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Is it?

On (Debian) linux boxes apt-get install <package>-dev and away you go, there's literally the whole platform ecosystem there for you to use.
in the kernel, it will kill your machine or create exploitable security holes. Check your malloc(3).
unless you come from former soviet bloc/sphere of influence/iron curtain, then anything-socialism is a grave insult and spit in your face.

we've seen it fail big time, and I'll take the evils of capitalism over those evils any day, any time.
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My grandad used to say if you learn to sail a small boat properly, you can then learn to sail a big boat, but if you learn to sail a big boat first, you'll never really learn to sail a small boat properly.

I think the analogy holds here.
Oh, if it's for cold brew than that's completely fine. Definitely not worth the price if that's all you're doing, but a grinder does give you the flexibility to make other types of coffee.
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I was going to use either FreeBSD or OpenBSD, but no 802.11ac support in either. Actually I should have just went with it anyway. I could only get my car working in n mode and someone else who e-mailed me after finding that post said that particular Intel card doesn't work in AP mode in 802.11ac on Linux; had to buy a different card entirely.
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“BASE jumping does not get safer with experience.”

Somebody should calculate P-value for that claim.
Oh you are right. I only quickly read the first paragraph or two of that section about the light in the eyes.
I can agree with that. There isn't a whole lot of utility in individual ICO's. However if you look at ICO's in general the concept is pretty remarkable, ICO's essentially facilitate the "move fast and break things" mentality of Silicon Valley. If ICO's work over the next 10 years (after the crash and into the future) that's a pretty great tool that Silicon Valley now has, they can now surpass the SEC and having the burden of pleasing investors and most importantly posting quarterly profits and still raise all of the money that they need.

This goes back to my original point that there is value in cryptocurrency and the technology behind it. It's just going through a period of explosive interest and growth, which in turn is causing the technology to get better rapidly.

The multimillionaire investors are going to be made over the next 3 years. The next google could come out of an ICO in 10, it's just a matter of the market correcting itself once the hype wears off.
Having a 5 year degree in Informatics Engineering, I doubt very much you could cram that much in 6 months.

Not at my university, with the amount of stuff we had to do, unless in the 20+ years that have gone by, they got the quality level down.
Ah, but you forget, then we can't browbeat the JavaScript-kiddies with our own seasoned superiority. (adjusts monocle)
> What bothers me about subscription pricing is how expensive it invariably turns out to be considering the amount of use I get out of a program.

I wonder if the problem is you're undervaluing your software. You're expecting a certain price point but often that's too low for a business to be sustainable.
Well, you are giving the source code to your clients - that's a huge advantage compared to your competitors. Good luck!
I would very much appreciate a link to your blog as well
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It may be typical if you are blind. It isn't if you are not (though obviously, you could train for it). Keep also in mind that the human brain has incredible capabilities when it's highly focused. Not having visual input removes a lot of distraction for our reptilian brain always scanning for threats.

In college, I had a friend who is blind and her screen reader speed setting was insane. I couldn't understand most of it despite being someone who watches videos and listens to audiobooks at 2x.

Her typing speed was also amazing. I have never seen anyone type that fast before or since.
I've been trying to keep up with that - I'm not really a big consumer in that area, but I agree with you that it will drive the market for VR.

So far, I've found that there is a lot of content being created and it seems like a lot of newer stuff is being shot in a way that is either natively VR or can be converted (I assume using a fisheye lens of some kind). Some of the big players in the industry have obviously put some effort behind it, but I'm not really sure what the adoption rate has actually been like.

I wonder if PornHub has released any metrics on viewership of their VR category. It seems like a bad idea to check at work, but I'll go check their blog tonight if I think about it.
Sure, the amount of materials needed exceeds what current technology can get even into LEO by several orders of magnitude. Nobody's proposing to actually build a lunar space elevator. All I'm saying is that a super-advanced civilisation could theoretically build one from the materials available to us today, which is not true for a space elevator from the Earth's surface.
Is the (pseudo?) code there for state mutation representative of a widely used pattern?
It looks like using a pattern from a functional programming book, but applied to mutable data. What I mean is this snippet:

function handleAddTodo(state) {
if (!newTodoField) {
state.error = 'Empty field!'
}

state.todos.push(state.newTodoField)
state.newTodoField = nil

return state;
}

This looks like a function newState = fun(oldState) but there is one huge problem: the new state is the same data as the old state? In a Rust-like type system this might be OK because you couldn't accidentally keep using the original state after sending it to this method, and in an immutable scenario there would be no problem because you created a new state instead of mutating. But this looks exactly like mutating the argument sent to a function.
So out of curiosity, do any modern UI frameworks in JS (this looks like that type of code) do this, or was it just an unfortunate example?
really like the idea of your company - hope I can use it one day!
s/FDA/regulatory agency with similar standards as the FDA/

An IRB is an institutional review board, not a government agency. It's basically an independent check on the trails.

The unethical bit is that there is no independent oversight and it's sketchy as hell to have a drug that's likely intended to be marketed in the US not clinically trialed in the US or equivalent jurisdiction in terms of ethical oversight. The FDA is cool with international drug trials as long as they are done to equivalent standards and the have an office that will go and check out other countries' compliance.

Again, this is not a beta app or some new frontend framework that has no meaningful impact on people. This could kill, and it's unethical to attempt to sidestep strong protections for the sake of some minimal extra cash.
I think so too. Given a mechanical context, a complication is very significant. People should think in those terms as there are no freebies.

Overly complicated mechanisms tend to be less robust, perform more poorly,require more energy, and more.
Is this a case of a well-meaning person doing the wrong thing, or wannacry-like developers playing a long game to keep Marcus Hutchins tied up and out of their way?

I'm inclined to think the latter, though Hanlon's Razor points at the former.
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Thank you so much for the quick feedback!!!
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I believe you and the parent are talking about two different resources. You're referring to to _Teach Yourself Logic in 2017_, but I think the parent is referring to the material from CMU.
What's the point of being "correct" if nobody understands you?
> but the user is getting root

No, he's not.

> My InfoSec group does not grant root privileges to non-root users without a good reason

This doesn't either.

> This is open-source, if an application has a hard-coded path, it can be fixed. If it isn't open-source, I'd assume RH won't sign the packages. Good software remains portable by making these things configurable in a .conf or environment variable (and good upstream dev teams will accept patches to make their software more portable).

> That is surely a problem as you have highlighted and good software shouldn't have hard-coded paths all over the place without reason. So we shouldn't optimize for that case.

I agree, but I guess it's a lot of work and that's why no one has done it yet.
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> Muslim (Mughal) invaders burnt a lot of scriptures.

Actually the particular books I'm referring to were burned by the Portuguese, but lots of invaders destroyed Indian books - Portuguese, British, French, Dutch, and yes, Mughal as well.
I live in Toronto and I've always said if shit hits the fan, my first stop is probably Robarts Library at U of T.

edit: photo -- http://www.blogto.com/upload/2015/04/20150415-Robarts-Side.j...

The place is a massive, brutalist compound. And the knowledge it contains would be invaluable! Especially for people like me with limited biological or medical knowledge. The practical resources they knowledge would open up would make a massive difference.

That said, I'd probably still carry a proverbial stick.

Anyway, top rate insights.
> According to author's webpage[1], he's a "student at the University of Waterloo, class of 2021".

> So probably age 17 or 18. He's not passing himself off as a "professional".

Fair enough, though I am still surprised he hadn't learned that in formal education already. I was taught about event driven programming before I got to university. The schools I went to weren't particularly good either so it's not like I had a "better" education or come from privilege.

Maybe they just don't teach event-driven programming any more? :(
It depends on the class of rapids you navigate through. I have done couple in Himalayas below class 5 and in most of them the guide said the risks are pretty minimal.
I could be wrong about that. I learned this in a microbiology course 10 years ago. So the focus was on the bacteria and the quorum sensing rather than the ecology of the octopus.

Here's the wiki on the octopus species though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euprymna_scolopes
Working in the outer NYC metro area as an embedded C/C++ dev. Pay is significantly lower than web dev work and I'm "overpaid" for my position. Never going to get a raise.
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Coding is a 9-5 job. If you do it independently it's a 24hr. job. Platforms and "standards" constantly changing. That whole space is fragmented and "nitchy" you have to hustle to keep up. Especially if you want to be cutting edge. U can always go work for a large co. but then that's just a 9-5. I guess this applies to a lot of things, but this can slow down your progress. Good luck!
You're not alone, I have overheard many hours of this type of speech and never figured out how to listen to it. I think it is something you have to work up to a bit at a time.
Bezos should have been out too by 2003 then
Depression is threatening to take my future
First, I have to apologize for posting this here. This is the only place I know where I can expect good, honest advice. Considering the tech background, there must be some people out here who have or are struggling with the same thing - and hopefully overcame it.

I'm 18 on a gap year. I'm working a manual labor job that barely gives me hours. When I'm not there, I'm at home sleeping or consuming low effort stimulation like video games. I took the gap year in the first place because I wasn't mentally healthy enough for university, but I'm not feeling any better. Worse, in fact.

I feel stunted in terms of maturity. I haven't been around people since middle school, my high school was online.

The last time I had a group of people in life to hang out with was middle school. Except male "friendships", especially in school, are just an excuse to fuck around and be validated by them. I've never had someone I can confide in. I'm afraid it might be too late to reintegrate myself into society.

To make this ostensibly related to HN, I used to make good progress in programming. I had a CHIP8 interpreter half finished in x86 assembly I was making for fun, but as it always is with me, I lost interest and gave up. There's usually no shame in dropping projects like that, but I do that with everything. Piano, chess, language learning. Last year, I was self-studying to try to get an entry level pentesting job, but school+work+parent's divorce put an end to that.

There was a period of a few months where I was working 14 hours a day with school + work + vocation night school. This is where I think I started developing fatigue problems and lost interest in everything. There's studies that imply that depression that lasted for years can destroy cognitive ability, and I definitely feel slower and "cloudier". I don't know which one is to blame, but I'm afraid I don't have any energy left over to begin and succeed in university.

What the hell do I do?
Right, but there can be many bundles for complex sites like Facebook. They can have a bundle for Messenger.com since it's a SPA, another for the FB home page, others for object pages, search pages, etc. etc....
It's also not the title used by the article page or the url, so it seems like an obvious case for a moderator title change.
Well obviously, but if you don't see the value of the blockchain and the technology behind it then you're on the wrong site my friend.

I'm saying that it's always better to get familiar with new technology at the earliest point possible. To "Completely ignore the world of coins" would be kind of stupid and shortsighted don't you think?
I was thinking what I need for programming and assumed that no hands (or hand) and no vision would be complete deal breaker. But by now I've seen people programming using voice and now this guy without seeing. It's amazing what they can do just by being dedicated enough.
To me, your basic "high level programming" job (which usually includes the JS folks with their modern stacks) typically is all about translating business / application requirements into logic that computers can understand and interfaces that people can use.

Certainly, as a higher level programmer, I do think it is great to know as much lower level concepts as possible (it helps your higher level programming skills). But the truth is, business simply wants to Get Shit Done Fast. And having frameworks or libraries do a lot of the work for you saves a lot of time. Hence the huge amount of usage of "glorified plumbing" in the field.

(I don't think even C++ folks are immune to the "glorified plumbing" effect, eg: they have Boost, Poco, QT, etc.)

As far as I know, the separation between this side of programming and the more mathematical / inner detail "engineering" oriented side has always existed. (When I went to college, the "higher programming" pathway also had business courses, where the "engineering" side concentrated more on algorithms and the like. Now, even the business programmer folks did take one course in C++ back then...)
Well, what counts as big and small in this case? C or Js?
Interesting! I wanted to try this out, but it looks like the download (http://swtch.com/plan9port/plan9port.tgz) is down.
It's interesting you ask. iCal had the option of 2-, 3-, or 4-day view, which I liked a lot. Also, I think iCal did much better job visually distinguishing the current day. But I'm also talking about the task management aspects that had been integrated into iCal. Sure, there's Reminders, but besides being a separate app, it is buggy (crashes a lot) and the ui/ux is nowhere close to what iCal offered.
I bet you didn't use any of VCL, Windows Forms, QML or XAML on your C++ front end.
Because of EU enforced quota. Even if your land is in vineyard apellation place you can't plant any new vineyard. This rule was enforced as we were joining the union, it is basically way to ensure big producing countries with over production have enough of market to sell their product.

Local producers are able to sell all of their wines without much problem and there is demand for more, but there is nothing we can do about it. Prices of vineyard land did grow 400% over last 10 years and there is huge consolidation going on. Not great place to be independent winemaker with expansion plans.
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>I'm upset (really upset this morning) about the tone he/she and others here have toward someone who is exploring new CS idea [...] It just makes me sad to think that "Hacker News" is so down on someone who seems to be the prototypical curious hacker

I totally understand your frustration.

This 17 or 18-year-old[1] didn't meet mmjaa's standards[2] to write about programming and apparently, many HN'ers feel the same way.

Maybe that's how the majority of HN community wants it to be. I honestly don't know.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116484

[2] a common "get off my lawn!" type of sentiment[1]: "To me, the "Full Stack" developer is simply someone who cares about whats happening under the hood. The "millennial developers" simply don't." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990097
The linked article doesn't mention "prosecutors" or "evidence" in any way.
So is this a form of usermode linux? I'm not enough of a linux wizard to understand linux-on-linux, chroot, etc...
It's said that the US military is so good at war because even at times of peace it runs on chaos.
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Just get a copy of something like https://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Family-Health-Book/dp/160...

1400 pages of small print, plenty enough information relative to the time you would have to reference it in an urgent situation.
reminds me of the back-to-the-land movement and the foxfire books. their impetus in the 60s and 70s was a retreat from the complicated, (inter)dependent, technological ecosystem of a modern metropolis; towards a simpler redundancy structured around puritan hard work, self-sufficiency and independence of the farm and barter village. james burke had an excellent tv show in 1978 called "connections" covering science and technology (episode 1 linked). the follow up series in later decades were not as good:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp

it began by unwinding civilisation should a critical failure in a complex system lead to catastrophic and cascading collapse; then later trying to understand the connective steps taken from ancient pre-history to then present day.

most well-educated people lack the physical endurance, manual dexterity, strength and mental fortitude to revert back to pre-20th century agrarian survival. as we belong to a society of atomized individual consumers who receive instant gratification from novelty products which require little skill, patience or forethought to use. we depend mostly on mental faculties and the mechanical advantage of machines, with atrophied social and physical abilities. how many jokes, poems, stories or songs do you know? how many hours can you do hard physical labour for? professional sports and fitness industries artificially fill this void.

nobody can sell the things you actually need. the simplest short-term way to survive a disaster is to introduce yourself to your neighbours. depend on each other and share resources, car pool, grow food, recycle rainwater, repair broken things. you now have a backup network to the unavailable local, state, federal and international resources otherwise marshalled to aid you in time of need.

i will conclude my boring cliched opinions with this: i don't believe a disaster you need to prepare for is coming, nor am i convinced any preparation even on a whole city scale would be sufficient. should transportation and grid networks collapse indefinitely, you will likely die. if you live in a place prone to flooding, own a boat. if you live in a place with bush or forest fires, leave you homes when instructed. if you live along earthquake fault lines, avoid old buildings. if you live in a place with high crime, legally carry a weapon to defend yourself.sense became uncommon in a world without commons. if you care for my advice, i suggest you learn play an instrument and develop your singing voice, as the oldest ongoing human activity you are guaranteed job security even during ragnarok.
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The page is not working in Safari for me. I was struggling for a bit to understand that.
I think of it in programming language terms.

The syntax 'A => B' is just a mechanical rule, which is macro-expanded into:

if A then
B
else
true

where A and B are both bools, and the 'if..else' is an expression, not a statement. It evaluates to B when A is true, otherwise it returns true.
I've heard that skydiving triggers this experience at some point.

The first time it's frightening.

The second to fourth time it gives you an adrenaline rush.

The fifth time suddenly you think "holy shit, what am I doing?"

At least, that's what a friend told me.
I'm wondering if they use screen sharing. It'd be dead simple to share your screen to someone and have them look at it, you don't even need your own monitor.
Hmm; I guess that means a solution would be to personalize HN rankings on the similarity of voters' earlier votes on other articles with your own voting behavior (as a proxy for article preference...) :-)
I wonder if in the future there will be a subscription service which consolidates subscription services and pays our fractions of the subscription fee to each provider a la music streaming.
Wait what?

Uber is losing money and can probably only continue losing this amount of money for a few years, he needs to make sure Uber doesn't go bankrupt in the short term.
Do you have some specific information about this? Every time it comes up, it's always vague "my cousin's wife's sister's uncle" nonsense. It makes me suspicious.
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Self-reliance is a myth made by conservatives to justify cutbacks to the poor. Nobody in history has been entirely "self-reliant". Even the pioneers of the Americas had an entire support network in the east and for those that lived around them.

If they didn't, they died.
Presumably a major barrier to offering this is that it threatens to break up network effects and selectively remove the highest-value consumers from the advertising pool.

It's not just about losing 'reach', if only a few percent of people bought the opt-out that would probably be a minimal issue. It's also about who buys the opt-out; the people who can (and would) afford to do so are presumably wealthier than average and help justify ad sales more generally. I don't know the exact breakdown, but presumably it's a power-law situation. If you're the kind of consumer who could conceivably buy a truck through a Ford ad, how much more are you worth than everyone else? 2x? 10x? 20x?

(Of course, the kind of consumer who deeply dislikes ads is probably less likely to click them regardless of wealth. So maybe charging the ad-block contingent a flat rate would actually work out?)
You absolutely need a solid grounding in multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, probability theory and information theory. It will also be helpful to be well versed in graph theory.

In my opinion one of the best starting points is "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" by David MacKaye. It's a bit long in the tooth now, but it is still one of the most approachable and well written books in the field.

Another old book that stands up very well is "Probability Theory: the Logic of Science" by E. T. Jaynes.

"Elements of Statistical Learning" by Tibshirani is also good.

"Bayesian Data Analysis" by Andrew Gelman is another great read.

"Deep Learning" by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio is useful for getting caught up with recent advances in that field.