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Spambot writes love to use comments that contain nothing but a fully content-free phrase like "Great read!". These comments can be real feedback if written sincerely by an actual human, but their content gives you no clue whether they are. I've ended up thinking of most comments that could be posted verbatim for just about any story as mindless robot noise.
I don't mind if really smart people decide to spend their time building cute chat apps and games. I think that, if a virtual sticker makes someone smile, it's earned its 170 yen.

For me, it's the smart people that are building surveillance systems and killer drones that are wasting their lives.
> But not even sure where these people would start, [..]

Fasting?
There are so many misconceptions in this thread. It's really not that hard folks.

Would you like to be in good shape and live a long, healthy life?

Lift/move heavy things around 2 - 3 times per week, exercise the muscle that is your heart, and eat a balanced diet composed of veggies, protein, and non-processed carbs.

Seriously, that's it.
Or perhaps it was an attempt to destroy the idea that individual freedom and democratic accountability present an attractive alternative to an Islamic theocracy? Certainly, you can see how the very idea of personal freedom is an affront to an ideology based on submission to God and to religious authority.

What better way to discredit freedom than to turn it into an illusion?
> Big chunks of the web operate on the implicit tradeoff that you give information about yourself to drive advertisements in return for free content/functionality.

Stress on the word "implicit tradeoff". The first step is to make the "implicit tradeoff" very explicit in a manner that the consumer understands the repercussions of using the web service. Second, is when the users start worrying about the anonymity aspect particularly when your "presence" has been used for actions other than the explicit (or implicit) specified intent.
>Did you bother to even consider that you had written ambiguously?

All speech is ambiguous. You're expected as an adult to try to understand other people. You failed to understand me, and looking back at my post it ought to be obvious that you didn't read it carefully at all. The connection with the preceding sentence (a given in any paragraph you dunderhead) does not amount to "everyone does NG+ on their second play through". Nowhere is this written or implied. It's simply pure lazy reading on your part, eager as you are to take issue with what I said. And if you're going to come back with me with this sort of bullshit, maybe you should have some kind of real issue with what you now realise I actually said. But no, we get...

>I mean seriously, your criticisms of the game are just generic whines because you've encountered a hard one.

I've played through both games 3 times each. I didn't find them overly hard. Dark Souls is harder, and some bits were tough. I like that. And alternating bosses is exactly how I dealt with the harder bosses. None of this conflicts with my criticisms at all. Do you have some kind of argument to make? Or are you just upset that in your rush to piss on my post you grossly misinterpreted it? The point stands: the first play through is largely about bumbling around wasting your time. It is disorganized. It lacks clues. Do you have an answer to this, the thing I actually said? It seems it's very hard for you to change your P.O.V. to a superior one, one that can actually be defended with an argument, rather than garbage attacks like accusing me of "whining" because the game is "too hard". In fact, I don't think it's all that hard at all! Which is why in this very thread I spoke about how easy it is to beat the game with vitality builds, which is what I did on my first play through. The only "whining" here is that you didn't read my post, were butthurt by my retort, and without responding with an argument - one that contradicts something I actually said.
A very well-thought and written article. LinkedIn is like a corporate party, where everyone is there, connected but there is no party indeed, just a crowd of faces hanging around. In that way it becomes just another resume service with some job board features through ads. They are trying hard to bring interactivity by small inventions like endorsements, recommendations and also sometimes mirroring similar interactions from Twitter, Facebook to LinkedIn. At the end of the day they are still selling premium membership to jobseekers, (ability to get) connections with inmails and services for headhunters and recruiters to digg into the pile of resumes.

I believe LinkedIn can achieve much more than that by creating an application store similar to Google's and Apple's. where 3rd party apps can be listed, featured and installed and billed in a recurring or per-request basis.

Through a LinkedIn app store, 3rd parties can bring a lot of innovative functionality to LinkedIn.
> If college stops becoming the path to getting high paying, high status jobs, it will not be worth the cost

Oh, definitely. The cost is a huge problem. I think elite universities realise this - financial aid is, at universities that can afford it, at record high levels. If you're going to MIT, the Ivy Leagues, etc you're probably not going to be breaking the bank to pay your fees (...and if you are, it's because you were rich enough to start with).

But for the majority of people who want to go to college and don't have access to generous financial aid then at some point the investment clearly outweighs the benefits. So like you say, it seems almost certain any impact is going to be felt at the bottom of the chain, not the top.
I'm surely getting old, but I believe online editing of text documents is insane. I would forget about writing anything slightly more important than a pie recipe with this.
Working long hours doesn't make you sedentary. Use standing desk, if nothing else.
I use https://www.writelatex.com/ where I have a 17 pages (pdf) of math exercices, and I don't know how they deal with it, but apparently they manage to make incremental "recompilation process", because when I make an online modification on the Latex code, the modification appears almost anstantaneously on the preview pdf aside the code !
That said, 256-bit isn't really that much of an improvement for AES - its favored since that's the US standard for Top Secret classification, but in practice any attack which brings down AES-128 will almost certainly get AES-256 as well. I've switched most of my SSH servers over to default to 128-bit AES ciphers since the difference in difficulty seems small enough that it won't matter if someone actually tries targeting it and can succeed.
What about Google Apps, which host domains that the user doesn't know belongs to google? Google can basically spy on anybody. Sort all emails to and from any email address and probably get a ton of stuff.

Then again, I suppose theoretically that's true of any large email provider. It just seems more egregious from Google since they are reading 3rd party emails to deliver ads...
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I don't want the CIA to have this data anymore than I wanted the stasi to have it.

Incidentally, I'm in there (for several reasons).
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This is one of the things the EU is really good at: making people-centric decisions, instead of corporation-helping choices.
This roaming-charges change has actually been a long time coming, with forced decreases in tariffs for a while now, so it shouldn't surprise anyone. I just wish some similar agreement can be reached (in time) with countries outside the EU.
What kind of taliban society do we live in if it's normal for developed educated countries to keep rising age of consent like that? What's next, bringing to Europe American insanity where someone is allowed to own guns, drive cars, but not no make love? Or should we even allow sex before marriage?

Only a century ago human body was perfectly capable of having sex and reproducing around the age of 14, and it was a norm. What happened with human race since then? Did we somehow degenerated that we are not as capable as before, or it's that we now allow our governments too much in the name of "protection", "freedom" and "safety"? Do we want to live in a world when one power should be powerful enough to project its own moral norms to all the others? And who is the one to decide what is "right" and what is "wrong".

Pleas, just stop treating young boys and girls as immature idiots, and empower them with the trust. You might be surprised how capable and responsible they could grow up.
core.typed author here.

It might be easy to consider Schema as "competitor" to core.typed. In fact, it's the opposite: once they play nicely together they will form a formidable bug-fighting, finely-documenting team. :)

core.typed has accurate compile time checking, and Schema gives an expressive contracts interface for runtime checking.

Once they understand each other, you can start pushing and pulling between static and dynamic checking by using both libraries to their strengths.

Currently, core.typed requires all vars have top level annotations. This is partly because there is no way to recover type information once inside a function body. However, if we have an entire namespace using Schema liberally, we can use schemas to recover information!

This means we can lean on schemas for most annotations, and rely on core.typed to catch arity mismatches, bad arguments to clojure.core functions, potential null-pointer exceptions and many more nasties at compile time.

Then you might start adding static annotations or removing schemas, depending on the kind of code your dealing with. You might do some "static" debugging to ask whether a schema is needed to prevent a type error. core.typed would also let you know when your contracts are insufficient to rule out type errors. Really, you're free to use both tools as you'd like.

Schema looks very nice, thanks for open sourcing it Prismatic folks!
If the buyer signed a contract agreeing to it, sure
About time. I'm waiting for this for a while. I travel a lot in EU and it's very annoying going around with a bag of sims in my pocket. Kroes does some nice things; hopefully it'll go through.
> The US has, by longstanding tradition, had a more expansive attitude towards free speech than Europe...Consider laws against Holocaust denial or displaying Nazi symbols in continental Europe that would be unconstitutional in the US. In Germany you can be arrested for displaying a swastika.

These laws were included in the German constitution following the "denazification" of Germany by the USA, where Nazi symbols were banned and literature burned.

The laws against Holocaust denial and Nazi symbols were pretty much forced by the USA. It's extremely ironic how often they're mentioned as an illustration of the USA's devotion to free speech.
Nobody should be insulted to hear that they're not special and that their political opinion doesn't count any more than those of middle aged women in Des Moines. That's a beautiful thing. That's democracy.

Note that I generally only point out that HN-ers have minority views in response to comments along the lines of "the USG doesn't represent the people" or "the US is not a democracy" or similar hyperbole.

Finally, understanding your insignificance is part of the solution. Politics is about building coalitions. Echo chamber nerd rage will have zero impact on the status quo. Reaching out to groups with votes might.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/
Maybe you don't have to today, but you should be prepared that you might in the future as you get older and your metabolism changes. So it's a good idea to at least establish a routine of weighing and exercising when you're young.
Of course they must, in at least some sense. They've got to be processed by various programs to store them in the right place. We also expect them to be scanned and filtered for spam and viruses, which require them being processed.

The devil is on the details, as usual. If Google scans them with the intention of selling ads then they probably keep a dossier of your preferences or the type of emails you receive/d based on keywords. On a more personal level they could know that you have AIDS, are pregnant, going through marital problems...

Also NSA, DEA, FBI, IRS, The ObamaCare Enforcement Squad the local Sherif and who knows what will love to have a historical view of your emails, even after your emails have been deleted and forgotten. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/09/dea-pays-t-a... . Do you trust what Google tells you about the process? If it's there it's ready to be accessed, leaked, stolen or taken with an administrative subpoena.

But yeah, if they tell you upfront and don't violate any laws, I guess it's OK. Of course people and competitors reserve the right to point it out and criticize it.
Under the new laws sex education will be removed from the curriculum ..

WTF?
New survey suggests that people like good things when they don't have to consider the trade offs.
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"Funny" ?
The OpenSSL snafu showed us all that _code commenting_ is a really good idea.
The Story of the GIF image format
Perhaps use drum set sounds?
You'd think that with the current state of the economy they would see how useful it is to teach kids how to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
This could have the potential to become quite disruptive. If there are no roaming charges, I will be free to select any operator from any EU country and am not stuck with the ones where I reside. This will increase competition, and lower prices (or service levels will increase).
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I don't think a programming bootcamp can ever be comparable to a Computer Science degree.

I very recently graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science here in the UK. Course length was three years and i'd say only the first year was hands on coding most of the time to get everyone up to speed. The two years that followed were all theoretical courses on fields in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing, Computational Vision, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning etc.). Of course there was a coding requirement for each module but it was a lot more of a theory and research oriented approach. I feel i've gotten the most worth from my degree from this theory side of things. The real worth from a computer science degree is having access to cutting edge researchers and lecturers and having them teach you their interests and generating discussions.

What these bootcamps look like are just the basics where they teach you how to create a basic REST app in <insert hot language here>. Sure it'll get you a job at a place where REST developers are necessary but it won't prepare you for jobs beyond that whereas a proper computer science degree would. A computer science degree has a very large scope of topics covered beyond just programming.
I created MagicScroll.

BeeLine doesn't detect line breaks.

Instead it puts a span around every character and sets its color manually.

Anyway the individual spans cause issues for MagicScroll but it should be relatively easy to retrofit MagicScroll to add the beeline gradient to each line.
Well LADEE Dah, Nasa.
Good article, couldn't agree more. Its about time someone spoke up about the extreme negativity that has become coding culture. I've worked in companies with very negative developer culture and more positive developer culture and found the latter to produce far superior software (on time, in budget, less bugs etc.).
And yet we are perfectly willing to accept the deaths of thousands of people in 2014 in exchange for keeping our current speed limits.

Americans are profoundly unable to judge any question that contains the word "terrorism" rationally.
I'm just showing why realtors aren't as greedy as you think. The reason they get away with charging that much is because of the likelihood of being royally screwed when one buys a house.
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I hope this is the tip of the iceberg of better things to come.

One of the most disruptive ideas the EU is working on (among alternatives) is detaching the network from the operators. This can considerably reduce network capex, homogenise network technology and allow for a real single EU telecom space.

By having operators become clients of a single network users will benefit from increase pan-EU competition, with more competitive and transparent rates.

This has been partly done at national levels in similar sectors, specially in the gas and electricity sectors (see National Grid in the UK, Snam Rete Gas & Terna in Italy, etc.). Gas and electricity networks are private but regulated, and third parties have access rights to the network to retail gas & electricity. In this telecom case, operators don't have commodity risk, which makes third-party access to the network infinitely easier.

Fingers crossed.
It wasn't my intention to conflate them, just to say that it's meaningless to claim that it's a simple problem caused by a lack of willpower, given the current epidemic that we have.
Long overdue, especially for people living in the smaller EU countries, where driving ~3 hours in any direction will render your smartphone useless (or very expensive).
Large carriers, which are complaining the loudest, shouldn't have an issue with this, since they are present in virtually all EU member states.
The Effect of Money on Trust
I swear by StackEdit one, which is an online editor for markdown supporting LaTex math expressions:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackedit/iiooodel...
An open source story :)
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Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
> Her proposals have faced fierce opposition from the largest networks, including Vodafone, Orange and Telefónica, which say the end of roaming within Europe could cost them €7bn (£5.9bn).

Delicious tears.

Though I object to the use of the word "cost", it will remove unmerited earnings but will not add costs to their balance sheet: notice how the operators whining the most are the pan-european ones? That's because they can currently charge roaming fees for operations within their network, fleecing their own users.
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The King James Bible is not a that close translation of the original texts. It contains many translation errors and additions by later scribes not present in older texts. Generally more recent translations of the Bible are way more accurate, due to better access and more study of sources today and due to better understanding of ancient Greek and Hebrew.

A point of view on King Jame Bible: https://bible.org/article/why-i-do-not-think-king-james-bibl...
For-pay over-the-air broadcasts are also anonymous as your TV isn't going to be phoning home.
Of course they have an issue, because they're present in virtually all of the EU it's completely free money for them right now.
"Only a century ago human body was perfectly capable of having sex and reproducing around the age of 14, and it was a norm. What happened with human race since then?"

We've evolved as a society. It's the same reason women and minorities can vote.

"Pleas, just stop treating young boys and girls as immature idiots, and empower them with the trust. You might be surprised how capable and responsible they could grow up."

To be honest, this creeped me out (unless you are a ~14 years old). What would we possibly gain, as a society, by lowering the age of consent?
My experience is that LaTex is too hard/strange for most people (even electrical engineers, so its not about IQ...), and there isn't a better alternative to MS Word for writing big product manuals.

(Also, while having some experience with the system, I do notice that I have a hard time achieving flow while writing LaTex. There are hundreds of WTFs).
You would think that being most functions being pure, that these types of docsctrings would be more common (or standard, even).
When I said sugar, I actually meant either fructose or sucrose (table sugar). Carbohydrates are technically referred to as sugars, however when speaking about fructose or sucrose, these are simple sugars.

The difference between these simple sugars and more complex carbohydrates is that (1) simple sugars are burnt really, really fast by our body, giving us an immediate fuel boost and (2) our body ends up generating insulin in excess.

High-fructose corn syrup in particular has been massively used by the food industry to give taste to otherwise tasteless foods. It's particularly aggravating since sugar has been used in giving taste to low-fat diet products.

We get fat from sugar consumption, because it raises the insulin levels in our blood. Insulin is still a poorly understood hormone, however it has a role in removing the excess glucose from our blood (high levels are toxic) and it is known to stop the use of fat as an energy source (such that our body can consume the sugars first - isn't evolution amazing?). As we consume more sugar, we gain insulin resistance (e.g. the cells stop responding to insulin effectively), leading to hyperglycemia, after which the pancreas starts secreting more and more insulin, leading to hyperinsulinemia. And when you've got excess insulin in your blood, the body doesn't use fats anymore for fuel, ending up being stored permanently in the fat tissue.

Uncontrolled (or due to genetic disorders) this can lead to Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes was commonly attributed to genetic disorders or psychological disorders (stress), however the idea that obesity can lead to diabetes (and not the other way around) is also starting to gain traction. All people suffering from Type 2 Diabetes are predisposed to being obese, if they aren't already - actually I know people with type 2 diabetes and none of them are slim. Taken to extremes, somebody with Type 2 Diabetes could very well die of hunger, while still being fat.

WARNING - by consuming artificial sweeteners, you're not really solving the problem, because the problem is insulin secretion by the pancreas, which is being triggered as a reflex ever since the sugar hits your taste buds. It's slightly better, but the best thing would be to cut sugar entirely from your diet and only resort to foods that are naturally sweet, like fruits or milk for your daily/weekly intake. Diet Coke is a bad joke.

And the biggest problem we have, is that we got addicted to sugar. An acquaintance of mine working for a cigarette factory was explaining to me that cigarettes are enriched with a little sugar, because they found that sugar is even better for addiction than nicotine.

On the other hand, in regards to carbohydrates in general, plants and fruits have been in our diet ever since forever. Not consuming plants and fruits would be a thing as stupid as replacing fats with sugar.
The past 50 years have given rise to cheap, addictive, and unhealthy pre-made food. That pairs nicely with our more rapid pace of life. Even if our collective willpower has not changed, the environment under which we must maintain our strong will is more hostile.
The reason why it is relatively low is because gipsies often marry very young, so the purpose was to avoid discrimination against gipsies. IMO the old law hasn't really been a problem, and the new law should pose a problem to gipsy customs since it has clause where it allows sex if the partner is of similar age.