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I think the major issue is polarization and stereotyping. You cannot have a sensible discussion without being labeled this or that. You cannot agree/disagree with anything anyone says or you'll be labeled that person's "supporter" or "hater".
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Interesting the 8 inch floppys look similar to the ones used in the IBM displaywriter hard sectored and made a distinctive "graunching" sound when the drives where accessed.
> he was forthright in admitting that it's not a priority within the context of Netflix's current goals due to a resignation that it's not a fight worth the resources

I think that's dangerously short-termist. The end of network neutrality will consume far more resources in the long term than the disarray of a resignation that will be forgotten bynext year.

Sure, they can afford the deals with carriers this year, and next. But once they're locked-in the fees will just keep rising. Why wouldn't Comcast, for example, keep raising the preferred-bits delivery fee? They'd be negligent not to do so.

I was hoping that the big Internet content-giants would ignore the pay-for-priority-delivery model that is emerging; if no-one paid for first-class delivery then the pricing model would collapse. However it seems that they'll just fall in line and accept it as a cost of business, increasing the 'cost' to their customers to compensate.
How is protecting your borders, a military base, etc oppressive?

Yes, the technology could be repurposed for nefarious uses, but so can just about every other technology. Machine learning, for example, probably has some excellent military applications.
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So since state interference is the cause for unaffordable tuition costs, more state interference will fix the problem ?
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Can't one test a layout built with IB? Load it in a unit test for instance?
https://www.gofundme.com/help-this-brave-gentrifier-family

Luckily they are still brave souls in this world, willing to help them
You may be more right than you think.

I keep being reminded of when Oslo opened their second needle room, closer to the more affluent areas of the city.

All of a sudden the got well dressed visitors driving expensive vehicles. These were people that stopped by to get their dosage done before landing some deal or making some high level decision that day...
Look at steemit.com (steem.io) for a glimpse of the application of blockchain to social media.

Basically: the blockchain's ability to represent value turns upvotes into microdonations.

Suddenly writers of popular content are rewarded in liquid tokens for their efforts. That's a pretty big deal.

The internet itself is a shiny new hammer. Turns out you can bang on a lot of different things with it and actually cool things happen.
This is a common meme in Australia as well with the 'housing affordability crises' that's happening here (as well).

"See! Buying a home is so easy! All you need is your parents to give you tens of thousands and you're set!"
The average wage in Canada is $50k. The median family income is $76k. That's before taxes and living expenses.

If you can drop nearly three times the entire median family income per year for half a decade on renovations alone, you're not 'cash-strapped'.
I don't understand the appeal to aesthetics at all.

Is a lump of rock more aesthetically pleasing than a statue?

It assumes that whatever the end result of terraforming is, will be less aesthetically pleasing than the current vista. This is clearly a flawed assumption. There's no evidence that it is true.

Aesthetics is also subjective. Some people prefer deserts, some people prefer beaches, some people prefer forests. If you prefer deserts, I guess terraforming Mars will be an aesthetic loss. If you prefer any other form of terrain, then it'll be a win.
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Indeed. I get that certain areas of certain cities are simply more expensive to live in, but they make it sound like they are practically living in the slums and one missed mortgage payment from the streets in their million dollar house.

Cry me a river.
That sounds like a very weak plan to me.

If someone does not behaves like you expect him to you should tell just that, but adding a label to it(insult) is extremely dangerous.

The reason is because there is something called the ego, that are the beliefs that someone has about herself. Those beliefs get ingrained by repetition memory like artificial learning.

English have a problem in the language not differentiating between being in a temporary state and being forever. In Spanish for example you differentiate between being temporary(estar) and being forever(ser).

In other words whether you tell a kid that she is temporary fat(está gorda) or that she is fat forever(es gorda) makes an enormous difference and impression on her mind. If you repeat so much that she is fat(forever) she will start to identify herself as a fat kid forever and whatever she does.

This is behind so many problems in adults.
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Following Handmade Hero is always a good idea.

http://handmadehero.org/
How does one go about due diligence before buying a house ? Do you hire a law firm ? What are their fees ? It is hard to imagine dropping half a million sight unseen, especially since it is not insignificant for the people in the article, but how much would it have cost them had they hired a lawyer/firm ?
If bitcoin is the only world currency and money velocity is constant, it will rise/fall by the same percent as the world economy. We already have a similar financial instrument - Vanguard total world stock ETF. Why this ETF does not produce a deflationary spiral? I think the answer is the same for bitcoin.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=3141&...
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Read up on Sudbury schools. The trick is to treat kids like real human beings. Don't tell them what to do beyond what is needed to form a functioning community and environment. Let them figure themselves out. Let them succeed and fail, be jerks (within limits that respect other's need for safety and support) and be angels, all under their own power. Don't worry about academic achievements as that stuff comes really easy once a person masters being a human.
Well, you know, just be yourself, unless of course your are shit...

Also, do keep in mind that there are a lot of losers out there. Changes are your are a loser.

See, this is a silly road to take.
> A little more than a year later, Barrowford found itself in the news again. Ofsted had given the school one of its lowest possible ratings, finding the quality of teaching and exam results inadequate. The school, their report said, “emphasised developing pupils’ emotional and social wellbeing more than the attainment of high standards”. Somehow, it seemed, the nurturing of self-esteem had not translated into higher achievement.

Maybe Ofsted is measuring the wrong things.
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Adherence to Conway's Law is regarded as a good thing, but not that way round. We want to build the teams to match the architecture of the software we're building, not vice versa. If you don't cut it that way, you're always going to be swimming upstream.
We're fighting an insurgency that is distributed across organizations and borders. Historical precedent would suggest this will not end with the annihilation of the insurgency, some of whom will currently be civilians, but with some kind of peace process.

The problem with calling this a war is that the right-wing press are calling this a war. This is not an existential threat to us in the way, say, WW2 was to the Soviet Union or to the UK once we had engaged militarily. We could withdraw from bombing campaigns in the middle east tomorrow and see almost no immediate detrimental domestic repercussions. That is probably a sign that this is not so much a war but something else. If it was domestic we would call it a massacre.

The more we go down the road of annihilation, the more costly that peace process will be and the more people will die purely for war. That includes our own.
That the Netherlands isn't as tolerant and open-minded as it seems to have fooled the rest of the world into thinking so. The man walks around calling Moroccans scum, even in Brexit Britain this would _never_ be tolerated.
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It was me that wrote the article. If you have time could you elaborate? I'll gladly read and hear anything that proves that what I wrote is completely wrong
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Check out 500 Lines or less https://github.com/aosabook/500lines

I just can't recommend it enough. All the projects are open source, so you can review the source code and still be walked through the code by book. You'd learn why the programmers made certain trade offs and how the applications became better of for it
We already have Snoopers Charter, aswell as High Court-blocked websites. She's probably going to demand a UK Cert Authority that they can use for "securing" and then someone will find out the CA.
People make amazingly complex music in Digital Audio Workstations. Personally I think there is some inspiration to draw from their use/function into the programming experience.
If the only outcome of this story would be this ridiculous hate piece from Vice, it would still be worth it. I can feel bad for someone down on their luck, but when they show their political colours like that, I can only feel shadenfreude at someone getting exactly what they deserve.
Perhaps I missed it, I can't find in the article where they claim a hardship status. Could you point be to it?

He's an education PhD and she's an online editor, they have two kids. They borrowed heavily and sold their old house to finance their new one.

I suppose because it's written by a middle class woman and not a desperately poor person then her story is abhorrent to HN.
I think that blaming current narcissistic trends on this guy is extremely naive: as so many others point out these are pervasive all over the western world. And it ignores more fundamental changes, like the growth of private mass media which is now ubiquitous, the permeation of the advertising language into our daily lives, the take-over of the Internet by corporations that profit precisely from our individualization, and other consequences of a decades long ideological war on any form of collectivist thought.
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All these altcoins seems to be speculation, does anybody actually use them as currency?
Toronto is full of small houses, as I'm sure are parts of New York City.

You don't see McMansions until you get out to the suburbs and bedroom communities.
The issue is Theresa May doesn't understand the Internet and outlawing encryption or similar would be idiocy.
Property sizes by country: Canada, at 72 sq m per person, comes third to Australia and the USA.

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house
But there are already more applicants than jobs. Labour is a buyer's market at the moment.
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Parents on the side of sports games seems to be a problem the world over. I've heard of it directly in both Belgium and England with Football (Soccer) games.

Parents will subvert the will of the coaches wanting their kid to shine rather than as part of a team.

Parents and grandparents will continually scream to their children what to do or abuse at the referee.
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I'm totally with you - I saw the Foxconn suicide rates at the time and thought both "That sounds very troubling" and then "How many employees do they have? Actually that sounds quite low, perhaps this is a bit of a storm in a teacup", and then I did a bit of googling and concluded that people throwing themselves off the roof of their workplace, probably in protest over the working conditions, ought to be considered a different sort of suicide from the ones that normally make up national suicide rates.

On the other hand, employing north of a million people to do assembly work probably comes with all sorts of challenges.
Personally, I'd find that far more entertaining than yet another show with people complaining about their builders not turning up on time (not that I watch these you understand).

"What did you expect? They're builders! Have you ever seen a film where the hero is a builder? No, no, because they never f-cking turn up in the nick of time. Bat-builder? Spider-builder? Huh? That's why you never see a superhero with a hod!"

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Here's an overlooked one: your dependencies.

Every programmer should read the (presumably open source) code they depend on, but almost nobody does it. Some look at documentation, but not everyone even does that. What you may find is that some of the code you depend on is garbage, and may even motivate improvements.

This may be less feasible for giant messes such as most front-end tooling and frameworks that exist today.
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Outlawing Encryption? Every single person in the UK will start using Tor or similar. Want to try to ban that? Goodbye UK economy.
They borrowed heavily. Are you really getting upset over "cash-strapped"?

How about you just look up the definition of this phrase?
This only makes things worse.

Try being a kindergarten teacher in the US and spend a ton of time on Twitter complaining how you gender isn't represented enough in your industry.
I think we've reached a point in society where having your livelihood taken from you is the same as being jailed, aka "thrown in cages".

The difference, of course, is that it isn't the government doing it. It's the general population.

I'm of 2 minds about it because I don't want to support anyone that supports racism.

But I also feel that people deserve second chances. People do learn from their mistakes, and they have to be allowed to continue on afterwards or there's no point in changing.

I haven't heard of Luckey apologizing, but that isn't surprising because the media doesn't think that's good enough news to broadcast. They only publish the worst stuff, not the best. He might have done so and I'd have no idea.
Perhaps we should no longer assume that politicians 'do not understand the internet' and assume they are asking for changes in the full understanding that they don't achieve the goal for which they're introduced.

As long as the situation that's being created is more favourable for them than the current one it's a net benefit.

Short-term politics is the biggest threat to UK society at the moment and the current government is particularly good at it.
The common pattern of applying the same macro to each of the rows/columns can be seen as a SIMD/vectorized operation with the affected cells as inputs and outputs.
I don't think that it's laziness that makes people not reduce the tip. I think that, somehow, when there is a default that becomes a kind of anchor and going below that is seen as ruder than it would have been if the customer was able to choose their own tip% independent of a suggestion.

At least that's kind of how I feel when I take a cab in NYC where the default tip% buttons on the credit card machines are 20/25/30.
Seems like the best language to compare cobol to is probably assembler, with a lot of #defined macro expansions?
In the UK or at least the north of Ireland 20 years ago it was illegal to have information useful to terrorists. It is information crime. (It was usually used if the victim was also being prosecuted for membership of the IRA.)
"Since programmers caused all the bugs, more programmers will fix them?"

Well, yes; software is on average more reliable today than 15 years ago.

This has the same structure as your argument and is incorrect, so you have to add something specific to government to repair the argument structure.
I agree with most of the sarcastic comments but

> [...] broom-swept condition

> This is the first time in my life I have ever heard this phrase, in all its privilege-dripping glory. The more you know, I guess. Carry on.

"Besenrein" is a pretty normal thing if you rent out something in Germany. In fact, every holiday-house-rental and every rented flat / house I ever helped moving, this was the standard.

Even when we went to Switzerland and France - so isn't this a thing at all in the US?
I read that but the country part still confuses me--it's a very odd way to refer to a person. This made me wonder if it was a reference to something. "No Country for Old Men", for example, is from the first line of "Sailing to Byzantium", a poem by Yeats.
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After being stuck with a really, really bad laptop for the past 4 years, I can't disagree more whole-heartedly. I wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy, heh.

Though I wish more time was spent on some tools to make them more memory efficient(I'm looking at you, scala and friends), that's just not how it is today. I just bought a new laptop with 32 gigs of ram, and hopefully that is future-proof for the next few years.
People need to start somewhere. The project might be f-ed but at least the dev will learn.
There is a clear difference between debating political views and witch hunting though.

People are having to write public apologies for having their own views or engaging in free speech

So would you see a boycott as a "witch hunt"? After all, the point is to force an organization, or its leaders, to disavow opinions or positions. Do people not have the right to collectively speak in that fashion?

Because ultimately that's what these "witch hunts" people wring their hands about boil down to: organized action by people who disagree.

What's worse is that while trying to cloak yourself in "free speech", you're really making an argument that is virulently hateful to it. The only way not to have the "witch hunts" you're so terrified of is to stifle speech. The only way not to have people pressured into public apologies is to stifle speech. You cannot have "free speech" and not have the potential for consequences in the form of large numbers of people disagreeing with or disassociating from you. What you really seem to want is a freedom of first speech -- in other words, someone who speaks first gets a special privilege of never having to deal with people disagreeing, or consequences of the general public's views of their speech. And if that is what you want, you should stop calling it "free speech" and start calling it "privileged special protection for certain speakers", since that's what it would actually be.
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Embedded DSLs (using the general purpose programming language as the host) is the way to go for an integrated workflow/experience.
I think the same is the case for visual programming languages/tools.
A good donation to EFF for a freedom campaign would go a long way at coordinating the fight. And boost their image.
Most likely, yes:

Using light:
http://gizmodo.com/a-new-light-based-transistor-could-comple...

Building on memristors:
http://www.memristor.org/reference/research/13/what-are-memr...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-mysteriou...

Neural network inspiried chips:
http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml

I think we will see some breakthrough after the CPU industry goes into an existential crisis about going below 5nm. Current pipelines are just so damn expensive to replace that we will see gradual innovations. For example TPU-s[1] might be a standard in a few years like GPU-s are now.

The current trends are clearly in reducing power usage and size. That alone will be a huge innovation when I can hold a "server farm" in my pocket.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/
Not wholly, but partially. It doesn't matter much if you believe in yourself when few others do. The social group is more verifying your self-esteem.
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Sooo... Minecraft is a visual programming tool, then?
Also, this nugget:

"Finally, Julian called in a professional. Peter was reliable, organized, patient and came with glowing references. He was the contractor we should have hired from the start—in fact, Julian had already interviewed him twice but we had passed because he was charging market rate."
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Intel asm opcodes are translated to processor-specific microcode instructions.
The "microcode updates" actually rewrite the microprograms for each opcode.
If users had access to microcode(not likely anytime soon) very powerful optimizations could be done to create optimal instruction sets for each task.

Another approach is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_instruction_set_computing
Which allows programming the CPU directly without relying on static instruction sets(essentially programming at or below microcode level).
Hopefully they disabled all the telemetry and advertising crap.
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This. F-ing North Americans with their f-ing empty praeries :-)
On the other hand it can be really tricky to reconstruct an understanding of a non-trivial system which someone else made from the textual code.
With visual diagrams overall architecture can be conveyed quickly and relatively concisely.
All of this depends on the type of service the company offers, your contract, your country, and other stuff.

For example in my company we have 5 support engineers who self-organized their rotation. The important thing is that someone is available from 1 pm to 2 pm to 6 pm till 8 pm, because one of our clients pays for that time range.

The engineer needs to answer phone calls and emails in a timely manner, depending on the issue (from 30 minutes for issues that impact business operation to 4 hours for minor stuff, like resetting a password).

They get paid a little for the time they're available and roughly the same as overtime if they actully need do something.

This is in Italy and, I want to really stress this, it's how it works at my company and with our customers.
>and more people included in your sample, more chance of finding amazing A++ engineers that can help the industry, your dev platform, etc...

Well, whatever. Myself, I was just about to look into Electron having heard so much about it lately. But if this is how they run things, I think I'll just look elsewhere to satisfy my cross-platform development curiosities.
Well, why not?

If those "thinkers" were really contributing something valuable, that will show up in ROI. If you don't agree with that measure, how do you propose to eliminate completely useless classes and make space for better alternatives? Do you just assume that any classes that are part of the status quo must be valuable?
You can't go back to the previous status quo any more than you can ask your mother to "bear you back" because you don't like living outside.

Trying to pretend you can is one of the most dangerous things a politician can ever do.
I really like what Buterin writes - but Cryptoeconomics is a misleading name - it more like crypto-game-theory i.e. much narrower than the name suggests.