojure' was still quite new. The Autor is now in some ways the Nr.2 in the Clojure ecosystem, he has influenced the language quite a bit.
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That's entirely true, but it's also problematic because although you have "computers handling the boring part" you still need constant human supervision.

If the human driver mentally switches off or stops paying attention, things get dangerous as has been demonstrated in numerous Tesla autopilot crashes.

That isn't to say that these features don't improve safety. Widespread introduction of radar-based automatic emergency braking (AEB) will significantly reduce crashes and save many lives. But until we're closer to 100% autonomy, features that reduce driver workload need to be implemented carefully.
I have to wonder how many of the claims of heroic work-weeks really are true. I think I have worked something close to 80-hour weeks once in my life, and it left me a complete zombie.
Wiki says it's an ancient urban legend.

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Is this a unofficial fork? Why is it not included with the main uBlock project?
He probably doesn't drive or cook either. Is that perhaps as much a rich person thing as anything? I suspect he does most things by proxy?
While his vitriol was extremely hyperbolic, I get his point somewhat on obtuse syntax.

Take this example of Haskell from their docs:

thenP :: P a -> (a -> P b) -> P b
m `thenP` k = \s ->
case m s of
Ok a -> k a s
Failed e -> Failed e

It doesn't matter how good you are in [insert almost any common language], you'll really struggle to understand that code.

It's my same objection to things like Coffeescript, if you think you are so much more productive not typing semantic tokens like ()s or {}s, then you need to lay off the coffee and get some sleep as you're clearly dillusional.
>And it produces no radioactive waste or other byproducts.

Well, not true. It's just that the waste it does produce is relatively alright, and becomes inert again within a century - as opposed to a few hundred thousand years.
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Presumably the Africans involved know it? This seems like a rather odd use of "no-one".
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>For example, plenty of democracies have flourished despite having libraries where silence is golden.

There is a difference between "not allowed to speak" and "not allowed to speak about politics". You can't speak under water, but a pond isn't the proof that democracy can't exist.
I don't know about too many others in the bioinformatics field, but I reckon I write about 80% of my code in Python and 20% in R. R for stats and plotting; Python for wrangling data. Having said that, they're the languages I learned in my studies (along with java) and I haven't had the time and motivation to move beyond them since.
Interesting bit of well-presented infographics. Sadly, economic development is the bread and butter of politics, so this has to be flagged.
Speaking of reconfiguration, why not buff the controversy penalty instead of outright banning political discussion?

Couldn't you also enable an enhanced slow mode on threads that seem political in nature? Maybe something like the "hate tax" system proposed here[1].

I feel as though political topics tend to generate a knee-jerk response in people, especially when they are in an...shall we say, altered state of mind. The more controversial a topic is, the slower the pace of discussion should be IMHO. Exponentially so.

[1] https://zedshaw.com/archive/ragel-state-charts/
I think we as parents sometimes should take a step back from our feelings and I think this is a prime example. Just because you feel a certain way (and pay for their phone) doesn't make it alright to push such an invading service onto your children. You feeling uneasy when your teenage child is out and about is your problem, not theirs, so you deal with it.
HN has no ban on porn that I'm aware of; erotica has been upvoted and no doubt will be again.
You're correct. Hours spent concern trolling are hours spent failing to oppose fascism.
'Teaching highly motivated students to code is actually not that hard.' - Well... It is hard. Motivation is not enough...

Basic mathematical knowledge + ability to think logically = success
Thanks for the clarification.

Your best bet is to involve them in activities that are completely non-tech related, and preferably don't try to engage the overworked analytical skills. It would be great if some (but not all) of the other folks participating are also techies looking to get away.

Movie nights, pot-luck dinners, low impact walking/hiking/cycling, drawing/painting lessons, pottery, museum visits, a book club, gardening, are all possibilities, and I am sure you can think of others.

Just, find a way to let the "burned out" capabilities rest while letting (not making) them engage with others on entirely different terms.
We are talking about specialization here, not repression.

There are tons of political forums where ppl can express their opinions and discuss them.

It just does not have to be here.
Now I get the whole picture, thanks for the clarification.
I've had the same issue with gmail. The back and reply buttons are nearly identical, the reply one is just a bit curvier. I don't know why google has a reputation for good UI's, most of the ones I've used have varied from decent to awful.
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China policies are very protectionist so you cannot say if those companies would be successful in a 'open' environment. Their competition is just blocked there.
My understanding is that it's easier to understand a simple source tree, you can understand how the more complex shells work underneath.

The author probably started it as a learning excercise.
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Look, I believe that the World in which we live now could have been worst without the sacrifices of a lot of great people like your father, a lot of people gived their lives so that next generations would live in a better world,but I think you would agree with me that the military wasn't always used to protect good values, I am from an african country that suffered occupation, and we know this side of it very Well, generaly the military isn't used only to protect the people of a country, it's also used to achieve evil ambitions, and I don't think that america for example spend 600 billions only because they want to secure their country, I don't think that this amount of money is used wisely, if some chunks of that money were moved and used to solve problems that matter I think the american people would be happier.
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It looks like the x,y are a bit slower than they should and that distorts the letters a bit. It'd be cool if we could read the geometry data out of the terminal. If it's a list of traces generated on the computer that gets refreshed from time to time, it may be easier.
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I got that. I think I provided a trivial way to do that. I might be wrong but how/why? Pick the new end point at p'(a) = curve(a), a[0..1], multiply the curve by 1/a. Same curve, new endpoint?
You might want to check where the word "civil" comes from...
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>Researchers estimate cases where the baby cannot fit down the birth canal have increased from 30 in 1,000 in the 1960s to 36 in 1,000 births today.

This could easily be explained by doctors being more willing to perform Caesareans than they were previously. No evidence is cited that the average width of women's pelvises has actually changed, so this is all wild speculation as far as I can see.

Of course, it is no surprise to see the HN crowd latching on to the idea that we should let more women die in childbirth.
At the very list give them dosbox and make them enable extended memory.
I'll say it once and quickly -- you've allowed yourself to be tricked by the same trick the modern alt-right (bigots, racists all) have used on the rest of the internet, where they make discourse on specific topics so toxic that the topic itself becomes banned, allowing the status quo to persist. You're literally now on their side, and their side is the status quo of white supremacy.

Think about what side you want to be on.
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> Literacy Rate [...] This is the biggest reason I am optimistic that Africa's progress will continue.

South Africa is rated as excellent in these slides, yet was placed second-last in a few TIMSS categories[1]. Progress won't happen if we cherry-pick data that makes things look better than they are, the education system in South Africa is in dire need of repair. Notably, all the problems at the universities this year. Additionally, instead of improving the quality of education, the government is lowering the passing mark.

[1]: https://press-admin.voteda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1_... https://press-admin.voteda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1_... https://press-admin.voteda.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1_...
It's ethically shitty to release open source software now? People who pull down some source from Github that has 4 commits, thinking it's legit and rely on it to drive your car are probably not too many. Those that do, are generally hard to protect from themselves in any area of life.
Yes, I am not aware of the wiki exports and yes, it is a lock in which we got ourselves into personally.
It is a human illness wanting to explain something to just stratify our rational thinking. In reality whenever there is a paradigm shift, the previous explanation becomes obsolete. So stop trying to explain things and go out an do it and experience for yourself.