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Sorry, but this story is not credible.

Maybe someone who speaks the language can read the court documents and tell us what this one sided story is leaving out?
Why didn't you write this reply in Haskell/Node.js/Go/Rust? I did a naive implementation (since I am still kinda new to this) of your post in all those languages and here are my benchmark results:
First impression:

* No details of threat model

* No details of crypto protocols used

* No discussion of how key exchange problem is solved

* Makes misleading security claims "when you delete a sent message it will be removed from the receivers phone"

Basically falls into "don't touch with a barge pole" category of crypto software.

Crypto software isn't a category where you can make it up as you go along, it has to be designed upfront with a set of security considerations for it to have a chance of survival in the real world.
This would be the kind of comment the author hates...but isn't "If you're not paying for it, you're the product" a fallacy as well ? Paying for something is orthogonal to being a part of what's sold to to someone else. For instance newspapers/magazines cost a price but still "sell" their audience to advertisers.

And yes, I love communities nitpicking news items, because it's not as if the internet is in lack of discussion boards, and seeing different approaches on the same items is so interesting.
I would like to warn about #2 - actually I would say watching movies with English subtitles can really slow down the learning process. The brain consumes enormous amounts of energy and in our past it was critical to our survival to save as much energy as possible - that's why the brain is wired to turn off (I am simplyfying here) the parts that are not needed right now. When you watch the movie with subtitles your brain 'knows' that it is getting the information via easy reading channel and turns off or tunes down the listening channel to save energy - this is an automatic process that you cannot control.

Understanding what you are hearing, recognizing words is a very specific skill and to get better at this we need to practice this specific skill, we need to get over that annoying stage when you just don't understand what they are saying and you need to listen to it five times to finally get it - when you turn on subtitles you may practice other skills (grammar, vocabulary... skills which can be better acquired by reading books) but you basically turn off acquiring 'understanding' skill. That's one of the reasons why there are so many people who are very good at grammar and vocabulary and can easily read and write but cannot watch a movie or talk to someone because they cannot understand spoken word.
So, now we're getting to the real issue - the titles/content of the articles that get upvoted is extremely poor, not the comments.
That's pure nonsense.
The language is intentionally emotional. Sweden didn't 'abduct' a child.

If you want to believe Wikipedia [1] (since I'm not a lawyer and not even remotely sure about the specifics of the laws in question) the same thing could happen here in Germany.

I doubt that is even close to the full story here, and a site that fights for homeschooling probably wants to push its own agenda first and foremost.

This seems to be a tabloid headline, with biased/incomplete/weird content behind the link.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulpflicht_(Deutschland)#Vol...
If you scroll to the bottom of the page you can see he got them from Greg Peverill-Conti's 1,000 faces project, which is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0,
I think you're almost completely right on this one. Fingerprinting is allowed as long as it is a functional requirement of the website. What IS - to my best knowledge - unknown (or at least a gray area) is whether you can use a fingerprint created as a functional requirement for statistical purposes as an (double emphasis quote) "afterthought".
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Firefly and Serenity showing incredible depth in female characters as well as making one female lead the ultimate bad-ass of the entire universe.
Actually English has completely replaced Latin in medical circles as the Ligua Franca. Even the terminology (still based on Latin though) is English.
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As the original author of [citation needed], I quite agree. That was designed by myself to originally ensure that Wikipedians sourced their material, not as a way to win arguments!
I am not sure I agree. Many design companies and advertisement copmanies I know charge extra if their project has to involve anything to be done on a mac. eg if the client wants a mac compatible file, final cut project etc, because of the added overhead as macs apparently don't play nice with other systems.

also, they dont have any advantage over a dedicated windows machine anymore stability wise.
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Even though the pictures are under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 I do feel right using them and it seems like a lot of work to parse the data into your own website, there are server side libraries that can do this for you.
Again and again, the same point comes up: It is VERY difficult not to compare yourself to others. Once you can stop doing that, you can decide for yourself how to live on your own terms (if - and this is a big "if" - if you are fortunate enough not to have any circumstances on your plate that prevent that - disabilities, debt, bad circumstances, and so on).

On top of this challenge, if you have the support of a loving family, your chances are orders of magnitude better. Without such support - or with resistance - then things can be even more difficult.

No one said it is easy.
This submission brings the light and the heat. $XNUM years, huh, that really is something.
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A timeline here:
http://freesweden.net/domenic_timeline.html

Don't know if it's biaisd though.
The above two comments need to be added to his list.
That statement is not a fallacy. Assuming a product is made by a business that hopes to become profitable, if the users aren't paying for it then what other business reason can there be to having users at all?

Your example doesn't support the argument since it just states that if users pay for something it doesn't mean that they aren't also the product.

So it is possible to pay for something and be part of the product, to pay for something and not be a part of the product, and to not pay something and be a part of the product but not possible to not pay for something and not be a part of the product.
Most of the conclusions I find in comments on HN, are rarely conclusive. I've always struggled with comments that provide one data point (or better yet, a generalization of data points) that the user declares a conclusion from. I can't tell if I'm just being pessimistic when I detract these poorly thought out conclusions or if they are genuinely good for the discussion.
Both approaches aren't mutually exclusive. I give priority to what you and the article are saying, but once you realize that, there's no reason why it can't be complemented by a high paying job. 40 hours of work a week, if you manage to find something you (half-)like, is a minor inconvenience compared to the alternative of not being able to enjoy many of the things our modern world has to offer.
"HSLDA encourages interested members to pray and fast for the family and participate in these other forms of support" - what's this crap doing on HN ? This is an extremely one sided argument from one side in a conflict.
The fact that this idiom is documented in the official Python documentation makes me cringe, knowing that this code is not what I would call explicit.

This is one of those cases where Ruby does it better (s.each_slice(3).to_a).
So a lesson from when I was young and stupid: If you make fake data, it's often advantageous to make it obviously fake data. If, in a fit of boredom, you decide to do something clever and e.g. generate plausible names and birthdates for fake students by using government lists for the most common names and surnames for people born that year, and you e.g. hypothetically leave 6 pages of no-actual-human-involved fake data sitting on an office printer, you might hypothetically end up in a very awkward conversation with the local person in charge of regulated data breaches.
Better not move to the UK either. The "news" at the moment has a fetish for finding cases where a lack of state intervention resulted in some poor little sods death.

Of course, after they're published a few stories it's no longer "news" at which point they'll find some other statistically unlikely tragedy to flog to the ghouls.
The point about complexity is probably fair from the perspective of someone just getting started with Clojure.

Sure, the syntax itself is very simple and regular (like any Lisp). The complexity is in all the other stuff - macros, code-as-data, vars, namespaces, metadata, managed references, persistent data structures, leiningen, paredit etc.

Once you've got up the steep learning curve, I find Clojure is unbelievably productive. It's just a bit tough getting there. I think it's all solvable, but the Clojure community does need to listen and learn from constructive criticism.
> The top-rating issue is simply symptomatic of the lack of insight of many of the folks clicking the little arrows over their first morning cup of coffee.

Totally agree and it's hard to blame them. The real problem might be that people who are over-familiar with the cliche don't bother to down vote.

Reminder to all: take the time to down vote over used cliches that bother you.
I was looking at the sample image provided on the linked article for hue differentiation where for each of the three rows, the strips of colour differ by 5%. The three rows differ by brightness only. The article used this image to illustrate that "lighter blues is more distinguishable than darker blues, while darker magentas are more distinguishable than lighter ones", but to me both lighter blues and lighter magentas were more distinguishable than the darker counterparts.
Are you asking for specific speech therapy recommendations? You should specify a a city or area?

Find a person with a relevant certification or degree (audiology, speech language pathology, etc.) In California speech therapy is also licensed, I believe. It's ok to ask to see credentials, in fact most professionals will have them displayed on their walls.

Find at least three therapists with a speciality in accent reduction, unrelated to each other, so you know that the rate you are being asked to pay is in line with market rates.

Any good speech therapist will have you do speech exercises outside of the office. The office visits are about getting you aware of what you are doing wrong, and teaching you exercises and methods to be aware of it and fix it.

By exercises I mean you will be talking to yourself, if they just have you listen to a tape, that's not going to help much. It will feel odd and perhaps even be somewhat strenuous to differentiate between your types of speech.

My own experience was with a lisp when I was a child, not a foreign language speech issue.
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I do not have a corporate job, nor have I ever. The closest I have come is teaching in schools. However, I find your sentiment at odds with the experience of many I know in the corporate world. Most work long hours, but they find time for what is important to them and they find their work rewarding. The family time comes from what used to be Call of Duty or sport-watching time. When the kids grow up they get to do those things with them too. These people take care of their health, travel, and have rewarding family lives, they just have to be ruthlessly organised and priority-driven to focus on what is important to them (of which a respectable career is one aspect).

In the past I have thought the way you do and the way the original post outlines, but I concluded that I was actually a little jealous of people with more stable, better-paying jobs who were well enough organised that they could still do the things that they considered important and I was actually just looking for ways to frame the situation to my superiority. When I hung out with these people I almost wanted them to sneer and demonstrate values that "someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interest and activities is considered a flake", but they never did. I feel like most corporate folk I know totally "get" what people who haven't taken the same path as them are doing.

At the moment I live in Japan and have friends who work some insane hours. Their Facebook efficiency to set up band practice and baseball (and even now cricket!!) for the few hours they have to spare is a source of constant astonishment to me.

Right now, I'm looking at getting myself organised in that way and heading for a corporate job, not fleeing from one.
Thanks, that paints quite a different and better picture.

It seems homeschooling was legal and the parents had a very good reason to do it even if it wouldn't be (the upcoming move to IN).

I fail to understand why they wouldn't comply when the state started to demand that their son visits a 'normal' school though. They fought a dangerous battle with a state they planned to leave. I wouldn't have dared to do that, the minimum damage would've been a hefty fine, the maximum .. happened.

At least I'm far more sympathetic after reading this timeline than after that OP's link..
while I don't have access to another timeline, russia, china and (to some extent) france did win the war, but none of their language became a new lingua franca.

I'd suppose the closest thing to a nazi-controlled-germanized-europe would be the USSR (people escaping, restrictions on freedoms hindering creativity, no colonies speaking the same language, trade issues with the rest of the world) which in fifty years failed to establish
a linguistic dominance even in aligned countries.
When I learned Basic as a kid (8–9 years old I think), I just learned what the reserved words (rem, print, goto, gosub, return, if then else, etc.) did in the context of my programs: 'goto' literally meant "jump to this line" etc.

It was somewhat later that I realized that my 'goto' is actually derived from English words 'go' and 'to'.

So if goes like this:

- 8 yrs old: learn 'while' in the context of Basic

- 10 yrs old: learn 'while' in the context of English classes at school

- 14(?) yrs old: suddenly realize if you remove the space from then English "go to", it becomes the Basic 'goto', and a-ha, maybe that is not a coincidence.

I actually just right now realized what the 'wend' in the while...wend loop is made of (in the English sense). Hah.
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Completely agree with the gist of what you are saying, but exceptions are MORE than just a sum/product/extended value type: They are a non-local return. You're obviously aware of that, from the Java comment, but seem to consider that fact an implementation issue of Java, whereas most people consider this a defining attribute of exceptions.
Actually this is a real problem - sometimes it might be difficult for foreigners to recognize that some words or sayings have a certain subtext or are vulgar or somehow inappropriate. I remember some very embarrassing situations caused by this.
Can't really say it has anything to do with startup's either.
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In some cases it does. There are accents, even among English-as-a-first-language speakers that are almost unintelligible.

For example, many Americans struggle to understand the kind of English accent used by some recent immigrants from India -- immigrants who by and large speak perfect English.

Grammar might be perfect, but thick accents can be a tremendous impedance to communication.

In these cases it can be even worse since the speaker knows they're speaking correctly, but just can't make themselves understood, even in basic conversations. Accent training is the perfect and only solution.
Problem is that many of the things the modern world has to offer fall conveniently between the short pauses of sanity we have to enjoy them in that 40 hours of work a week.

And excluding work, we also need time for life as well. Things like shopping, laundry, cooking (if we do that at home) and fixing things that break. I hear plumbing does this quite often. Almost as much as code. The modern world has created an atmosphere that specifically caters to these things. Even games, if you think about it, are to be quickly done with in time for the next expansion or chapter. When was the last time you spent 6 hours working your way up to get a magic key with a picture of a goat to unlock a treasure cave... that itself holds another key to somewhere else?
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Yes, it makes me feel better, that's the only reason I do it.
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There's a lot more to the story. For example the fact that the dad abducted the boy for several days sleeping in barns and in the car in the middle of the winter, something which he was sent to jail for. Or that the boy was physically abused, had tooth decay due to health care neglect and no vaccination prior the planned trip to India.
Look, I respect and acknowledge your right to have an opinion that taxes are not theft. Would you respect the opinion of your fellow citizens, who, like me, believe taxes are theft?

Because if you do acknowledge their right to think so, then it becomes obvious, that you are also prepared to ignore such an opinion, still willing to collect taxes from them. So essentially, you're like an abusive dad saying to his daughter "oh, sweetie, you can marry anyone you want", but later demanding from her she married a young man of his choice - for her own good, of course.

I realize it's kind of a big stretch for people to see taxes as theft, but it's important to start seeing violence involved in this process. You can't just deny things by arguments such as "that's they way a civilized society works".
A great cartoon but wasn't this posted just two days ago with the exact same title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6303776
Sure, but it's the #2 bullet-point on their home page, and they don't use the word reliably, but:

> Be confident sending private information and pictures.

... be confident? That kinda implies it's reliable enough to be confident in it.
I had similar thoughts a few years ago, and prototyped such an app. It ended up reinforcing what research on the topic already says: HVPT helps, but not enough. It's semi-effective - better than nothing.

I'm now working on creating something better. In the meanwhile, getting a book with good phonetic descriptions of your target language (including lip/tongue diagrams) and recordings, and doing phonetic transcriptions is a better bet than HVPT. Being able to correctly produce the sounds goes a long way towards being able to distinguish them, though it seems to be a two-way feedback loop.
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> the function may also throw an exception if a dns lookup error occurred for example.

What's wrong with (DNS Lookup Failure, -17), as long as it is documented? why doesn't 404 NOT_FOUND merit an exception, yet a DNS lookup failure does?

(I can argue both ways, I'm just trying to point that there's no clear criterion)

> therefore can't return a valid result if they occur. Therefore it must throw an exception.

But open() in C does return a valid result on any of those billion reasons: (fd -1, errno reason). Yes, errno is returned in a global variable, but it is still a return from the open() call. Therefore, exceptions are never needed according to your logic?
They are a kind of joke candidates, they are not in the profit-making-business however.

Gabe (number 3) on the other-hand seems to be exactly the right kind of leader, he knows Microsoft and has successfully built a business from scratch -- even competing against MSFT. Clearly he is a little too outspoken, who could make Ballmer look like a quiet personality.

Microsoft should probably just aquire Steam, and trial Gabe as CEO.
I remember ruby code circa 2001, there was a lot of it with kanji in in comments, which I found fascinating :)
Yup, seams like only the greater of minds and personalities will acknowledge or even accept inputs from others and ADD to it. The default seams to be distortion along the simple and absolute black & white spectrum and then stating the opposite to be (much more/really) true.

While in certain "communities" this maybe is driven by the profession it self (oh, CS and all its true/false 0/1 domains ;), very seldom "cooperative discussion" is presented as something beneficial... just check most newspaper and tv reports... we get controversy presented as the way to go while the world is clearly much more complex as to be grasped in simple black/white true/false terms.

For single humans tending to such patterns in thinking certain medical conditions are associated with... in our societies looks like we embrace it much more thoughtlessly. All has to be a controversy (Parties, Companies, People)
The golden ratio method looks neat; but I think it can be forked into two algorithms. In the site version, they know ahead of time how many colors are needed. If you need n colors, you could use the multiplicative inverse mod n to pick angles along the color wheel. This results in every color being unique and as far away as the other colors as possible.

In the case you don't know how many colors you will need at the time of first picking you can use the golden ratio method to pick colors.
Unfortunately, not everyone can down vote, and the fastest route to getting enough points to do so is to make the comments we are complaining about to gather the upvotes.
English is the Lingua Franca, but the terminology is (last I checked) still heavily Latin. Anterior this, Rostral that...a this-ectomy or a that-otomy...even "heart attack" is properly a Cardiac Infarct, from the Latin "infarctus": stuffed into.

I realize that the days of requiring Latin as part of a medical education are behind us (though not that far behind us), but Latin's footprints are all over the practice of medicine. I think the reason this isn't more obvious is that, in medicine, "Latin" is mostly interchangeable with "jargon" or "terminology" -- it's just "something you learn".

Someone else asked about a programming language like Ruby, which was developed in Japan and whose early users were all Japanese, why does it still use "def", "if", "for", etc. As an English speaker one is tempted to ask, "Why do the Japanese use English", but I would wager that the Japanese would respond, "What English? This is just programming terminology."
Yes, seriously improving your accent as an adult is possible. See http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/ProcLP98.html for instance.
For most programmers, the C notation is probably easier to read / understand than the English gibberish derived from it with this tool
I see that. I don't find it overly common. And if someone's disagreeing with either an inconsequential point or misconception of what I've written, I'll point it out.

I find that productive discussions do grow out of conversations with people who can note both what they agree with and what they don't. I've actually learned quite a bit from this.
Not just Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education
This makes no sense. And one could argue that they both lead big projects. But that doesn't even matter. RMS would not even remotely want to do this job. I doubt Linus Torvalds would like it either.
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