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> Don't take classes. I took a Spanish class once...

I STRONGLY categorically disagree with your "don't take classes" statement.

I would rephrase your statement "don't take shit classes".

Don't waste your time on "My name is Bob" classes looking at cartoons in textbooks.

But good classes. With proper structured tuition. Given by a true native teacher. Not an opportunity to be sniffed at.

Why do I say this ? Because I've done it. It was bloody hard work at the time and I hated every minute of it. But the outcome in terms of my fluency, including finer details like pronunciation etc without needing to think about it ? Unmatched. As far as I'm concerned there's no substitute for supervised learning.

If you want to learn a language properly, you need someone not afraid to tell you you're wrong (rather than just being nice and saying "that's good" all the time, or turning a blind eye to your abysmal pronunciation). You also need someone to push you and challenge you, especially with technical aspects which again is not something you'll find with friends.
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Little is known about “Unix” but it is believed he or she was a charismatic spiritual leader who brought hope, healing, and comfort to countless humans on Earth and inspired numerous disciples including “BSD”, “Linux”, and “System V”.
The problem is if it's some obscure topic with a specific shelf, you can get some pretty bad books, as it seems to pull them based on other people's tags of books. Or, I can be reading academic works on Buddhism and then get recommended Alan Watts, who wasn't an academic and wasn't a Buddhist, but others tagged as 'Buddhism'. So there are still plenty of issues with it.
If the supercap has such great properties, why not focus on commercialization and owning the energy storage market now? Making it fully green could be the next step. I have trouble believing that if they indeed had a revolution like they purport on their hands their next thought would be how to keep working on it without leaving the lab and not how to prove it in the real world.
Consider that there is currently a huge bifurcation in which newspapers of record run by journalism professionals are to be trusted. Or even just outright distrust of journalism period, in some circles. Or distrust of university professors and other "elites."

It seems pretty likely that it's possible cultivate the same distrust of technical professionals. In fact, considering how little true technical expertise has gone into the voting systems that exist, it's probably inevitable and possibly in some cases accurate.

If you need an technical expert to verify your voting system or even your vote count, that itself is a vulnerability in what voting systems are for. This is not a coding problem.
Honestly I look forward to that. It's a big improvement over using fossil fuels for energy — combine it with landfilling, and you're just re-burying oil after some transportation and manufacturing. And it gives a softer landing to the petroleum industry.

Over time we can replace petro-plastics with more sustainable materials. Bioplastics? Incineration-recycling, where you capture the CO2 and turn it back into plastic feedstock?

Edit: Also I think composting cardboard and paper would be great.
Yep. I bought a used copy of Yakuza 0 online once and foolishly included the name of the game in the notes of the transaction. PayPal blocked the transfer of funds for over a week.
Things are not that simple. Many times I have encountered that people do not know that they know something, lack of confidence can undermine their abilities. By default they will say their perceived version of "truth" that they "do not know it" while in fact they do. In eyes of their boss lack of confidence can be perceived as reason for demotion or endless cycle of easy tasks that do not lead person to improve their skills and learn by doing. Fear of judgment can be parasailing.

Also, sometimes pressure forces person to learn something in a very short period. So, if you "fake it", but also put significant effort to quickly learn what is needed to succeed then it is not lie but a 'future promise' it would be lie only if you don't succeed.
Because that's not how Unix time is defined. The leap second hack is hardcoded into it:

Unix time is [...] the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, minus leap seconds.

- Wikipedia

If you are on Mars you'll have to update your computer time every ~6 months when Earth release a new table of leap seconds caused by e.g. earthquakes.
I believe that withoutboats has deprecated that, and now recommends anyhow (for applications) or thiserror (for libraries).

I’ve tried them, and they really do take most of the toil out of defining errors.
Doesn't change the point. All of the fork's 55 PRs except 2
and most of the issues were made by the forker himself as well.

It's not like the forker inherited all the open issues/PRs, they just dropped them all.

Getting popular and having the masses leave a bunch of issues/PRs is hard. Reviewing code is hard and takes more expertise than writing it. A lot harder than reviewing your own PRs on a motivated (for now) fork.
Flash, J2ME
Is this a realistic threat? Mail-in and absentee ballots could also have theoretical coercion issues but in reality many states exclusively use mail-in voting without issue.
There are two factors at play here I think. The first is that Github has become quite popular. The second is that Github has worked a lot on usability - it's now very easy for users who are not very technical to create an account and report issues.

At times I imagine there could be some kind of "I know how to report bugs"-certification that people could somehow earn. Projects could then use this as a barrier to prevent getting too many useless issue reports.

The problem really goes both ways - as a software dev I'm disincentivized to report detailed bugs to projects, because there's a high risk it will get drowned out in the noise.

Some projects have quite specific templates for reporting issues. This helps a bit, but you still need someone to go in and remove issues that don't match the template, and few people want to volunteer for that work.
> How do people using Go and other languages that don't have exceptions solve this reduced readability problem?

Having a single clear return path with, e.g., monadic returns and pattern matching is more readable than exceptions (particularly, the signatures are more readable than with checked exceptions effectively splitting the type system into two separate components with distinct syntaxes).

OTOH Go (which has a very close equivalent of exceptions but idiomatically prefers using it's annoying multivalue return pattern in most public APIs) is pretty much the worst of all worlds.
And the vast majority of the stuff does not leak out.

You're making an Argument from Homeopathy here.
Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24249220
I think it’s best to stay language agnostic especially in 2020. I try to think data-in data-out and use the best tools available for clean execution.
HN's policies and norms around paywalled articles are well-established and oft-discussed.

Here are two recents comments by moderator dang explaining his position:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255444

Workaround links for major news publications can usually be generated on https://archive.md. In this case:

https://archive.md/YGrVx
Go cares very much about readability. It’s a very subjective topic...because someone doesn’t agree with your opinions on a subjective issue doesn’t mean they don’t care.
- the most important things are my mental and physical health. Invest in those for the highest ROI.

- people in positions of direct power (managers) aren’t any smarter or wiser than ICs. It’s actually surprisingly easy to be extremely incompetent and generally demonstrate no ownership of any problem. You can fly under the radar as long as others are hell bent on success and unknowingly carrying your weight (I was caught on the other end of this).

- do your best work, but at some point you have to let balls drop. Others have to fail sometimes to learn or for accountability to actually come into the picture.

- speak up louder and often when you’re unsure of something or when things don’t pass the sniff test. Don’t be afraid that someone will think your incompetent because you asked for help on ambiguous problems. You’ll realize that the people who you thought would judge you actually don’t know either, and in any case it was wrong to presume their response in the first place.

- you don’t have to be involved in every problem your team owns or is asked to own. At some point, you literally cannot scale to knowing every detail. Delegate things out the best you can, but solutions should always be documented so we can verify what’s going on and is it the right thing to do.

- don’t compromise on things you own. If someone’s lack of ownership is causing a fire, don’t risk the things you are directly responsible for to put out that fire.
See my response above!
Yeah. The world is so chaotic
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That would imply we ever had one in the Netherlands to begin with
Pretty refreshing to read.
I can't imagine being 40 lbs overweight and would sacrifice 90% of my wealth to be my normal self if it ever happened... hopefully his destiny led him to a better place.
Yeah Amazon was arguably the first real cloud style platform that worked within the IC (even with it being a private cloud in a private datacenter).

Amazon is in no way an underdog in any way shape or form within the IC. It's simply bringing on people as any contractor does.
It’s funny to see.

“Snowden showed how corrupt the gov’t is and how our privacy is at risk!”

“We should have the gov’t regulate communication on the big social networks!”
https://archive.md/YGrVx
It's reasonable to ask about the exact meaning of the word concerned given the situation.

Also all the things mentioned are pretty standard these days.
People assume interviews are to prove technical competence. Answering with “Google it” is more of a test of someone’s humour. While in practice it might be true that you’d Google it, most people have been conditioned by the education system to answer with something more substantive and demonstrative of their technical thinking ability.
With Earth's day length becoming irrelevant, the 24 hour clock becomes irrelevant too, and the length of the sleep cycle may shift.

We could eventually arrive at stardates with one starday being 100000 seconds. Of course, that would be just as arbitrary as simply keeping the 24 hours of 60 minutes each.
I agree this is likely. In the ants example, I would expect a certain amount of pheromone to be the trigger, not an actual number of ants. And this could be demonstrated by introducing pheromone without additional ants (a trivial example) or observing differences dependent on, for example, weather conditions impacting pheromone detectability and therefore colony behavior, while obviously not impacting the number of ants.
I live near a university, so I would have to say no. Scooters tend to be ridden full throttle, limited only by the governor (which is often defeated) and the weight of the rider.

If anything, the enclosed body might make it more boring, and thus more likely to be driven slowly.
here's to hoping Gab hires the retires patriot Admiral Mike Rogers to its board of directors to help protect the Qanon ecosystem as Gab expands into competing against Youtube and Facebook. ;)
And that goes back to Macintosh 128K.

Obviously, Apple stole mice and bitmapped graphics and GUIs from Xerox Parc. But a huge part of their pitch for MacOS in the early days was integration between apps on the platform.

Consistency of UX meant that there was lower friction for adopting new apps. Integration between apps such as being able to copy and paste text between apps from different vendors was a revelation by the consumer microcomputer standards of the day.
Ravi catches my interest, then frustrates me. The Lua 5.4* compatibility statement. “Well we’re 5.3, we forked 5.3 I don’t agree with a minor 5.4 detail so we’re stuck on 5.3” It’s similar to LuaJIT stuck on 5.1.

I don’t think it does the Lua world any favors to be stuck on so many versions. It causes extra work for library developers, makes for poor code samples, and confusion for new adopters. It’s not like Lua is moving quickly with versions either. Every ~5 years for a minor version?

*) yes I know 5.4 is brand new.
Forests in France are on the rebound because colonial powers outsourced their rapacious practices to the colonies. As old colonial powers loosened their grip on the colonies, the influence of globalized corporations remained to leverage and exacerbate local corruption and the vast imbalance of wealth and power.
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Yea, but if we're going to use a "number of seconds since ..." Type system like Unix time, SOMEONE has to be the origin point, so I don't think this is a knock against Unix time.
There is precious little "working" with PayPal. We had an unauthorized transfer of $1000 out of our bank account by PayPal, and they have a completely useless circular IVR, their chat bot is nigh non-functional, and their support documentation is woefully out of date. We ended up detecting the odd activity early enough to redirect the funds before someone (who added an unknown number to the account) did anything with it, but we started a dispute and chargeback just-in-case. Further business being cut off be damned.

I've worked in fintech/self-banking institutions. PayPal is a mockery of the entire industry. The example of the literal worst implementation anyone can think of and which leaves everyone scratching their head at how they manage to get away with running as fast and loose as they do.
The unfortunate reality is that you're worth the same as what the next qualified person is willing to accept.

Compensation is determined by the local cost of labor: if a competing candidate is living in North Dakota and willing to accept 30% less, then that's what they'll pay.
>Maybe because they earnt their position through merit?

They earned the position of representing a wildly exaggerated view of how tech companies influence their users?

Give me a break, this show was just dumb. It added no value to the conversation around tech companies.
The term is pejorative in the world of venture capital and means little outside of it. It's pejorative because in the world of VC investing, a lifestyle business is not win-win. The founders get something good and the VC's get "nothing:" unsustainable returns and no recycling of founders into a new business. At it's core, the VC model of investment tries to align investor and founder interests by using equity value growth as the vehicle for returns.

The downside of lifestyle businesses is that investments are made on the basis of cashflows. And these are inherently adversarial. Returns for the investors come at the expense of founders and vice versa. This means there is always the potential to struggle for control. Investors in lifestyle businesses are not inclined to write off an investment. They are likely to seek control when payment isn't made.

Investments in lifestyle businesses follow ordinary investment logic. The advantage of VC is that it does not. None of which is to say that one is better than the other as a matter of general principle. Only to observe that ordinary investment strategies tend to be adversarial at their core.
Do you have an example of a presidential election that was redone?

In 2000 Bush vs Gore, the Supreme Court canceled the recount. That’s the closest I’ve seen to the courts stepping in to fix a mess.
As a former italian 14-years-old, I can say that I did not perceive any inherent sense of danger driving a moped. If anything, I would say that a minicar would have prevented me from constantly zig-zaging between cars in the city traffic.

OTOH, a couple of moped accidents have quickly taught me to pay a lot of attention to other vehicles and to somehow anticipate their behavior. It's a risky but effective school.

As a parent of a current 14yo, I notice that her and her friends show almost no interest in mopeds or any form of autonomous transportation, while for us it was a must have - either you parents gave you one, or you kept relentlessly for fighting for it. I don't know what to make of it.
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All store goods using plastic in packaging should be heavily taxed.
Ordering a new election from scratch and obtaining an air of legitimacy requires either that the rules for that were written ahead of time, or that the winner of the disputed election ask for the new election.

In the US, I haven't seen any indication we have rules for a new election. We certainly don't have such rules for the president, except that the electors can be selected by state legislators and if the electors don't provide a result, US legislators can select the president.
Has the term been used to describe some other behavior since I learned about it in 5th grade History class? I’d love to learn what else it’s used for, if so
Fonts and styling: bold, italic, thin, underlines with styles, outlines, borders. A lot can be achieved with monochromatic medium.
I thought the hidden variables interpretation had been abandoned for awhile now? “Don’t tell God what to do with his dice”.
> But if we could vote on individual laws and policies instead of people there would not be such difference, and people would be able to use their vote rationally. And if they make mistakes they will not be stuck with the mistake for four years.

That's how you get Brexit.
This really can't be understated. The difference between your how your brain works when you're under the clock and know you're being observed vs. the "natural" flow of a calm working environment is tremendous. Anyone of us who's conducting the interview must do some kind of double-checking of obvious mistakes to fairly account for the limitations of the process.
There is zero chance that future cell phones will be easier to repair.
If every product was offered both ways, sure.

Going significantly out of your way to get differently-packaged product could easily cost more than recycling it.

And if it's exceptionally difficult to recycle a certain kind of plastic into new plastic, then turn it into completely inert ash. Either way it's all hydrocarbons and you can convert any of those into a non-problem form.
Probably safer for the 14 year old but not for the pedestrians
According to Wikipedia, the lightest Punto of any generation was 830 kg.
I remember staying up late (UK) at the Billenium (2:46 AM Sunday Sep 9th 2001), thinking that was bound to be the most newsworthy event of the week, watching the seconds tick past on a "while(sleep 1); do date" loop, with slashdot in one window, IRC in another, all running on an enlightenment window manager.

500M seconds later I was in Washington DC in a hotel, watching it tick up on an rxvt on my laptop, with HN in a window.

Who knows where I'll be in 2033, hopefully not in Europe as I'll be too old for night shifts, but wherever I am, I suspect it will have a bash prompt.
The result of this thinking was a tremendous breakthrough for GM. They captured the mindshare of hot rodders and their V8 became a de facto standard. It is commonplace to find these engines retrofitted into non-GM vehicles due to low cost and availability.
i highly recommend Yandex browser. it is a Chrome fork, but it appear to be heavily modified with extra security features added. Such as DNSSEC pointing to Yandex's own DNS servers. I presume everything that phones home to Google has been ripped out of Yandex browser, much like Ungoogled Chromium. I like Yandex browser mainly because it puts the URL bar at the bottom. Google removed that feature years ago. Yandex browser also integrates with all of Yandex's services, like Mail and Disk.

and yes, Yandex has an API for everything. You don't need language bindings as long as your language speaks HTTPS.
> For today, the highest budget[1] celebration I've run across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrH8xyJG4rc

What are they singing about? (EDIT: I mean what exactly. The title "I'm a hacker" and the dancers don't leave that much room for imagination.)
Note that that's actually a trombone and not a trumpet, contrary to what the video title says.
I would suspect the person that was wanting to sit in the same row was lonely or scared and wanted company.
The early US election history is littered with stories of coercion. It’s a very real threat.
Threader is pretty interesting. It not only makes it generally easier to read (save from any mistakes in the scraping or formatting) but also allows for reading a twitter thread without the distraction of twitter itself, designed to pull you into their ecosystem after you've finished the thread.
Yes if course. Developers need to treat all commercial platforms with cynicism and realize that they re honeytraps. You are always allowed to eat at first but then you gotta run out asap
This seems kinda cheap...
Think about it, more hassle at home, Never being able to switch work off, so they get more work, for less.. Ah capitalism. Do we think that when people can go back to their office that the salary will jump up? LOL..
"Fix" is both shorter than "make", and correct.

Literality has nothing to do with it. Obviously they meant "fix". It would have been equally easy to say "fix".

Mistaking a riff on nucleosynthesis for not understanding that they were just being sloppy means some other thing.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5m51GK6O2I
Dutch as well, unsurprisingly. It incorporates beer into the concept.
it's role here is the same as relating the beginning of the universe.

from an experimental standpoint it is completely possible that the universe started a few minutes ago or that the laws of physics changed in completely random ways, but we still want to study how the universe could have started given our current understanding of it.

there is no reason why the big bang is a truer hypothesis than intelligent design/creationism for the beginning of the universe, but one of them can help us improve our understanding of our current universe the other does not.

the situation is the same for the creation/evolution of life: assuming darwinism helps developing new drugs and intelligent design does not.

personally I take it as: if an intelligent entity created of guided the universe it also carefully added the traces of an undesigned origin for us to study.
If I had known how Gates would spend his fortune, I wouldn't have spent all those years griping about Micro$haft.
I remember seeing this and being extremely impressed by his candor, his forethought and his graceful humor. These tidbits especially stood out:

- As CEO, I am accountable.

- I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey.

- This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness – don't waste the opportunity!
That’s not the only change required, it’s the only case where the alternative has a lifestyle impact. Feel free to find something else that directly requires the burning of fossil fuels without any equivalent option.

I can’t defend an argument that doesn’t exist. Trying to name every single things people do and say no that doesn’t need fossil fuels either is ridiculous. But hey you could visit the moon without them that should reasonably suggest alternatives for all forms of transportation. Energy generation and manufacturing has alternatives, what more do you want?
To be honest, I'm not so sure where most of Europe falls on the "viability of public transport" spectrum. But that dial a ride service sounds like a nice alternative for otherwise too rural regions.
Or lets say we colonize a planet with a significant time dilation (ie near a supermassive blackhole), how do you deal with this? Who has the canonical time?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (BBC, 1988)