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Thanks for taking the time to share this story.

I'm not deaf, but I can very much relate to some of what you've said. Especially the loneliness part.

I'm an English speaker who's spent the last year in France. I'm currently working in a French company, and the spoken language is still VERY difficult to follow (ie - when they use slang, jokes, etc). For six months, I've been feeling like I'm in the shadows quietly sitting with my colleagues at lunch and hearing them laugh at jokes while I'm still trying to figure out what they were talking about with a lag of 10 seconds. It's frustrating, crushing, and you want to just go and hide somewhere.

Yes I can ask them to repeat things, yes I can ask them to explain the jokes, but it just makes me feel like dead-weight that needs to be dragged along. It's frustrating beyond anything.

The advantage on my part is that I can get (and have gotten) used to the language to the point that I now follow things quite well. And with time it can only improve. I'm not sure how this will pan out for you, but I wish you all the best. The fact that you're putting in the effort is in itself an awesome thing.
Sounds like a corrupt profile. If you’re interested in trying to fix it then you could delete your profile and start again (or if you’re running a beta or newer Firefox go to about:support and click on ‘Reset Firefox’).
I wish developers would stop copying SQL. It's like making fancy new languages, and then adding libraries that help you emulate COBOL. SQL is not the first, the last, or the best query language ever created, it's just the best marketed. It's not even properly relational, it's based on a series of shell scripts on multics for crying out loud!
When I travelled to Sevilla, I heard the rumour that he had actually an affair with a woman from Spanish royal family whose husband went to war. When his husband discover the affair. He funded Columbus to fulfil his dream to discover a new world. He actually wanted him to go away and die.well its just talk of the street.
But this aforementioned news could be true as there are significant numbers of jewish population in USA more than any other countries in the world.
Thanks a lot, because this is infinitely more useful than a snarky, ha-ha quotes repeating age-old, Low-Effort jokes. I'll read up on what you referred to.
A friend of mine used to work as a lawyer, and many of them used to get involved in mock trials, where they could test themselves on a complicated case and see how the other half does things.

Although this isn't much different and an argument against this post I do agree with Ryan Carson in that a lot of developers are judged on things they do outside of work, as if not going to hackathons or working on open-source projects makes you a worse coder than someone who does.

I work on my own projects from time to time, but I know many developers who treat it as a 9-6 job and a good number of them are far better than me. Carson is right in that there are a LOT of opportunists out there who are more than happy to take advantage of developers. I know people in my own area that use hackathons as a way to promote their own company, and while they're not "selling" this code they're definitely using it as a way to promote their business.

Should developers care? Probably not, but given the attitude towards developers in general more of them would do good to be more cynical.
> Does Ruby have a cool interpreter? Perl? R?

For Perl I use Devel::REPL (https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::REPL) but there are several others on CPAN (for eg: https://metacpan.org/module/Zoidberg) with varying levels of coolness.
Seeing as how there aren't terms of service maybe YOUR flawed. It's a web app that never guaranteed your privacy.
Whenever I see "new rich HTML editor", I notice that there is no table editing. What's the point of editor that is missing the most needed function? You could argue that it is not needed, however lack of this function leads to cases of copy-paste from word/excel with bad markup.
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Chess in person with other people is quite different from chess online with random internet people. A chess tournament is usually more than just sitting down and playing your games--it is typical a social event.

You don't say if your kid was just playing in school tournaments, or if he was playing in tournaments open to all players. If the later, chess tournaments (and local chess clubs) are one of the few places kids can interact with adults and be treated as equals.

It's really a lot like sports. If your kid takes an interest in, say, basketball, will you stop him from getting on the school team because he has very little chance of becoming an NBA player?
Wouldn't it be more desirable to have these WYSIWYG editors serialize to a non-HTML markup (like textile or markdown) to reduce the hassle of user-input sanitization on the back-end? (e.g. stripping script and iframe tags). What's best-practice these days for storing and displaying rich-edit user input?
Brutally honest which is refreshing, it sometimes feels like a lot of the time start ups gloss over the obvious truth that it's just not working, yet.

They seem like smart guys, there's a real problem there and probably as importantly there's a market. Last holiday I had (and it was my first as well) took me about 3 weeks to fully book as getting the right options, timing etc was so non-obvious through some of the incumbents.

Looking forward to Part 3, I'm interested to see where the story goes.
What's the point of the green button (overwriting data with random garbage), if you can have an encrypted drive, which means you have random garbage on it all the time, lest you have the key. Well, maybe that's how it works (erasing the encryption key), though in this case there is no point of doing it remotely.

In this case the red button is not that important either. The only thing they could be used is when you are tortured to give away the decryption key (or passphrase) for the drive. By pressing the red button, you could convince the bad guys, that they won't be able to read the data anyway. The green button would not save your arse, since they may just think that you gave them the wrong key.
This whole discussion, excluding a few posts, is a display of how HN is such a shitty place right now.
Scene groups provide nfo files with their releases. Those nfo files could contain a cryptographic signature proving the authenticity of the rip.

Essentially, the way it works is that for a given group there are two keys: A private key `P` (that only the group has), and a public key `Q` (that everyone has). For a file `F` the "signature" is the output of some function `sign(P, Q, F)`. The function `sign` is specially chosen so that the output can be validated without access to `P`, but cannot be efficiently forged without it.

As other posters have pointed out, this means that if `P` is kept secret then all signed releases can be authoritatively linked to the people who provided them. Finding `P` on someone's thumb drive is a smoking gun. To be honest, I don't think this would be a big worry, but I'm not in the scene and I don't know how the people in it think.
Thanks for the additional clarity.
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The intent is to enable users to "opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms". So you can have an analytics package on your site and do everything you mention, but you cannot offload your statistics gathering to yoursitename.statistics.net, which can track the user across websites, because the users are visiting your site, not statistics.net.

A hypothetical and largely incorrect real-life analogy: you can use cameras to recognize regular clients and keep statistics on them, but you cannot send the camera images to another company to have them processed, because your clients are visiting your store, and not that other company. (This analogy is largely incorrect because camera images are more privacy-sensitive than cookies, and different legal and moral issues are involved, but there's still a similarity.)
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Google and Motorola sell in the EU, China etc. - that's why they have to comply with their laws. Just like foreign companies selling in the US ;)
Sorry I understand the point you're trying to make with your analogy, but I think it greatly understates the fact that deaf people have to deal with this in EVERY aspect of their lives, and not just work. No disrespect, just wanted to point that out.
At first you had to pay for it, then it was annoying adware. Sure, it was a snappy browser and I even used it for a while, mouse gestures etc. But there were always good enough free browsers available.

When they removed the ads in 2005 it was far too late, Firefox had changed the game.
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Nicely related is the video New features of Perl 5.16 from the recent Perl Mova / YAPC::Russia conference...

* video of Pavel Vlasov talk - http://vimeo.com/42408505

* slides from talk - http://www.slideshare.net/fxzuz/perl-516-new-features

* conference link - http://perlmova.org/yr2012/
> The average reading level of deaf 17- and 18-year-olds is at the fourth grade level.

Why??? I would have expected exactly the opposite. Words can open entire worlds. And today as never before a deaf person can communicate with people. The internet is text based as never before in human history.

It can't be because written speech is based on oral. It's certainly possible to learn to read phonetically, but you don't have to. That's what sight words are. I read everything entirely by sight and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

So why?

I would expect someone deaf to read at a blistering pace, and to type equally fast. To the point that they could communicate entirely by typing at almost the same speed as speech.

What assumption am I making that is incorrect, since apparently that's not what actually happens.
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I like it a lot. It's fast, not bloated, and has a decent feature set. I could see myself implementing this.
Yes, it lets you more easily re-enable things on a case-by-case basis. Like NoScript, but focused on privacy.
Meanwhile, I saw a TV commercial for IE today. Amazing how things have changed from the days of 90+% market share dominance by IE.
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I'm commenting as a high school senior who has a few start up plans and is still going to college this fall.

First off, I take fault with the entire "college is overpriced" deal - that's only without financial aid. Harvard costs 60k sticker, but costs around 20k or so after financial aid (with 2/3 of people receiving aid). If you make 150k a year, you'll pay 10% of your income on tuition, it's not a massive 60k expense for most people.

But secondly, life's always about thinking, and it's always going to be about thinking. For purposes of developing education, nothing develops thinking like college, literally. We have no other social institution that fosters the same long-term interaction, learning, and application as college. But even more importantly, college is crucial for general life development, for learning about the world, meeting girls/guys, and all of the misadventures that we tend to take lessons from.

I have over 2000 hours of research in an emerging field, and I'm interested in starting a company on it, but it's not worth skipping college over. It may be worth taking a gap year (which seems more in line with the original Thiel philosophy) but I'm sure I'll have time to fit in a budding startup after classes. If the startup looks promising, and becomes less risky, then sure, it's worth taking a break from college. But until that point, college is a great investment; if you're going to invest in anything, why not invest in yourself?

But with all that being said.. the Thiel application has a few major similarities to the college app process. Thiel recipients probably did well in school, maybe in math/science competitions, have good ideas and are communicative. These skills probably got them into top schools (Ivy/MIT/Stanford). But because the Thiel program is a selection process in itself, it still provides some guidance and is at least better than an unstructured 4 years of skipping college.

Oh and one more thought: people will always care about credentials, which prove that you can do what you say you do. Starting a company, participating in Thiel, or going to a top school all count as credentials - but dropping out of college doesn't guarantee any of those three, and in that sense, is a very risky decision.
Aha, I get it now! Thanks for explanation. I now realize that this also annoys me a bit -- when I've scrolled a page and then do Ctrl+L (or Cmd+L), then press Tab, it scrolls the page up to focus on the first focusable element on the page.
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This may get downvoted because it may not necessarily add much to the discussion, but I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your story. Takes a lot of courage and it will undoubtedly help someone else (deaf or otherwise).
I've been playing too much shogi, all I want to do when watching this game is drop a pawn.
Selecting your data can make your numbers look better than numbers that are generated in a more authoritative fashion. If you're in the business of developing a market of suckers, this may be a profitable practice.
You could write a script called 'python' that runs bpython if passed no parameters and python otherwise.
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Tangentially, I was recently noticing how few people who are physically disabled I've seen in the software industry, much less people with disabilities affecting communication. Whether it's discrimination or other factors, it seems like there are likely a lot of potential workers which our society is not making good use of.
For one, the green button may not be fast enough. There are many ways flash cells can be killed en masse. Individually rewriting each cell would take much longer. Someone can then pull the plug and stop the entire process.
IIRC, Firefox's private browsing mode is older than Incognito.
Warning: A long meandering post, about multiple things, because my day job is at a relay center, taking calls from/to deaf people.

I absolutely understand his fear of letting a relay operator help him here. Now, obviously this fellow can write in English awesomely, and like any other place my coworkers are great people and (the vast majority are) trying to do their job well, so on paper you'd think it could work... But man, when it gets ugly, it gets ugly. You never realize just how much conversations change when a single "not", "un", or required inflection is left out. You know how us hearing people may misunderstand a joke or reference in text/IM? Yeah. That times twenty, because when texting/IMing, you're trying to take the medium into account. Phone conversations are so trivial to the hearing, we ramble at a million miles per hour and often don't include references to our demeanor in words or tone.

It even matters what state the relay operator is working for at the time, as the laws of how the call must be handled are state laws. In Utah you must read exactly what's typed by a deaf person, even if they speak ASL, and must directly transcribe what a hearing person says, even if the deaf person doesn't speak English well. In California, where many people primarily speak ASL, you can translate from English to ASL, and ASL to English. Of course, for us hearing people it's less translation, more interpretation.

One of the biggest problems I have at work? Phone lines suck. It's hard for us to hear (not to understand the deaf accent of, but literally audibly hear) so many callers, both deaf and hearing. And it's rough transcribing a voice with normal call quality and even moreso if the other connection is bad. I never realized just how bad phones sucked until I worked there. I can go home and use Google Talk on my laptop and it sounds crystal clear in comparison to any phone.

Relay calls work well for saying hi to your mother and (usually) calling up your cell phone provider. You will not be explaining fizz buzz to a potential employer. I love my coworkers, but the first time you say "So you'd use a switch-case statement," they'd write "So you use which case statement q" ("Q" indicates a question,) and keep typing, because asking people to repeat themselves infuriates them, and makes them lose their concentration. And because of honest mis-hearing. You don't know the topic, so you don't know you heard it wrong, so you go on.

Finally, why don't modern cell phones handle TTY calls? Turn the phone landscape, put a scrolling conversation banner at the top and the keyboard at the bottom. You'd think it'd be cake. Anyone know what the problem is there? If nothing, then someone get on that, make an app. Make yourself some money. Just credit me as an inspiration. ;)
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Depends on the use case. If you are using it in as a website authoring tool, it makes sense to store the rich-edit user input as HTML itself.

However, in a scenario like commenting or composing a message (where only limited editing options are available), storing in a format such as Markdown make sense.
If I could +1 this a million times... that's the number one feedback I receive from CMS users in commercial environments. Please make it convenient for them to create tables!
Google has been the defacto gatekeeper of the web for some time now.

The nice thing is that their business model doesn't seem to revolve around locking people into any particular system.
In fact they want the opposite, as far as they are concerned everyone should be equal in terms of clicking on ads.
I think developers forgot to get rid of all the javascript alerts from home page
You won't get exposed to language nearly as much as a hearing person. Also, sign languages don't use regular English words, so your vocabulary will not be expanded that much in conversations.
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ISO 8601 defines a number of lesser known features. For example, it allows for not only fractional seconds (12:34:56.78) but also fractional hours (12.3) and minutes (12:34.93). There is a special notation for the midnight of certain day (24:00:00 or 24:00), and obviously another for a positive leap second (08:59:60 etc.). There are three ways to write a date: 2012-05-21, 2012-W21-1 and 2012-142. Intervals can be specified in terms of start and end, start and duration, duration and end, just a duration (i.e. no context). There are also recurring intervals which can be bounded in the number of recurrences or not. And so on and on and on.

That said, ISO 8601 tries to cover most cases for date/time representation. Implementing every bit of ISO 8601 is not desirable of course, but it is certainly worth looking at.
Hope you get some use out of it - don't forget to let me know any issues you have. Also there's some other neat JS-querying systems linked in these comments, so check those out and see which meets your needs!
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Either they overlooked it, like many people here seem to have done, or they realised that a story on how Microsoft is in a fight to the death with Google and Facebook is much more interesting and much more likely to draw tons of readers than a description of a fairly harmless Microsoft research project.

Even if it's not true.
FYI: difference between Chrome and Chromium:

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Does BPython play nice with matplotlib/pylab yet? Last time I was very impressed with its functionality, but I could get it to draw a graph properly.

Fortunately, IPython, especially with the new --qtconsole, is also very very good.
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Just want to say I strongly identified with the lunchtime loneliness thing. I recently moved to the Netherlands and fortunately, I am in the position to change the fact that I can't understand what people are saying (by learning the language) - but still, I've had quite a lot of incredibly lonely lunchtimes until I could pick up what people were talking about.

It really was the time of day that I started to just get down about before it even began, and would spend time at my desk rather than try to participate in lunchtime. I'm a naturally sociable person so it was a bit "step back" for me to not be able to understand the conversation, and I especially hated not being able to understand the jokes.

I still have this, but of course I have the option to learn the language, which I am doing. I don't have any suggestions on how to improve this experience for you, just want to let you know that you are far from alone in experiencing this, and there are many people out there that understand how isolating it can be in the workplace.
This movie clip feels like it could be featured in a dystopian sci-fi movie in which a big corporation has all the power. Just waiting for Deckard to walk by a billboard and see this playing.
You're being a little harsh. I can relate to the frustration a player feels when progress seems to stall, unless you put some effort studying openings and endings.

Anyway, I agree with you. "To be a human database" is like saying that a musician is a "human sequencer". The joy of playing a good game or a difficult song has nothing to do with feeling like a machine. And you don't need to be a master to enjoy. In FICS there are enough players of my level so I can win... sometimes.

As for the discipline thing, there is something very important that chess teachs: the discipline of what works. It's following the rules that you win, not doing just what you would like. The frustration usually disappears when you accept that.

The sequential forced way of combinations is in particular a habit that helps me with my work.
Also worth mentioning: W3Schools since their user-base is mostly technical (web developers).

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