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Reading high quality code helps a ton. See how great programmers write code in the languages they're experts in. You can bet any Javascript written by John Resig is going to be high quality. Learn why he writes code the way he does.

There are style and "best practices" guides for many languages. Python has PEP-8. Perl has the "Perl Best Practices" and "Modern Perl" books. Javascript has "Javascript: The Good Parts". Go has "Effective Go".
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George W. Bush 'Damaged The Security Of The Country'
A couple things here:

First, the "party leaders" are Melenchon and now Le Pen. Melenchon probably really believes that Snowden is doing the right thing, but his Front de Gauche (Leftist Front) is the lowest-polling of the serious parties in France, and is not very well respected outside of its core base. Le Pen is an ultra-nationalist who only wants to protect him to spite the US. The Greens are in coalition with the Parti Socialiste, but it's Hollande who's really running that show.

Second, what Hollande said is completely meaningless; it's a bland, knee-jerk press release that had to be said, but everyone knows that everyone spies on each other. He has no intention of actually upsetting the status quo.

Unless we hear from Hollande's lips that he wants to offer asylum to Snowden, this is non-news.
What is in a number? If you want to just look at the number given it seems awfully light to most.

Step back a bit and it makes a bit more sense. Payments authorized to data providers, along with legal immunity from prosecution given. Financiers like Bank of America seem to benefit off the data directly in a few ways, squashing domestic political dissidents while remaining unable to be prosecuted.

So couple monetary payments (bribes), legal immunity given (what for the bribes and all) and it seems a rather large case of global market manipulation. Indeed how many of these companies can say their profits are not in part sourced by access and inertia given by federal resources doling out immunity to chosen ones.

I would say 20 million is as false of a number as James Clapper's statements regarding NSA monitoring US citizens via firms he has financial stake in. Rather false indeed. Perhaps not an outright lie, but detached enough from reality where it should not be considered the truth.

Libor rate fixing, predatory lending, what else has been enabled by US/UK's need to have helpful data providers or financiers for their efforts?

$20 million USD is a lie. The cost of corruption is massive and burdens us all.
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And you can't just rely on natural mending processes and neural plasticity to make up the difference.

I wonder about that. I can see healing and plasticity going a very long way over time, but intuition is telling me there's not enough plasticity in the wiring of critical autonomic functions.
You haven't read about the outrage from countries, citizens, human rights activists, etc? Lawsuits from the ACLU? Ecuador dropping their favored trade status (trade favors go both ways). At the very least, this has harmed the public image of the US government just by the very nature of its public reveal.
Well that 80% drop in traffic is going to ensure that it doesn't pay any more. They've probably spent millions on infrastructure that will no longer be generating revenue, I imagine they'll see losses while they adjust.
Microsoft has announced the retirement of the TechNet Subscriptions service
If you were diagnosed with brain cancer, would you be pleased if you were offered a head transplant as a cure?

No, you would not.

Now if you had terminal cancer spread all over your body, would you accept a body transplant as a treatment option?

It's a body transplant.
It used to be, when you clicked a link on Google, you left Google to go elsewhere. Now, you search for something like sushi, then go to Google Maps, then see the phone number, then call.

I'm not _necessarily_ saying this is bad or unwanted, but it's a vast philosophical and product shift for Google. And it has implications for the trustworthiness and long-term usefulness of Google.

I do not welcome a future where Google invalidates the business models of businesses like Yelp by delivering their content in such a way that makes going to Yelp unnecessary. I don't want all of my websites to be subsumed by a corporate behemoth, so I get short term better products, but long term stifled innovation.
I definitely recommend clicking on the "related story" link to "The War Against Boys", written by Christina Sommers in 2000. American education has been failing boys for quite some time now. All parents have a responsibility to educate themselves on this topic.
I realize that, that is why I posted the excerpt. The link was submitted with a question mark at the end of the title that was not found in the actual article title. I took that to mean that the submitter was suspicious of the claim.
As a father of two boys, I cannot agree enough with this article. I just wonder how I can send this article to the teachers at my boys schools without offending them.
You are trying to argue that his intent was to harm the United States except that nothing he has done is inconsistent with reasonable behavior associated with well intentioned whistle blowing. The only incentive for his actions supported by evidence is the desire to do good.
I wasn't just talking about Siri.
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The general idea you propose has a lot of merit. One nit though -

>how long a user used the app prior to reviewing

Unfortunately, if the app crashes right after loading it on your phone then you won't have a very long time of use before reviewing it. I'm not sure your 1 star review should be discounted in this situation.
Viewing this superficially, but with benefit of having observed the musical chairs of C level roles for some years, at a glance I would view this as "leveling up" to the CEO role.

I'm sure he's already rather well off. This is, I would guess, essentially resume building.

It becomes not about the institution nor its ultimate success, but about you.
Why would they ship him back? That would be just a weakness. They can afford to keep him.
The Chinese didn't take his data.
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> submit any content but your own

Plenty of people submit their own content. In fact, it's encouraged. You have reddit confused with digg, somehow.
Well, that and Usenet.

And TOR.

And I2P.

And Freenet.

And GNUnet.

And eDonkey.

And so on...
Google has enough cash to invest into both native and web platforms, and see which one (if any) prevails. At the end of the day, more platforms is access to more developers and the apps they make, which in turn is more incentive for end users to buy the devices, whatever OS they happen to run.

Mozilla is leveraging a large existing developer base and relying on the brand power and capabilities of Firefox that they have full control over. Their choice of market is interesting too, as it seems to be largely served by low-cost hardware stuck with outdated Android installs with no upgrade paths on the horizon. Meanwhile, Google is distancing itself from Android as a product and instead pushing own devices as "the" Android experience, leaving the low-cost hardware market with stale software.

These seem like thought-out strategic moves Mozilla is capable of pulling. It'll be interesting to see how things play out.
Why? Unused RAM is just wasted RAM. In an ideal world, we would use all unused RAM for aggressive caching, and release it just before it's needed by something other than caching. That Firefox frees up the memory when you start other apps seems to indicate it does it exactly right.
In the brain, the hardware is the software. (Kind of like an FPGA, if I'm not mistaken?) Neural plasticity, which is essentially the extent to which the software can be modified by reforging connections between neurons, has its limitations, both in magnitude and rate. If you cut off someone's hand and put a foot in its place, chances are you could get a little basic functions, but rewriting the area of the motor cortex corresponding to that hand takes a good long time and will likely never be complete.

It's not inconceivable that the brain could successfully send an action potential all the way from the cortex to the tip of the toe in a new body, but the 'rewiring' that would need to take place to make it happen in concert with the million other neurons (and many times that number in connections and networks) necessary for basic control or locomotion is simply not feasible on this scale.

Putting a new finger where an old finger was removed is hard enough, and the brain has enough trouble rewiring itself to make that halfway decent. Rewiring for a whole limb or body, to say nothing of all the viscera, I really just don't see happening without some kind of massive assistance on a nano level, stuff that's sci-fi for now.
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I find this believable considering where claims to come from (first time investor?). I'd probably consider trying something similar, except I'd not be willing to wade through hundreds of poorly written, partly fake/satirical pitches because I don't believe in finding rare gems among them just because the barrier to entry is so low. More complicated and time-consuming processes like YC's are not based on a whim and seem to work very well for a reason.
Firefox was and is chided for feeling sluggish, crashing, and the likes. Most assume(d) these problems are related to the memory and process model. As well, the "memory bashing" was largely related to presuming the memory was "leaked," which turned out to be true. Such assumption have not been applied to Chrome, as far as I know. It was never anything I was much concerned with -- Firefox consuming too much memory. It was better than IE, in speed (re: not appearing to be sluggish) and tooling. Now Chrome takes a lead in those regards; mechanical test-results do not parallel my experiences.
There are two schools of thought for privacy enhancing technologies. The ghostery model is to try not to be disruptive and to ask as little as possible of the user. No script takes the other approach which is a "default block" and require the user to whitelist sites that she needs to work.
Gini (http://getgini.com) is a social spreadsheet app. I'm taking one single use case of Google docs - making lists collaboratively - and making it super awesome. Think of it like a Github of spreadsheets.

Here's a rough roadmap of features - http://getgini.com/lists/152-priority-features

And here's an excellent topical example of a crowdsourced list - http://getgini.com/google-reader-alternatives

Please sign up, make a list or two and give me feedback.
Has anyone sat down and tried to itemise all the taboos this would break?

I don't consider myself especially squeamish, bit this concept creeps the hell out of me!
Problem is, there are no buses that take the kids home from their after-school activities. I don't know where you live, but there are many school districts in the US where kids can't walk home or expect their parents to drive them to and from school or a friend's house.

When I was in school, my house was an hour and a half bus ride from school. My parents worked in the other direction. Outside of being at school, there was no hope for social interaction unless we were in town for a festival. I'm also not arguing for turning classes into a free for all. I pretty explicitly said there should be room for social interaction outside of class. In districts with split lunch hours, there's literally no free-form social interaction unless you're on one of the last buses to leave at the end of the day.
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Not a new thing: http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/10359-60-of-google-visitors-...
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Chrome DevTools has the ability to adjust UA and viewport values, under the gear menu. Random search result... http://blog.divshot.com/post/29829585371/chrome-developer-to...
"How many times have you been in a conversation, and picked up your phone to Google something you’re talking about. And after reading the result, you check your homescreen, and a few seconds later, you’re reading your tweets or your Facebook newsfeed, and no longer contributing to the conversation? Being able to ask Google anything and instantly get the answer without having to use your phone is magical."

This is a problem of focus and attention, not an interface problem. If you play with your phone when you're supposedly spending time with friends, glass is just going to make this significantly worse (because now you're looking towards me but still scrolling through your FB feed).

"And with Google Now, you know how bad the traffic is and how long your ride home is going to be without having to ask for it."
I use a better solution today. Waze has routed me around traffic jams with amazing success, and it didn't cost me anything (since I already invested in my smartphone).

Everything I've read on glass so far seems to be taking some big leaps to justify the device. As others have said, it will lead us towards some interesting solutions eventually, but it is definitely not the best solution to ANYTHING.
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> "The main limitation of Lua coroutines is that, since they are implemented with setjmp(3) and longjmp(3), you cannot use them to call from Lua into C code that calls back into Lua that calls back into C, because the nested longjmp will clobber the C function’s stack frames. (This is detected at runtime, rather than failing silently.)"

Lua 5.2 provides a mechanism to help with this: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.7
Still ~$320,000 per month... nothing to sneeze at there either. I somehow doubt their infrastructure costs anywhere near that.
>> My personal goal is to figure out how to make enough money to keep my children out of the insanity of public schools.

> It doesn't necessarily take a lot of money to homeschool children

I interpreted his original comment to mean they wanted to make enough money that they (or their spouse) had enough time to home-school. I'd be really surprised if the cost of materials approached the opportunity cost of the parents' time (although those are fungible to some extent).
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Ask HN: Local State School CS major vs. Math/Econ Name Brand Uni?
I'm a rising college sophomore, who applied for transfer admission to some schools, and got off the waitlist for a Name Brand University (think Michigan, UVa, Rice). My current uni has a solid CS dept (top 25 based on grad rankings), but the school's I'm looking to transfer to have a better overall rep and more recruiters come to these schools. I applied to the arts and sciences colleges for transfer, and at the moment I'm a Math/Econ major. I can try to switch into CS, but I'll probably end up with a B.A instead of a B.S. (same classes though). Worst case scenario, I'd major in Math/Econ with a minor in CS, would I still be a strong candidate? I know C/C++, Python, Java, R, and Javascript. Also familiar with some open source projects, andhavesome side projects (post on github and all that). Most of the stuff I know is self taught, so I'm not worried about gaining skills. Will employers care if I have Math/Econ degree instead of a CS one?
Odd moves to and from Zynga. Their former COO, Vish Makhijani, went to Udacity recently.
I think ghostery is probably the better choice for non-tech folks. You are a better son than I am, I should install ghostery or my mother. For people with a little time and basic knowledge of how the web works I think NS+RP is the way to go.
It would seem like EU dropping their planned trade agreement would be a much bigger blow. Not to mention the animosity it has created towards the US in general. European leaders are demanding answers, and the US is staying silent. It's not good, that's for sure.
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One idea could be to start contribute to open source. Mozilla for example. Along with the coding you do you could presumably ask other programmers working on it to assess your code.
AT a $13 million dollar cost, that's a barrier to entry... I'll take SuperMan's body please...

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From reddiquette.
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Try startpage

https://startpage.com/

It's basically google, but without the tracking. (Or so they say.)
On the other hand, low-margin businesses are often low-risk, stable businesses. A grocery store has crappy margins, but excellent stability.
I don't claim that advertising is the only vector of influence, and I realize it is possibly the least worst version (because of labeling), but that hardly seems like a reason to consider it a Good Thing.

Your argument seems to be that if we get rid of sponsored search results, this will push advertisers to invest more heavily in less visible forms of opinion manipulation. This is actually a very interesting viewpoint and possibly a valid argument, but it also feels like coercion in some way ("give us ad space or we'll reach you via less ethical methods").
It goes pretty far, and it is amazing, but the limitations are real and are encountered even on seemingly "simple" transplants like a finger. Critical autonomic functions, actually, may work fine, because they are more self-contained - the heart regulates itself, the gut in many ways as well, and many actions like breathing and basic drives are, to my knowledge, rather "standardized" between humans in the lower part of the brain. That's why we all have similar reactions to touching something hot or sharp, being hungry, out of breath, etc.
There is something that angers me a bit about this sentiment, and I am speaking as a US citizen here. Snowden has harmed the US government by embarrassing it, causing civil rights groups to file lawsuits, and by causing a trade agreement to possibly fail over his request for asylum? It sounds like you are saying we should just keep quiet about government abuses, which is basically the opposite of what America is supposed to stand for.
Dawkins's concept of memes provides an interesting way to look at the nature of humanity, society, and civilizations. It's a simple concept, too: something graspable by any reasonably observant person. It's perhaps a little sad that something which represents naught but a shadow of the original idea has overtaken it in such a popular forum.

Is it possible that the meme of Dawkins's "meme" could itself die out, killed off by a parasitic invasive species that claimed its very name? Without that name, how do we talk about them?

Or, is the spread of the name 'meme' to mean 'image macros' instead indicative of the power of Dawkins's original idea? Here we are, looking at a community of a million teenagers, most of them utterly uninterested in thinking about the spread of ideas, taking a name from science and applying it to their own culture. The kids aren't even using the word incorrectly: image macros are a meme; individual examples are memes themselves, competing, reproducing, thriving, dying.

Fun to think about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDqh-r8TQgs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_...
Well done. Neat way to look at cost, etc. He definitely didn't have to spend a lot on marketing (other than time).
The US will quietly offer to release one or more Russian "spies" caught in the USA in exchange for them handing over Snowden. This type of thing happened all the time during the Cold War.
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I don't think the petition idea is inherently bad. I just think the petition system would be a lot more useful if it was also directed to every House representative and Senator. Then the politicians would have a much better idea of what people care about in their districts.