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It's just a style issue. From 2004 until very recently gay couples in England could only get a 'civil partnership', not a marriage; possibly because of that 'X is Y's partner' in the UK is these days understood as meaning a romantic attachment. (The business meaning still exists, but is phrased as e.g. "X and Y are both partners at Foobar LLP" rather than "X is Y's partner").
Except that the world population is increasing (more of us), proportionally fewer people live in grinding poverty (more time) and more of us have access to diverse communications technology (more access). Seems to me attention isn't much like real estate.
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Don't use "objects". Embrace the associative array that is a JSON (I know, Object is in the name) construct. Getters and setters are not necessary with this.
I'm still not convinced. The attempt by one government to carry out 'economic nudging' does not mean that the nudging has had any real effect. There is also the problem that countries without such attempts (eh.. Sri Lanka?) are having any different results in people working bullshit jobs.

Again, the argument is plausible but is a long way from being compelling, for me at least. The simplest answer - that people are doing what they do because it's how people work - is far more compelling for me. The right answer is usually the one that passes the 'least surprise' test the best.

What would surprise you more?

1. A group of the government and wealththy individuals
are managing to convince the entire population into
working bullshit jobs.

2. People without jobs don't feel they have a purpose
and try to create a purpose in any way they can,
such as copying those who do appear to have a purpose.
At a guess, personalised tracking information perhaps?
Basically yes.

Most sites that have found the need to implement bans by address consider this collateral damage to be worth it - in fact to get around it being difficult to IP-ban someone on an ISP that hands out variable addresses some will ban a whole range (first banning one address, then another, then another, and after several addresses in a range (something like a /20 or more - a /24 would not cover all but the smallest ISP's dynamic address pool) are banned the whole range gets the hammer, at least temporarily.

IPv6 will make a difference if its adoption means that the use of NAT drops considerably, but even if every device really does have a unique address there is still the problem of several users on the same device (implementing per-user addresses on a single device is never going to happen as it is just too much hassle for little or no gain).
Original link was AFAIK http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...
Well... since everyone are sharing their readers, I'll share mine: http://theoldreader.com/

The one feature that most others don't have, sharing and commenting with friends.
Pedant. :P Yes the EU name was formed in 1993. But there was the EC or EEC before then, which was basically the same thing.
Xenophobia seems like a deeply seated part of the American culture. We started out in an 'us versus them' scenario against our british rulers, then went on to subjugate and oppress various minority cultures that were supposed to be welcomed here. Not to mention the natives who lived on this continent in the first place...
Ask HN: What was your first ever hack?
By 'hack' I mean some kind of software or hardware project you put together kinda hastily for fun and learning, I guess. "Hello world" does not count.
Source: http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2013/08/what-nsas-massive-or...

Which was posted a few days ago here (no comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214799
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There is also a lot of examples of abusing anti-terrorism laws and how it drives people to the "other side". You'd think they'd learn...
See my comment on your post - but this would make for a great game-kit.

If you could come up with a flexible system for the fog-of-war and organize parts of the map to work with the areas they'd cover, then let parents/kids share/collaborate online or offline to make their own adventurers.

If this were a Kickstarter project I'd back it in a heart beat
the use of const in node.js at least can be used today and I think should be for all required modules... for example, it's always bothered me in node.js that most examples are written in the following way:

var fs = require('fs');

fs is such an easy name to give to any random variable in a function

function foo() {
var fs = 88; // just overwrote fs module..
}

I do two things in my non-standard way...

const FS=require('fs');

it makes more sense to me... i'm less likely to write in a random function:

function foo() {
var FS = 88;
}

Just my thought... node.js supports const for a long time I wish examples would use it for required modules...
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I could probably make a list of things, but they'd be specific to my particular needs. Generally, each week, I think of one or two services or products that I wish I had.

At this very moment, I wish I had a service that would crawl the web and extract recipes and save them in a standard format with standardized ingredients, units of measure, equipment, and procedures. But, that's just me.
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Not directly, but if they are used to get around legal limitations then yes.

There is no specific law covering this sort of thing which is why cases of this nature are often grey areas: it all depends on how you interpret/implement laws written to cover the physical world as you transcribe them to operate online. For instance gaining access to money by pretending to be in a country where you would qualify for a grant in, despite living elsewhere, is fraud - gaining access to resources online the same way using a proxy to pretend you come from somewhere else is the same thing.

As with many tools proxies themselves are not illegal (well, in most territories!) and have a great many legal uses, but they can be used as part of an attempt to get away with breaking the law.
people make up titles at startups, nothing strange here. 180 people is not a 'startup' and you also forgot cmo...
Relevant: https://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/Contributing
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To start, here's mine...

When I was about 15, I spent a lot of time on web forums.

These were the types of forums where you’d ask your fellow forumites — the ones with ‘m4d photoshop skillz’ — for a new avatar based on some character from some video game, or with some crazy visual madness using the infamous Render Clouds… tool in photoshop, or maybe a cool typographic avatar with your username in it. (I was “Frag_of_lag” back then.)

Well, I was fickle, and I liked to change mine a lot, so I came up with a PHP script which chose from three random images to cycle through whenever that script was hit. So as an avatar, somebody could set that script, with their username as a query string, as the URL, and every time that person was seen on the forum they’d have a different avatar. There was a little control panel and you could upload new pictures whenever you liked, after logging into your account.

This was cool! I had an actual thing, that actual people could use, and they actually did! I think I probably had about 50-100 users, which isn’t a huge amount, but it felt good. I even had a feature which allowed people to add more pictures if they sent me a little bit of money on PayPal. Premium features! What an app! I think only one person ever did this, and it might’ve been my mum.

On refection, this app was ripe for abuse. I didn’t protect against SQL injection and I stored the images in the database. There was every chance that simply by putting someone else’s username in the querystring, and encoding something in the right way, a malicious user with a hilarious sense of humour could replace their enemy’s avatar(s) with lots and lots of penises. Well, nobody ever did this, luckily.

It wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t clever, but it was cool to me, and I’d found a problem that apparently some people had, and come up with a solution that they were willing to use. I was proud.
This must beg the question: is math formal language expressive enough? Too often, the ideas are really simple but the mathematical formulation is extraordinarily complex. The first time I realized this was with Fourier transforms. Analytically, it is hell to understand the fundamentals, while if you read the original description by Fourier, it becomes dead obvious (as most great ideas, after the fact)
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Did you ever actually use Go for a few minutes? Most of these bullet points are plain wrong.
Is it really so difficult to allocate capital that just about every city needs skyscrapers full of finance people? I'm asking that as a completely legitimate question - I really have no idea of how much work is required to give my small business a line of credit.
It would probably had to be heavily subsidized by the state. If you could turn solar energy to food, cheaply and reliantly enough you could never have to starve, and food price would plummet.

Just plop a solar panel and eat your manufactured cucumber. Problem is that agriculture today doesn't create it reliably enough (drought, heavy weather can destroy your crops).
I think what he's suggesting is inverse of the outcome of HGTTG - that the telephone sanitzers wipe out all the ineffectual upper management people who do no or limited real work.

Neither is a plausible solution, although his seems more valid if you would consider decimating the ineffectual upper management class rather than outright removal.
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> More than 6 months ago people already knew that Notch gave up.

I don't know about "people," but I certainly didn't know it. I was just checking the website http://0x10c.com as recently as a few weeks ago.
The wacky version of esoteric community celebrity worship around here is not useful. It does not produce any knowledge I can apply or find enlightening. It is not relevant to my day, is it relevant to yours? I do not understand why people find this sort of thing appealing.
Never mind. The OP was a professor. That is how an academic paper is written: explicitly mentioning the real reason in just one or two sentences to avoid attacks from reviews, then associating a very minor or irrelevant fact to the phenomenon as the novel finding and main contribution of their work.
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I suspect that many countries have 'us vs them' struggles in their past. Surely the US is not unique in this regard?
Ask HN: How can we make the ubuntu edge campaign achieve its target?
With only 66 hours left and 20+ million to be raised, can we somehow make the campaign achieve the target?
Well atleast the guy training others in the opening picture needs to :-). He is mixing cases in javascript (defined TXT and doing txt.toLowerCase()). Perhaps an HTML dude who is doing javascript.
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I've gotten into so many flame wars over GMO by taking a side that is sympathetic to anti-GMO activists.

I have a degree in biology. I'm sympathetic to the activists even though I do not agree scientifically with many of their claims. Thing is that I can see why they are skeptical of GMOs and why they do not trust the companies making them, and I don't think their reaction is especially irrational.

And I've always been skeptical of GMOs for different reasons. I studied evolutionary biology a lot, and the set-up that you get with GMOs always struck me as similar to the set-up you get when you over-use one single antibiotic. At first it works beautifully, but then the bugs adapt. In this case the entire ecosystem adapts.

Transgenes are natural. Horizontal gene transfer happens all the time. This destroys a lot of the BS claims of the activists, but it is also a problem for the supposed benefits of GMO crops... as we see here.

I also think the issue of patents and self-reproducing organisms is a legal hell-hole.
Hmm. Seems hard to do soundly in the presence of higher order control flow (e.g. pass the interface to a closure in a global variable—will the closure downcast it to another interface you didn't expect?)
While theoretically true, I think for most accounts the risk is fairly small: I'm sure it's hard to come up with something to tweet from my account that moves any stock exchange even a penny.
Stick around a while before you start making self-righteous posts about what the community should be.
Mobile is what matters nowadays.
Lot's of Adderall/Ritalin and she's bound to be successful in life.
Anyone interested enough in building an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) system? I've always been curious about this field, but never done anything about it or have any experience. Nevertheless, if there are any hackers who are into AI, curious or want to build such systems. Contact me, let's explore the possibilities.
Understanding slices :

- slice.c, http://golang.org/src/pkg/runtime/slice.c
- Dynamic arrays, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_array
Chomsky's dogmatism and oversimplification of complicated factors weakens his points (some selective polls I'm not linking to show overwhelming support for things the government doesn't do - but compared to how many things with overwhelming support that is done by the government?). There are certainly plenty of examples of ways the US is not a perfect democracy, or even a perfect democratic republic, but it is trivial to disprove that it behaves nothing like one.
The continued existence of lecturing, 4 decades or more after it's been shown to be a poor use of time?

An article I recently read (written only 30 years ago) attributed a lot of this to the academic's ego enjoying the feel of being an expert, when a printed sheet of paper, written by someone else would have a bigger impact on the students attending the lecture.
This is exactly it. On a related note, look at how fast food restaurants no longer sell fast, cheap food. Instead they sell experiences. McDonalds has the McCafe thing, and even KFC is trying to rebrand itself as something more like Panera Bread.

We have moved beyond the point where the item itself is readily available, so what is desired now is the experience that goes with it.
Don't work publicly on it then, problem solved.

Think he enjoys the part of the project where he gets fans excited and talks about huge ideas more than actually working on and finishing a job.
How does using associative arrays reduce the need for non-trivial getters and setters? I see how it provides an alternative to trivial getter and setter pairs; just as using bare public data fields in a language that supports them does, but non-trivial or non-paired (getter or setter alone) or different visibility ones seem to be a different issue.
I think the word you are looking might be "teleology".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology
Most of us would probably stop programming

No - I presume most on here are hackers and not only in it for success. The difference is that I'd stop coding for others, and do it for myself, pursuing the challenges that excited me, independent of the income they could generate. Which is what I think Notch is doing - he doesn't owe anyone anything.
I would disagree with your comments in that they paint current culture with brush from multiple centuries ago. Not that more recent xenophobia examples don't/can't exist but I wouldn't give them the primary effect. Especially for moderns mostly descended from folks who immigrated a century or so ago, long after all that stuff happened. And in modern culture the average poorly educated fool can barely tell the difference between Columbus and the Pilgrims.

My suggestion is its more likely to be stereotypical modern american rebellion. Give them freedom of religion, they rebel by becoming hard core fundamentalists. Give them economic opportunity and freedom and they rebel by turning themselves into cubical drones enslaved to bank loans. Give them free libraries and schools and they rebel by embracing ignorance as a chosen lifestyle. Give them freedom of the press from govt interference and at least some rebellious throwbacks will demand drone strikes against anyone opposed to oppressive programs.

Its a pretty effective stereotype. If you give an American something like XYZ, then you can pretty well assume dominant cultural desire will be for the opposite ABC as their natural first response. Logically weird, but observation proves it to be true in most cases.
And the US is not unique in its xenophobia either.
> The reality is that there is massive state intervention in the productive economy and the free-trade agreements are anything but free-trade agreements. That should be obvious. Just to take one example: The information technology (IT) revolution, which is driving the economy, that was based on decades of work in effectively the state sector – hard, costly, creative work substantially in the state sector, no consumer choice at all, there was entrepreneurial initiative but it was largely limited to getting government grants or bailouts or procurement. Except by some economists, that’s underestimated but a very significant factor in corporate profit. If you can’t sell something, hand it over the government. They’ll buy it.

> After a long period – decades in fact – of hard, creative work, the primary research and development, the results are handed over to private enterprise for commercialization and profit. That’s Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and so on. It’s not quite that simple of course. But that’s a core part of the picture. The system goes way back to the origins of industrial economies, but it’s dramatically true since WWII that this ought to be the core of the study of the productive economy.

Can someone comment on this? I am of course aware of ARPA and DARPA but is it really as one sided as he says?
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Love the call to teach children programming. For those interested in getting into this world, one of the longest running related projects is MIT Media Lab's Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/

On top of this, I think it's a wonderful idea to teach not only kids, but also high school students to code (or at least try to initiate motivation to learn computer science).
Yes, I know. But that's not what we're talking about.
IE's been a solid HTML5 browser for a couple years now. As good as Opera or Safari, certainly.
Same in Go, because of panic and recover. For example, "foo.Bar", if foo is a nil pointer, can invisibly branch to an exception handler you installed in the caller's caller's caller.
How about a IP- and/or MAC adress as an extra layer of security? On a sidenote: If this makes App's that wishes to post on my behalf disappear I wouldn't mind.
It's a pain to upgrade using this.
If you're looking for a way in which this applies to you as someone who was never familiar with _why until his disappearance was originally broken on this website four years ago today, I'd invite you to either read the post this links to, or else bear the following in mind:

* build something awesome, or fun to build
* help a young person do the same

If you don't think this will improve your abilities (I'd assert that it will) then at least it might help you remember why you got into this game in the first place.
You can mostly blame our leaders and media for this. And the crappy working class economy, large number of immigrants and globalization for the rest.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-inva...

Going by history, the UK is the most threatening entity ever...
Keep in mind that GMO is not just about replacing pesticides, but also about adding other benefits to plants - like in the case of golden rice, or the weeds that glow in the dark.
The beginnings of computers being used for artillery projections and code breaking and then transferred over to commercial enterprise almost wholesale is documented fairly well in a book called Turing's Cathedral, but there were all sorts of pissed off people when Von Neumann went ahead and commercialized stuff that invented by others and was top secret. The british couldnt even comment on the fact that they had computers for a good 30 years.
Whoa, this is hell cool! It make me miss the fun I had with my uncle...

My uncle loved to spend LOTS of time drawing stuff like this and making games similar to this one (although less RPGey and more puzzley)

Sometimes he did it with whatever paint software was available on the machine.

I never understood why instead of becoming a artist (he draw really well) or a game designer (he loved to design games) he went to become a prosecutor...

Also, another fun variation my uncle taught me: make your maps with matches, and use paper balls as characters (or coins, or beans, whatever), with matches you can simulate doors, opening and closing them, and have a more freeform roleplay thing, like simulate for example a space ship, and then a accident, as a asteroid hit the ship, and you then throw a heavy coin in your matches and see as they make a hole on the thing, and then the players try to survive in the ship full of holes, broken walls and stuck doors.

By the way, my uncle is still alive, is that we don't have time anymore :/ (also living 600km apart does not help either)
>Yet economic policies have changed little in response to one electoral defeat after another. The left has replaced the right; the right has ousted the left. Even the center-right trounced Communists (in Cyprus) – but the economic policies have essentially remained the same: governments will continue to cut spending and raise taxes.

I like his ability to cut to the truth of the matter. What the people vote for and desire is quite secondary at the end of the day.
Some of those reductions were actually pushed by companies themselves (Ford in the US being a commonly cited example), who measured productivity and found it dropped as work hours increased.

This only makes the standard US position on work crazier, however.
It's not just celebrity worship I don't think; it's a pretty good reminder to not forget play (and simultaneously a memoriam to someone who lived that out).

For those who appreciated _why's cultural contributions to the Ruby community, this is a relevant link.
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It's a good thing I only ask for read access, not write. Write access is getting pretty useless as people have started to ignore people's tweets since there are so much noise.
Atlantic hasn't been spared too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Rim_(film)
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It looks like xxHash was crated in 2012.

This document was lasted updated in 2007.
What book(s) would you recommend starting with?