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I'm an 11th grader and for Hour of Code we have just recently graduated from block-based programming... to HTML. I personally just either do my computer programming homework or work on a side project, but I don't believe that the Hour of Code is too useful to anyone else.

I feel like someone needs to make some sane Hour of Code activities for high school students and do things like presenting on it at conferences and podcasts. From what I can tell from multiple years of presenting similar things, those are some of the best ways to get an idea to public school technology administration.
Finnish researchers made a self-driving car that successfully drove through snow
Initially I was concerned that someone was copying and reselling the works of others. However once reading I have to side with the developers and/or owners of the property. Those being sued are simply being sued because they have the means to pay.

It simply comes down to one fact. The art was all temporary with artist after artist replacing some of those before them. Their work is not being exploited by others for profit. Hence they are not owed anything, nothing was done under commission and it had been they would have been paid at the time.

this is a money grab with a group attempting to play the victimization card. if those demolishing the buildings had no money there would never have been any issue raised nor if the buildings had been torn down for safety issues.
Nobody seems to get this point in the crypto world right now. Instant transactions ADD RISK.

I suspect evolved cryptocurrencies will support intentional delays. My conpsny is working on something like this for Ethereum.
I couldn't get past the first paragraph in Ted Kaczynski's essay.

He makes a lot of claims, with little to no evidence. You can cherry pick notions of stoicism from it (and incorrectly claim that it can be a universally applied philosophy), but what you've linked is essentially just propaganda.
Removing the "Slack and" from that sentence is a very bleak and dystopian message.
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That's be pretty cool. Or a step further with augmented reality; No need to print anything when you can just instantiate a persistent virtual "printout" and file them in virtual zero-g above your head, or anywhere in your own "slice" of the physical office
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What would be inside the VR headsets if not more screens?
I'm sure we could use a centralised blockchain! it could use a transaction ledger in a Merkle tree, everything made tamper-evident. You could widely distribute copies of the thing, saying what the hash is, so anyone would know this was the good copy.

We need a good name for a software product like that ... something like ... Global ... Information ... Technology. Think that'd work?
It’s hilarious that I’m getting down-voted on Hacker News for this. Does anybody actually disagree with me?
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Yeah, how do you preserve art that's painted on a wall owned by another party? Can the artist force the reconstruction of the wall? If so, that's completely bonkers.

I'm with you... the ephemeral quality of graffiti is a defining attribute. Without that, it's not graffiti any more. Not sure that invalidates the legal argument - it could still be art.

Thinking locally... there's a ton of redevelopment in my area (Reston, VA). If I were a NIMBY, could I doodle on a few walls, throw paper at the courthouse, and bring it all to a stop?
Good luck getting Apple AirPods before the holidays
"Slack and friends" was meant to mean "Slack, Hipchat, Lync, and other similar office instant messaging applications," if you somehow thought I was blaming the recent development of human friendship for our woes.
you do realize that virtual reality headsets have screens
I recommend reading this review before deciding to read the book. https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/book-review-weapons-...
Ruby like syntax huh. Man I wish the Python syntax would catch on more. Most clean and readable code I've ever laid my eyes on. Wish I could use it but it's just too slow for the stuff I do. What would I give for a language at least the speed Java but with a Python like syntax.
In the context of Hacker News, I think podcasts struggle because of opportunity cost. The long form format means that someone has to devote 10's of minutes to consumption before making informed comments. While this is true of video as well, I think video struggles a bit less because of higher information density (including semi-standardization of ratings via Youtube) and the ability to provide readable content in the form of titles upfront for context and slides throughout. Even facial expressions help when there is video of a podcast. Video is easier to skim.

One step further is that mediocre audio makes podcasts painful to consume. Video can get away with mediocre audio and mediocre video at the same time. Probably has something to do with the way brains process the world across two senses versus one sense.

I'm not sure how much of a difference a transcript really makes on HN, except that the transcript of a good podcast has a reasonable chance of standing on its own as an interview...particularly if the transcript is edited into a more cohesive interview. No idea about cheap and free services, other than I don't think transcripts matter much on HN.
Before Slack, the same stuff happened in IM. Slack hasn't added any significant noise in my day-to-day (with the exception of my phone, where I never installed IM clients but have chosen to install Slack).
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What if they make a general effort to keep the value 1:1 with Euro?

For example, instead of mining, what if only Estonia could generate estcoin? What if Estonia only sold them via Euro, and promised to pay Euro on a 1:1 basis to anyone who sold them back to Estonia?
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I'm currently in the process of writing a book covering automated testing within Angular (2/4).

The most practical advice for maintaining motivation is to look at things on a day or a week basis. I've described the process to others as running a mental marathon so I simply can't think about mile 26 right now. I have to think about the next eighth of a mile. Trello has been very helpful with this. I break up my work into small tasks and stack them into a completed list each week. Seeing that stack week after week has been very beneficial for my mindset by giving me the feeling of accomplishment. Without this, progress would be a lot more abstract.

The other motivating factor which I imposed on myself was to quit my full-time job. I saved up all year so I could work on this giving myself as long of a personal runway as possible but there is an end. That motivates me.
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Estonia is awesome.

An extremely poor country outside Tallin (according to a single documentary I've watched), they went tech to try to thrive as a country.

Takes some balls, it's either that or tax heaven (which is something I think _my_ country--Italy--should do), they went the hardcore route.
Somewhat qualified guess (studied agriculture and forestry for 1.5 years):

If the desert expands that will most likely definitely destroy the areas.

And while trees will use a lot of water (somewhat depending on specie I think) they'd hopefully also provide protection against direct sunlight for a more diverse ecosystem to establish.

Compared to the Midwestern way of pumping groundwater only to grow seasonal crops this seems like a good step in a better direction.
Can you quote some of the relevant cases here?
Oh, right, I understood that! I just thought it was more humorous than anything
1000 years from now, do you want our distant descendants to judge our aesthetic merits by the Kardashians?
Hacker News nobility is a dubious title haha.

Btw on post quantum crypto: the problem is that most of it has not yet had enough conventional cryptanalysis. Makes no sense to use an algorithm immune to quantum speedup if it's conventionally vulnerable.
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The mismanagement of Nokia has been a much bigger problem for Finland's economy than the Euro ever was.
+ and strongly typed.
It is possible to do this with cwm (calm window manager) from OpenBSD; there is a linux port.

It's awesome, the first times in a long time that I have the feeling of "job done" when I shut down the computer.

I was previously using a tilling window manager (xmonad), but you can always collect garbage on another workplace.

With cwm, the possibility to really hide a window or to group them is unbelievable.
You are repeatedly quoting the law to avoid discussing whether there are any ethical issues here, but if this were purely a matter of the law, it would be uninteresting.
Algorithms are going to be the new boogeyman.
3 downvotes based on feelings.
Calibre does it.

http://blog.calibre-ebook.com/2011/10/custom-news-fetching.h...
well, also gold is yellow and shiny, not like bitcoin. the author is somewhere in the middle between abstractions and direct analogies. of course "intrinsic value" has no math definition. so one can manipulate words around it and bitcoin and gold etc
Have we totally lost the ability to imagine a workplace without an instant messaging system everyone has to participate in?
We should talk. I was thinking size of node could == some kind of measure of size/risk/significance. There's lots of things one might want to visualise, so some collaborated standard would be good.
I would say fooling your mind is not easy. Definition of mind is "something that seeks" to want a "mind that doesn't seek" is meaningless and absurd. Its like wanting a nose that doesn't breathe.

Sure you can come up with various philosophies like stoicism, Buddhism ect but you are merely trading one loop of seeking for another. Now you are stuck in a 'non-seeking' loop and failure to achieve 'non-seeking'.
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If you're considering Crystal over Ruby, chances are that speed is part of your reasoning.

And if speed is important to you, then you want to use all 4/8/16 cores of your machine, not just one.
If I'd written this one, my marketing friends would ask me "Where is the call to action?"
Nim is the closest language to what you're describing that I've found so far https://nim-lang.org/
I'd think it's a variation of the "life is meaningless and we're all irrelevant specks of dust anyway" line of thinking.
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Functions are objects in Python and JS, btw. And primitives can be treated as objects. They are wrapped by prototypes in JS, and belong to type classes in Python.

Ruby's elegance stems from being able to treat everything as an object sending messages to other objects, like Smalltalk. Some languages promote a certain style of programming. You might as well complain that Haskell is functional, and Lisp is homoiconic.

Howevver, Ruby & Crystal still let you define functions and write statements as if they were procedural.
Depends on how you run the numbers, saving 1,000+$/year on gas adds up. Maintenance costs are tricky as you do need to replace the batteries, but IC cars also have a lot of expensive repairs that are not relevant on electric cars.

It's the used electric car market that's going to be really interesting. A new battery could for example be longer range than the initial battery, and we are looking at sub 100$/kwh batteries very soon.
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Even if the expensive infrastructure was put in place to allow electric car batteries to be used as a peak load reservoir, utilities would still need to maintain traditional on demand resources, such as natural gas fired power plants. Using a large number of cars is not dependable, utilities need on demand dependability.
What happens if during peak consumption in the evening winter months more people stay out late (such as on New Years Eve) and most people park in places where there's no way to plug in?
This would only add to overall infrastructure costs, adding a huge bidirectional grid in addition to traditional power sources that must be maintained year round for on demand use.
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Indeed. But careful there, if there is anything that's slowing down your system it can slow down the sampling tics as well and hide performance degradations. Its a good idea to record what's the time interval between tics. If tics are too frequent, this can again get you into trouble as this time interval computation can become relatively expensive.
I wish every entitled brat that is born with a free ticket to Harvard and a potential career in congress would have to live this life first..
It's more a comment on the switch statement style approach to personal interaction :p
Read that study carefully. It may not say what you think it says. The rate for whites is higher but only when counting from a stop already being initiated. Stops are initiated on minorities at tremendously higher rates. Comparing the two outcomes is really tricky.
That seems like a pretty good reason already.
A lot of sites are transpired these days, so you have the 'source' but it's generated code
Now imagine doing this for years: every morning you walk into a windowless, empty room. Put VR on, work our 9-5. Get VR off, back in the windowless, empty room.

It would completely destroy me within days.
Yeah, come on guys, this is obviously a renaissance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
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Here come the "Tesla-killers" (that never were).
I've found workflows with my reMarkable tablet that allow me to spend less time in front of a screen. I find getting away from my workstation to go think is immensely valuable. With my org-based publishing system I can put code, diagrams, and documents that render to PDF and sync to the device which allows me to "go offline" for a bit and edit, reflect, and remix those thoughts.

It's not quite as extreme as Screenless but I'm totally down with the message.

I'd like for my reMarkable to eventually be more capable of uploading my gestures to my server where I'm running recognition software that can talk to my compilers, theorem provers, etc and send me back more information.

I'd like to work in a space where the devices and artifacts surrounding me are more intuitive and conducive to the way I think rather than blending myself in with the way someone else designed the experience of thinking for me.
Have a look at https://yotoplay.com , it sounds similar.
Why can't this just be solved with solar panels and batteries?
Is anyone seriously tracking where these "stolen" coins from these past several hacks are going?

This is like saying that open source software is more secure than closed source software because the code is public and auditable.

Sure it is auditable, but nobody is doing it. And then shellshock happens.
1. Encrypt you users private keys client side with a password only they know. Now I just hold encrypted keys my side.

80% of users will choose password as password. The other 80% will forget their password by next week.

It doesn't work from a user experience or security perspective. It might be worse than giving the key.
My experience has been different. Things like slack have actually increased my ability to focus and get things done. My SLA for responding to slack is 2 hours, I can't focus on any one task for longer than that. Every two hours of so I check messages and respond then. It's great, it's far more relevant and filtered than email is and it isn't people showing up at my desk every 5 minutes.
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Helm is a lot simpler than it looks, and it’s awesome.

I also had this exact perspective, not wanting to introduce more complexity and therefore held off on Helm for a long time. But then I got comfortable enough with Kubertnes and also my project got complex enough that I needed templating and then Helm was great to pick up.

I just use one chart that I wrote for my application and I don’t mess around with repositories. I render the chart locally with helm template[0] to build my containers on Google Cloud container builder[1]. Then I deploy with helm upgrade. It’s a great flow!

[0]https://github.com/technosophos/helm-template

[1]https://github.com/dminkovsky/kube-cloud-build
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I would like to see it compared to a more boring model. For instance, if you use plain words as features and something like logistic regression it will very quickly get the point that something that has the word "Nikon" and "Camera" and "Coolpix" in the title is a cemra (or a camera accessory.)
How do street mounted charging ports cope with rain, snow and dirt? Is there a risk of electrocution?
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I think individualistic cultures like the West can only work by teaching their members many subconscious habits for pushing away other people. That's great because it enables individual creativity (not to mention freedom from some ugly hierarchies we'd rather forget about), but the flip side is that people feel more distant from each other.

Thankfully, solving this problem doesn't require changing all of society. You can solve it for yourself: take a few years to notice and unlearn your habits for pushing away other people. I'm confident that you have many such habits right now, from the way you stare at your phone in public, to your posture and facial expressions every minute of the day.

To give you a picture of the end result, imagine a stereotypical immigrant from a more collectivist culture. Their reputation for openness isn't undeserved.
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What's wrong with cheap handheld barcode scanners, like this for $17:

https://www.amazon.com/Barcode-Scanner-Symcode-Handheld-Read...

It just acts as a USB keyboard (no drivers needed), so you could easily hook it up to a Rasperry Pi to do what you want.
Yes, in the same way that we have lost the ability to imagine a workplace without email or phones. Once you give people an efficient means of communication, it doesn't really go away. Skype for Business and its predecessors have been around for 10 years. I know Yahoo used IM internally for much longer than that and I'm sure many other companies did as well.

I actually don't think that IM is a net positive for me. The channel support in Slack/Teams/Stride is.
We used to have that in Sweden as well, but it seems like it was discontinued a few years ago.
I think you are right. Just the other day there was a posting in our anonymous university group chat and someone complained how she thinks she is unable to start and finish masters degree and its thesis work. The first suggestion which adviced taking time off to re-evaluate her choices of continuing with graduate studies were downvoted. Instead, replies supporting going through the masters with various lifehacks, even though the OP clearly states she doesn't want to do it, were upvoted.

I understand its natural for students to pep talk their peers to study more, but I don't understand why controversial suggestions are being dismissed. I almost feel like these calls for help are just seeking validation to continue hoop jumping instead of actually finding alternative ways to fix the root cause. It makes me sad to think that my peers don't think they are ready for working life until they graduate, whilst I would, as an employer, much rather hire someone capable of self-inspection and listening of people with differentiating viewpoints.
> If you read my comment,

That was not necessary.
A 4 door Solar car can do a 3,000++ mile range. But, surprisingly people care about other things.

https://solarteameindhoven.nl/stella-vie/
Expectations and also demands; as the precariat grows, and the unnecessariat under it, there's steadily more risk to striking out on one's own.

Certainly a six-figure salary is not necessary for happiness, but if you find yourself working long hours to make rent in some midwestern town it's going to cut into your opportunities for self-discovery and joy. And if you got wise a bit too late, after picking up federal student loans, you might well find that your dream career is genuinely off the table. (Found your true calling as a firefighter? Better keep up on those loans or you'll lose your license.)

It seems like we've created a system where the straight-and-narrow is increasingly narrow, and the cliffs around it are increasingly high. It's still worth finding one's own path, but in both social and purely-practical terms it's gotten steadily harder.
Have you tried an Amazon Echo or similar microphone?
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It's the most common form of scam. The owner of the exchange leaves with the money.

That's why exchanges are regulated. Step one of the regulation is getting the identity of all the owners. Step two is having servers and backups on regulated soils so you can seize everything at any time and reconstruct the ledgers.
This looks like a carbon copy of the 2015 derailment in Philadelphia. I'm not sure if Amtrak is competent to operate a high-speed rail service safely anywhere in the USA.
Would you say this is a more low entry barrier meetup.com? I think its hard for women to join these kinds of things due to high prevalence of "creepers". Once its mostly men, the platform is dead.
The UK has a population 8 times larger than Switzerland. When I said small I meant < 10 million people.
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That seems like it'd be enough money to be worth going to court.
From my view I have 2 nuclear power plants, a couple of natural gas/oil generators, a bunch of small solar plants, and a single coal fired plant in the state for our grid. No one from this part of the state is getting their power from coal in any appreciable quantity. So no, coal cars is not an apt name since not everyone is getting power from coal.
An electric car is at least a $20k investment. If you're buying a $20k car $2k of electrical upgrades are certainly a factor in the purchasing decision, but you can at least afford to upgrade your house and work parking. And realistically the cost is likely to be lower than that, and even not it pays off in lowered fuel costs.
> You are repeatedly quoting the law to avoid discussing whether there are any ethical issues here

That's a pretty great distance to move the goalposts. The original comment questions legal matters (whether the owner acted in bad faith, whether the law was broken, and which side the judge [should] decide to be correct). Hence why we're discussing the legal standards.

If you want to discuss ethical issues, I'd suggest a new comment thread, because that hasn't come up at all in this one.
Yes, I agree with you on all of this.

The user experience of using the app, and of discovering the app (i.e. its web presence), needs to be friendly and relevant to the user.

I don't think we want to imitate Facebook too directly, because we don't want it to be Facebook, but it needs to make sense as you use it :)

(By the way, I'm a mere end-user here, and this is just my opinion!)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature
What git gui? Git kraken?
Card terminals only have numbers. Not planning to ship them with a full keyboard. That's a good reason to only take numbers.
Interesting, thanks for correcting my impressions.