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Erlang has a very nice concurrency approach, particularly if you are into distributed and fault tolerant systems.

But it's ridiculous to say that "only Erlang can do concurrency". Many other languages do concurrency very well in slightly different ways (Clojure, Scala and Go, for example).
I do find it disturbing that Sweden /requires/ you to send your kids to a government institute for hours each day to be educated.

In practice, of course, free education is a great privilege for most families, but I fail how you a free society in congruent with this law. I'm Swedish, but have left the country. The quality of Swedish schools is less than outstanding imo.
What's the difference between an h1b worker and a domestic worker?

The h1b worker knows he's a slave.
I guess we'll just have to read it twice then:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6298264
Most definitely a biased article. I scanned some of the court documents and a few things really stood out, in particular:

"Domenic himself has made it clear that not want to meet his parents or even talk about them."

Not something you would expect of a child forcibly removed from loving parents.

From what I read, the parents sound like a couple of douche bags that are more interested in themselves than the child.

Dissenting opinion to the decision to keep him in foster care agreed that the care under his parents was insufficient but that foster care may be over the top.
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To preface this, I think it's unfair to consider Windows Phone a failure at this point.

I think it's a matter of business models. OS X, like iOS has Apple hardware and software, huge margins and makes Apple the most profitable OEM in both markets.

Windows Phone, more like Android (and Windows of course) allows multiple manufacturers to provide it, and all those manufacturers who also produce Android phones are doing better with Android. It's not a totally fair comparison because they pay for WP licenses, but then they pay for MS patents with Android too.

There's also the issue of Nokia, an iconic manufacturer who bet everything on Windows Phone. It's not fair, but Windows Phone has the pressure of keeping Nokia alive.

Basically, Microsoft took the Windows approach to Windows Phone, in a market Android is entrenched with a similar (cheaper for OEMs) approach. In that light, 4% against 90% or so for Windows with the same model looks like a failure.
List of learning resources on HCI, UI/UX, Design
Try this one: http://sourcemaking.com/

They have video tutorials, written tutorials for multiple programming languages. The videos and articles / tutorials are easy to understand.
So the design principles for Glass are the same as for every other piece of software. Good to know.
Odd. Hadn't spotted that. Apologies for the repost.
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FWIW, that's exactly what happens with Verisign (or DigiNotar) when you connect to your banks SSL website…
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If the Monty Python sketch you're thinking of is the one where everyone is called 'Bruce' the accent is Australian, not American.
I have always wondered what would happen if Bill Gates would turn around one day and say 'fuck it, I'm going to open source the whole kit and kaboodle.'

What would it be like? Would people brave trying to fix all the problems in the windows kernel? I wonder what XP source code looks like. How many people would try to fork MS Office? Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free. Would Apple die or become larger? Would malware go through the roof, or be extinguished? What would large corporate license holders do with the savings? (would there even be that many savings in comparison to TCO?)
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> She found that bright girls, when given something to learn that was particularly foreign or complex, were quick to give up - and the higher the girls' IQ, the more likely they were to throw in the towel. In fact, the straight-A girls showed the most helpless responses. Bright boys, on the other hand, saw the difficult material as a challenge, and found it energizing. They were more likely to redouble their efforts, rather than giving up.

A prestigious English school for girls recognised this problem, and ran "failure week". Trying and failing is much better than not trying.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336)

(http://www.wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/failure-week.html)

Other techniques that some schools use are to stop asking students to put their hands up to answer a question - the teacher will pick a student who then has to try to answer. Being wrong is fine. The wrongness is where people learn.
Should an entrepreneur be running the country?
Interestingly, your other argument does apply here.

It's inappropriate to use the mean for world average income because it's inflated by very high earners. Very high earners (outliers) have a disproportionate effect on the mean that makes it unrepresentative.

Imagine if salaries were ${1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1000000}
Then the mean average would be $200000 - but you could not claim this represents most people.
The median is $1, which is more fairly representative.

As with any skewed distribution, the standard way to measure average income is by using the median.
There is broad agreement in official figures to use the median.

The BBC article is wrong to use the mean: the journalist appears to be confused in comparing the mean (which she calculates) to the median (standard published figure) and then claiming the difference results from patchy stats.
That the desperately poor exist and need genuine help is orthogonal to the question of how to get good governance. Anytime the question of good governance gets sidetracked into the zero sum narrative of the rich vs the poor, crappy governance wins.
> a government institute

What about private schools?
That's a big problem I see, too. In the past, the productivity increase caused by automatisation was either used for export (driven by economic growth in other countries) or domestic growth. At least in Germany baseline unemplyment increased all the time, so.

Now, that increased productivity isn't eaten up by external parties the basic options are

1. Stoping right here and wait (won't happen in our world)

2. Find a way to provide a living for the people no longer needed in any given economy (it's not their fault after all, and it seems to me that there's enough wealth for everybody)

3. Or continue with your option 3. Sadly enough I think it will be option 3 for quite a while.

Looking at the situation in some european contries right now (like Spain or Greece, maybe even Italy and France) which have somewhere around 50 % unemployment at the under 25 year olds this situation is already creeping up on us, slowly but non the less.
Have you asked for water in a US restaurant? Or herbs in a US store?

I have to modify my language. I have to soften the t in water to a d. I have to drop the h in herbs totally.
Are these actual details of this case (if so, where are you getting them?), or examples of possible explanations that might be left out in an article such as this?

I do get the sense there's quite a bit left out of the article.
I guess that's fine. You have always the option to leave a group of people/a society that has a different opinion.

Germany requires the same (Homeschooling isn't allowed, except in very specific cases -> A child that cannot be transported/isn't mobile at all for example).

For me that is The Right Way. The same education for everyone. If the public education sucks, we need to improve that not work around the issue.

And .. the majority of reasons for homeschooling are plain invalid in my world (often based on religious ideas, claiming that the curriculum is containing 'forbidden'/'evil'/'wrong' stuff).

'Free society' doesn't imply the right to do everything. You cannot drink and drive. You're not allowed to beat your (very own, hey you made those!) children. For some, myself included, the requirement to send your kids to a 'real' school is a necessary thing and not Restricting The Freedom.

You're free to disagree (both in Sweden and Germany), but in that case you need to decide if that freedom is important enough to warrant a move - or you can try to lobby against the majority/the status quo. Ignoring the state and law (as the family seemed to have done) or calling it wrong won't help.
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Seems to be that the previous submission of the link included a backslash and this one didn't. The HN software may not take that into account.
>The people who would receive the BI are the in the lowest income brackets.

Everyone would receive it. Otherwise it's not BI.
> Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free.

I'm under the impression it's already part of their strategy, and it's probably a cause why most people still use windows. They know they can easily download softwares on torrent websites, and MS is pretty much tolerant about it (as far as it's about individuals, not businesses).
I don't know how much I can say, but 1 section of any class is 10 hours of TA paid time. Period. Doesn't matter if you work less or more.

Though, often times, most TA's I know put in far more than their required time.
They say hiring for a startup is like dating - lets see about that
By the same user, no less!
I've heard it said that "only the middle-class can afford to be communists". The implication being that "to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities" only seems attractive when you equate "needs" with "middle-class standard of living". If you worked out what the actual standard of living would be if everyone's "means" were evenly distributed, communism suddenly becomes a lot less attractive.

Similarly, I think only the middle-class or wealthy can afford to be libertarians. Take, for example, the case of firefighters letting a house burn over an unpaid fee: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/07/9272989-firefight... . This is the world libertarians envision, and I'd wager most of them respond to news like this with "It's only $75 per year! That's not much at all..."

But what if it is?
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Speaking of Groucho-Marxism: http://sniggle.net/Manifesti/groucho.php.
This is true, but there is also the reverse situation - sometimes there is no hard data, in which anecdotes are the nearest thing that we have. I can't help feeling that "the plural of anecdote is not data" should require a link to the relevant data that the parent post had apparently missed. This would be an excellent rebuttal to the anecdote and advance the conversation more than the one-liner...
Something like a basic income or other provision of basic needs will be unavoidable at some point. Automation is coming for virtually all of us, and we simply won't require nearly the number of people to produce what the world needs.

We have to some degree offset this with rabid consumerism, debt, and globalization. The latter in the sense of both opening new markets and the appeal of low wage workers usurping the appeal/cost of automation. But as the wages in these countries rise and technology continues to evolve while growing ever cheaper, even this can't stem the tide forever.
It's also funny because, conceptually, it's not true. By anecdote we tend to mean one observation drawn from some system. If nothing else the anecdote tells you that that outcome has non-zero probability.
https://www.flashback.org/t1109355

In Swedish but they refer to the court documents (Google Translate):

"The man came driving straight toward the son and the foster mother in a car, got out, pulled her son into the car and drove away from the scene.
The man then switched to another car and slept two nights with her son in a barn and another outbuilding like space."

"The father was sentenced to prison for the unlawful detention, and has had restraining order against son with an extension until at least last fall."

"The boy lvu: was, among other things because he had been physically abused. The judges consisted of caries (!). When parents would move him to India at the age of eight, they had not vaccinated the boy. It was then that assistance was on the plane at Arlanda. Having grown up in Sweden and move to India without preparation of vaccinations can be dangerous. It was not about a charter trip to Goa, and even then, many people tend to take photos vaccines."

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

"But the police do not come and take children who do not go to school. Emma Östling says this stopped in the 1980s.
So there has to be a bigger issue for the local authority to justify taking a child away. This means that the local municipality's social department must have decided that the familiy's home was not a safe place for the child."
My least favorite—and all too popular—comment is the classic "How [or Why] did this make the front page of HN?" I have gotten to the point where I almost expect to see it near the top of every comments thread.

In fairness, the HN guidelines are pretty clear about this one:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
For simple placeholders you can use a client-side templates engine and pass it the JSON directly.
Hehe, pick your poison: http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ (This ties in with bane's much more detailed note below about adopting the "customer's style of speech." I do the same, and have a lot of experience in business & social contexts with Brazilians, Mexicans, Indians, Scots, and Chinese via my global organization, and it still boggles my mind how rare it seems to be for people to switch communication styles based on the skills and language/idiom of the person they're speaking with. The flip side, of course, is that when both sides are learning the other's language, if the conversation is attempted in both simultaneously a disaster almost always occurs. Tying in to another of bane's comments, if you are expecting to hear one thing but something else hits your ears, you're going to have a much tougher time comprehending it.
gender: "male",
name: {
title: "mrs",
first: "james",
last: "ramirez"
},

Never knew "mrs" can be used as a male title.
On balance I disagree with most of Ken's observations, though not always or in all cases.

A useful comment is one which moves the conversation forward. A non-useful comment is one which serves NO useful purpose.

Correlation is not causation. This is useful where a naive correlation is shown without causal mechanism. It's not useful when a correlation is shown and there's a strong causal link known.
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=552:_Correla...

If you're not paying for it, you're the product. I disagree that that this is useless, though it's not necessary to point it out without some justification.

"the legal duty to maximize shareholder value" Agree. Companies have numerous stakeholders. The "shareholder value" proposition was birthed by Milton Friedman and given a solid kick into the public eye by Jack Welch, who later called it "the world's dumbest idea": http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-orig...

[citation needed] Appropriate when someone makes an extraordinary, unsubstantiated, and difficult-to-source claim. No, this isn't Wikipedia, but it is a high quality, high s/n discussion site. Not appropriate where source is trivially confirmed or when intent is strictly snarky.

Premature optimization Depends on technical context. If substantiated, it's a fair gripe.

Dunning-Kruger effect Sadly, far too often appropriate, IMO.

Betteridge's law of headlines This is most often a meta-commentary: the story posted is vague and poorly conceived, it really shouldn't have made the front page. Increasingly I'm flagging such items (but not the Betteridge comments on them).

Logical fallacies As with "citation needed": the quality of discourse is served when people don't take cheap shots or rhetorical evasions. If you're trying to make a point and you're committing obvious logical fallacies, you deserve to be called on it.

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I use Faker :) http://faker.rubyforge.org/
Many (but not all!) people who homeschool do so because they wish to indoctrinate their children with weird beliefs or untruths, and because they want to prevent their children mixing with a diverse population.

Neo nazis, radical extreme Muslims, Christians and Jews, Hippies - they all say very similar things for home schooling.

This is the same kind of freedom that allows people to not vaccinate their children or to spend millions of dollars campaigning against Vapor Trails or Muslim-Sympathising-9/11-Commemorative-Sculptures or god only knows what other loony nonsense.

Withdrawing your child from schools because schools are lousy is valid, but feels like a sad and selfish defeat. Why is education still run by people who ignore evidence? Why is education still in the grip of politicians?
Could a single person live on 3000/year in London? Well it was a long time ago now, but I did, as did millions of others, when we were students.

Are you adjusting for inflation? Did you get £3,000 a long time ago? Or did you get what is now worth £3,000? 3k in 2000 is the same as 4.2k, in '95 it's the same as 4.8k now, in '90 it's like 5.7k now.
Not exactly. With SSL, encrypted communication goes between client and server. In case of this app, encryption is done with user's public keys, no server is involved in encrypting messages. Server role is only in signing public keys to ensure their authenticity. But that alone is bad and insecure practice.
The frustrating thing to me is that this article simply shows that a medieval peasant got more vacation time than I do - but doesn't say anything at all about why, even though it's in the title.
> Economic security and a mortgage are mutually exclusive for most people.

Oh wow no. For "most people", a mortgage represents the only means of escape from throwing all your money into a rental trap.

Having access to a mortgage represents a giant step up in economic security.
Why do people write #define empty_statement do { } while (0)?
You might get some of the good stuff, but you won't get its killer feature, robustness, without sacrificing backwards compatibility. And that's not going to happen.

Eventually we have to move on to more robust programming languages where null pointers and pointers to freed memory are not allowed.
Disclaimer: I'm not the creator and I'm not associated in any way with the project. Just found it interesting and posted here.
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What's the difference? To me, your formulation is just another somewhat passive-aggressive way of asking for a source.
the internet (and HN) can't get full

My reading buffer most certainly can.

If the s/n dips sufficiently, I'm out.

It's the Yogi Berra Restaurant Syndrome, or the Evaporative Cooling Effect:

http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
From http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/:

As with chocolate cookies, not everything that feels pleasurable is good for you. And it certainly isn't good for our hapless readers who have to read through all the angry comments your blog post inspired.

Criticizing political ideologies isn't very productive (especially when its party has never won a seat in congress), but if you're going to do it, please follow this example: http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html.

The author addresses specific issues and injects a bit of humor into his responses. He uses statistics and facts instead of anecdotes. Most importantly, he doesn't strawman or condescend. That's the sort of writing that convinces people. The submitted post will most likely just annoy any libertarians who read it.
At least you could access your account, Sparkasse didn't even allow me to log in -.-
> show me a Libertarian, and I'll show you someone with a sheltered upbringing

Very well put. I think it applies to pretty much all neo-conservatives. Conservatism is about being rich and wanting stability to remain rich. Neo-conservatism is about wanting to be rich and stay rich because you never knew any other aspiration than wealth. (Funnily enough, this applies to both people born into wealth and poverty, with the first often selling this aspiration to the second, to their distinct disadvantage.)

Similarly, Libertarians argue that everything will work out since it's all a level playing field from their perspective and everybody would have a good life if they just put effort in. They just never knew any other starting point to aspire from than their own.
"Smart people realise we're doing bad shit, so will resist it. Therefore, we can only hire unquestioning idiots."

This is why the government is now entirely run by unquestioning idiots.
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You think they have what it takes to run a "multi-billion dollar profit a quarter" company as diverse as Microsoft?

Right.
That's for communicating with your bank. If you can't trust your legal system for that, then you have much bigger problems.
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It's a convenient and recognized request for more information.

It's pretty much the equivalent of "RSVP" on an invitation -- a shorthand request that the person it's directed to take an action out of consideration.

Reading it as passive-aggressive strikes me as the attitude of someone who's looking for a social slight. In my experience, that search is rarely unsuccessful.
How I outgrew yet another label:

1. Understanding that there isn't always one noun to describe the particular mix of beliefs that work for you.

2. Understanding that a belief system isn't always the same as the dominant group that is claiming that belief system for themselves at a given point in time (say "the" libertarian party)

3. Understanding that written statements of principle are always approximations to reality. Reality always has complications and exceptions.

4. Rule: there are always exceptions. There are no exceptions to that rule.

5. Competition tends to war as rules tend to zero.

6. Be ready to change your mind when confronted with new data.

7. NEVER identify yourself with your beliefs. If you do, an attack on your beliefs become an attack on you. Then you'll never see things straight.
Imagine if your phone could heal itself?