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> If it's good enough for the NY Times, it's good enough for you and me

Speak for yourself.

I've just gotten through with about 16 years of English courses, with professors who are most certainly not in agreement with your opinion. Hell, I remember having a German professor correct a student for using "they" incorrectly.

Just because a large newspaper uses it doesn't make it any more correct. Many people say "irregardless" and I am sure I could find the usage of it in a major publication, but it doesn't make the word any less illogical.
That's more than 700km per day. So given the speed limit it means you are spending most of the week in the car. How is this fun?
It depends completely on whether you are looking for "valid" in a structural sense or a semantic sense. If a structural sense, lutusp's second approach looks very do-able. There are a lot of cases to consider and it would most likely mean pulling out an old grammar book that actually teaches these things but it could be approached systematically. It also would mean making some assumptions about verb forms, ie I would only want to have to choose the verb at random and not the form.

If "valid" in a semantic sense, I wouldn't have a real clue where to start. The structural requirements give you an upper bound and a quick initial test. Perhaps you could start with a small set of words and observed how they scale upwards?
I hadn't heard that before, can you provide any reference or source for this? I think I'll need it in future discussions :)
Point taken - it's very easy to feel like someone else's code is bad if it's hard to understand or does something in a way you think isn't the best, or even good. Maybe being nice is helpful sometimes.

On the other hand, sometimes code really is just shit. Being positive and saying "this is a good start, let's go through it and see if we can improve upon it" might be a massive waste of time if it's really shit. Sometimes holding people to high standards is necessary so the whole team doesn't get held back.
Most states have Liberal Democrat senate candidates, for those of a more libertarian bent.
Dump Eclipse. No really.

New Android studio based on JetBrains' IntelliJ is so much better it makes me wonder how I would ever endure using Eclipse for anything.

Try it. It'll take you less than 5 minutes from download to having your hello world on device, in debugging mode. It'll be the single best thing you did all day.
Building Games for HTML5, Not with HTML5
AFAICT the Espruino and Tessel are slightly different. The Espruino's focus seems to be providing an ultracompact, low-power, very simple JS-powered Arduino, which (with physical adapter) could be used with existing Arduino shields. The Tessel seems to be focused more on the interfacing-with-the-internet side of things, with built-in wifi.

I think there's plenty of room for both, and it's exciting to see continued efforts towards making it easier to bridge the gap between embedded devices and the software world!
For me, there is no 'best' or 'list' link at the top of the page.

Only if I go directly to the URLs for best or list, do those links get added to the nav bar. Normally the nav bar is just:

> Hacker News new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit
Out of curiosity, does anybody know why in the leaders list only the user "Libertatea" has no avg karma info?
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It's actually only in the top bar when you're on the best page.

As far as I'm aware, it's only 'advertised' on the Lists page, which is the first of 12 links to the bottom of the page.
I just spent $20 on MailDroid to have a good IMAP/Exchange client (to replace Gmail + stock Email).

I spent $20 on this over the free options (like K9 email) or the free ad-supported MailDroid version, because it is a high quality app and it looks very, very nice. Especially on my new Nexus 7's full HD screen.

That said, I'm pretty sure I'm not part of the majority here. Just raising a hand saying that some people will pay serious money for good stuff. And they're not all on iOS.
The system has almost always worked as intended: the Government is formed in the House, which has the monopoly on questions of supply. Because the House is single-member electorates, there has been a clear majority in every election except for 2, including this outgoing Parliament.

The Senate doesn't form the government and cannot originate supply bills, but otherwise has coequal legislative powers. It is elected on a proportional basis.

The system works well because a government can normally form quickly and govern stably, but in order to pass legislation it must give consideration to minority parties in the Senate. You get an Executive that can execute but which must nevertheless be prepared to compromise.
Lenovo announces Yoga 2 Pro with 3,200 x 1,800 screen, slimmer design (hands-on)
Dropbox + Time Machine (OS X) + Crashplan
Lists is in the lower left corner, just above the search box, under the horizontal rule.

Lists | RSS | Bookmarklet | Guidelines | FAQ | DMCA | News News | Feature Requests | Bugs | Y Combinator | Apply | Library
People seem to forget this important fact - That hashes get leaked. Without a hash corresponding to a user account it's quite hard to break in to a given account with a moderately reasonable password, even if the hash can be 'broken' in milliseconds.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_...

Which points to:

http://wlstorage.net/file/acma-secret-blacklist-18-mar-2009....
Wait... really? Because when the ubuntu phone campaign happened, I wanted to buy one, and didn't purely because I couldn't figure out a way to do it without PayPal.

Did I miss something on the page that would have let me pay without it? Oh well; too late now I guess.
Most of Paypal's competitors weren't wiped out by Paypal being good, they were wiped out because they weren't as good as handling risk and fraud as Paypal. They got wiped out by criminals.

Paypal is risk averse, which means you shouldn't use them for cases where you're taking a large amount of money up front and not delivering in the near future (i.e events, crowd-funding), or alternatively get pre-approval from Paypal.

I've no idea what the current fraud level against Stripe is, but as they become more mainstream they're going to need to employ more anti-fraud and anti-risk measures as their exposure increases.
Of course you also have about zero privacy with bitcoin (by design), but who cares about that, right?
Labor's NSW Right faction is a bit of a Sunday mass too. And they're the most powerful single bloc in the ALP.
Blackberry board hopes to sell company by November
Just the equation parts, to be used in creating worksheets and quizzes.
If it were me, I'd say if the prosecution really has enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did a crime, an initially positive bias isn't an actual problem. In fact that's how the justice system is supposed to operate (innocent until proven guilty).
I think you need to analyze the risks more specifically.

You should rate-limit login attempts on the live site. Even allowing only one login attempt per second kills any brute-forcing attack if your passwords have even mediocre complexity.

Password cracking is only really a threat is the bad guys get your database. And if they do, it's not much more difficult to crack two passwords than one.

The point of true two-factor is that the second "password" which comes from the device is never stored in your DB, so it cannot be cracked. That is not true of your approach.
robust is debatable, I suppose you mean type safe.
I would take your point forward and say if the code is hard too read then is it shit.

There is a reason that you are reading it: you are maintaining it, adding a feature or trying to fix a bug. If it is not easy to read then it makes this harder and that makes code bad and increases the chances of the editor making a mistake and breaking the system. (Or just making your day bad).
Abbott has demonstrated that he is prepared to distinguish between his private beliefs and his public policy. He has no choice: trying to introduce the Catholic wishlist would see him voted down like an obese person on reality TV.
This is one specific investor therefore I'd caution making generalizations about "investors" in general. Accents - I presume you mean "if you speak with a foreign accent" and are alluding to PG's comments about accents. I'd read PG's clarification on the context of the comment. http://paulgraham.com/accents.html TLDR; it has more to do with the inability to understand what is being said.

That said, raising capital is challenging.
Not enough comments yet.
> At 1.5 hrs/day, we will only ever need to
> charge when stopping anyway to eat or sightsee,
> never just for charging itself.

I'm all for the development of electric cars but downplaying having to stop at what's effectively a gas station in the middle of nowhere for 1.5 hours per day is pretty disingenuous.

You wouldn't get a lot of people buying a normal gasoline powered car if it took 1.5 hrs to fill it up each time, so electric cars have a lot to make up for in other features if you're using them for road trips like this, rather than just commuting where you're charging overnight.
Not only do they not die or turn into monsters, but it's also an important lesson on how to explore one's interest to occupy oneself!
I also wanted to mention the idea of including your children in your interests so they get to know you and spend time with you (and you get to do something you love!), but there was no good seguefor that.
Just like everything else.
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"The policy which was issued today was poorly worded and incorrectly indicated that the Coalition supported an “opt out” system of internet filtering for both mobile and fixed line
services. That is not our policy and never has been. "

Retrieved from their modified page at the time of writing:

http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/Coalition%202013%20Ele...

Here's their original 8 page booklet detailing the "opt out" filtering system:

http://cl.ly/2i103o1y0b2M/Coalition%202013%20Election%20Poli...

Utter bullshit.
I am normally a cynic and wouldn't put it past either of the major parties in this election but I highly doubt they ever planned for a mandatory internet filter.

The current government has tried more than once to implement a filter and it has only been because of the Greens and the LNP blocking it that it hasn't gone through. If they really wanted a filter, they could have just let it pass when Labor tried to implement it.
That's actually the policy they had when they were last in government. It had very low takeup.
Isn't that the idea of releasing policy so close to the election: not giving people time to read it properly?
Meet the ipsums
Why bother? Scala is dead with Java 8 anyway.
You'll find that it's pretty typical of _global_ politics. Say one thing, then do another once you have the power.

So typical, and so typically unpunished.
The blacklist contains one url from Wikileaks, which (judging form the URL) is yet another (non-Australian) leaked blacklist of banned sites.

I'm not defending censorship (one look at the list shows what a STUPID idea it is) but I think implying that it was used to "block Wikileaks" overstates what happened.
Well said.

It should be noted that it was under this individual's reign at Google that the notorious 41 tints of blue occurred[1], which was clearly an indicator of abject ineptitude regarding art and design.

The comment about Illustrator was cringe worthy. The idea that someone is so filled with hubris regarding a field well outside their domain has the wafts of Denning - Krugerism pluming out.

[1] http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Freedom of expression about political matters is implied. Other subjects? Nope.
I will reply in the coming days. Too much work, no time for research today. The one thing I'd like to say is that I haven't yet found the documents that would support your thesis about the human rights record of Bashar Al Assad, especially the numbers of his victims.

Also, too bad, US government doesn't seem to care about the possible humanitarian catastrophe in Syria that would ensure after strikes. At least, I haven't found any documents that support this. If you and US government are so sure that the bombing of Syria is for the better, I think that you should provide documented arguments in support of your position.
> Sure, not everybody can contribute in bitcoin.

Why would anyone WANT to contribute in Bitcoin? From a contributor point of view, Bitcoin leaves them massively vulnerable to fraud--it is almost as bad as mailing an envelope full of cash.
I totally agree, somehow our alpha macho instinct likes to come up and show everyone else how much we know better. Worst of all, this attitude is well rewarded on some circles.

The above said, sometimes code is really shit!
V6 formula!?!? Validating my decision several years ago to quit following F1. ;-)
Take a look at china. All this means is that ordinary people will have proxy education in their teenage years.
Tresorit! safer than dropbox and has a handy UI. I am currently testing their Android app which has a new UI and I even more like that one. (and I also got 50Gb as an early bird user)
Toshiba has invented a quantum cryptography network that even the NSA can’t hack
I really wanted to back this one but I cannot justify paying $99+. Instead of one of these I bought one of these

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/48651611/espruino-javasc...

and one of these

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2021474419/flutter-20-wi...
> irreversibility - once you receive Bitcoin there are no chargebacks.

Unless I receive the goods before paying, I would never buy anything with Bitcoin online. There’s no buyer or fraud protection whatsoever. I don’t understand how any legitimate merchant would be alright with that. If a merchant would only accept Bitcoin, that would come across just as sketchy as a merchant who wants me to mail him a cashier’s check – never gonna happen.
>Bitcoin has a long way to go before it's as easy to use as Paypal.

Coinbase (out of Y combinator) is getting there.
My Perfect Internet
The Australian lawmaking process is more transparent than the US. Bills cannot be amended in committee behind closed doors. All amendments must be moved by an MP, from the floor of the House or Senate.

We also have the strictest party discipline in the world, so there's very little room for back-scratching.

Finally, our Constitution bans any bill about appropriations from dealing with any other subject. So you can't tack riders onto other subjects.
> I've no idea what the current fraud level against Stripe is, but as they become more mainstream they're going to need to employ more anti-fraud and anti-risk measures as their exposure increases.

I'm one of Stripe's cofounders. For what it's worth -- we already process billions of dollars a year. (More than PayPal when it was acquired.) There'll always be more we can do on the fraud/risk side, but we're already operating at a scale that requires a decent amount of sophistication.
In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge.

I have no idea why this and other sections (https://news.ycombinator.com/lists) aren't linked from the main page in a prominent visible manner - especially /best which is great for people like me who check in every few days.
Amazon URL without all the extra stuff: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/
That is a fair point. And to be clear I'm not saying there is not shit code out there, because there is. I'm arguing against a type of culture that praises negativity rather than contributions.
how does best differ from the homepage? not sure i get it.
It overstates the case for that point in time. But it doesn't overstate that they were prepared to do it.

Remember: this is a secret list that Australians cannot legally see.
I'm not sure how that's relevant. A full Firefox install on Windows currently weighs in at 47MB. xul.dll (e.g. the UI) is 20MB of that.
XCode's requirements are pretty modest. Get a second-hand Mac Mini or something (you may want to add memory to it).
Heathkit is back and they are making kits again
You are exactly right.

My boss is one of these self-loathing software developers that constantly sees it fit to remind me that we're all privileged sissies who get to play on computers and get paid obscenely well for it.

I don't buy that. He may feel that way, but I didn't start off in software development. I worked my way into it before there was ever a coursera or any other "become a developer quick" program. I did this by working a full time job to pay bills, then coming home and spending another 8 hours a day (and entire weekends) learning and honing. It would take 2 years of these 100-hour weeks to get to a point where I could actually begin doing this work at a professional level.

So I don't buy it. I hit a lot of walls and wanted to give up many times. And I've always loved computers! It still takes a special person to do the work we do. It wasn't like that for auto manufacturing.
>Play date or playdate is an expression primarily used in the US for an arranged appointment for children to get together for a few hours to play.

This is from wikipedia. Pardon my language, but what the actual fuck. An arranged appointment for playing? I really feel sad for kids now in America.
Can you check your solutions somehow?
What Is a Permanent Employee?
I mean type safe, therefore much faster code out of the box, easier refactoring (not trivial refactoring, but changing interfaces of libraries and the like), better documentation generator, better build tool, up-to-date tools for google app engine, great Eclipse support, ....

In short: more robust
No, it's just about having something you can point to when a pesky journalist is making too many questions: "oh, it's all in the manifesto|whitepaper, please look it up". Those docs are written by unpaid interns and forgotten a minute after ballot boxes close.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

Doesn't the fact we had greens and independents win lower-house seats prove that there are other options beside the 2 major parties?

Doesn't the current minority government - along with numerous examples of senates where the balance of power wasn't held by the major parties - prove that these parties can have significant influence?

The libs will probably win the lower house easily (although I suspect the Greens will hold Melbourne and Wilkie will hold in Tasmania). But I think the senate will be interesting.
... it got read.
I used to be in student politics. There is always an overzealous dipshit who zooms off to play the hard man who makes you look like ... well ... a pack of pricks.

More. More like a pack of pricks.

However, intimidation is a serious charge. The site owner should contact the police. The police would be within their powers to obtain telco phone logs to see who made the relevant call.
That 1.5 hours represents three(3) thirty(30) minute charges. A supercharge gets 200 miles per 30 minute charge.

http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger.

This is the beginning of a new way to fuel cars and the charge time technical hurdle (30 minutes) although already small, will be reduced in future battery technologies.
In his book Super System, Doyle Brunson wrote that a computer would never be able to play elite poker because you played the man, not the cards or the game. He greatly underestimated the power of modern computing it appears.

Personally, I'd rather see resources go into a robot that can cook for me but development follows the money I suppose.
The Brighton to London trip is just over 50 minutes on the fastest currently available route, which has two stops (East Croydon and Clapham Junction). The BBC article linked in another comment [1] mentions that the train used to make this video was a specially commissioned non-stop trip, so I expect it took a bit less than 50 minutes (assuming it was going at the same speed, of course).

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23853863
I've been schooled in several systems, and done "distance learning" as well; all of it was secular, and I'm not religious. The competence of my teachers varied; I had one math teacher, in a Canadian public school, who refused to confirm if negative numbers existed. My math teachers in Canada generally kept students as far away from math, beyond a terribly slow and boring curriculum, as possible. A year I spent in the US had me more than 3 years ahead of my peers when I returned to Canada, and in the US, we were all laughably behind compared to a new classmate we had from China, or the people I later went to school with in Europe.

Teachers are generally intelligent and well-meaning. Their paper qualifications and their ability to actually teach are not as strongly correlated as one would hope, though. While on average I'd expect a qualified teacher to be better at teaching than a member of the general public, I know many members of the general public who are not eligible for jobs as K-12 teachers, but nonetheless are excellent at teaching both children and adults. Amusingly, one qualified teacher I know was given a crash primer in the subject he now teaches professionally by a friend of mine... after he was officially qualified to teach it. On the other hand, I know a teacher in Switzerland who spent several years telling his students random anecdotes about his life, rather than actually teaching the students anything whatsoever about the subject he's paid to teach - and this is a country with much stricter requirements for teachers than the US.

Public schools have requirements for their teachers for a number of reasons: covering themselves, filtering out some unqualified people quickly, etc. The qualifications are neither necessary nor sufficient for finding good teachers, sadly. In programming, qualifications tend to be poorly, and sometimes even negatively, correlated with ability and productivity; I'm not convinced the situation is massively different in K-12 education.

There are no magic bullets for education. Not everyone teaching is even vaguely capable of doing so; there are some horrifically incapable people teaching in the public school system, and also some who homeschool. The majority of teachers in either system do a more-or-less tolerable job, and some excel.
Yeah, I'm also getting an Espruino. I'm living in Germany so, I can't get the Flutter yet - I'm dying to get my hands on a pair though.
Hopefully more efficiency in battery capacity as well as in solar cells down the road will alleviate some of that with built in solar panel in hood and part of the roof as an option. I'd have to run numbers, but of top of my head says with ideal weather conditions and 1m2 clean hood panel you'd gain about extra mile or km a day which isn't all that great now.
Not really - can USA spy on credit cards issued by Chinese banks? And vice-versa? There is at least some level of privacy. But with BTC every time you make a purchase you can be linked to all your previous and future purchases.
Good points, thanks for that. I guess I have thought about the minority government a little too much when it is an anomaly.

I have no problems with the senate. I vote for minority parties (Sex Party last election and this one) because I want protection from the government when required.
After which the prime minister (president equivalent) immediately personally apologised, flamed the police minister, and they have since been good about the whole thing.
> You can shave away a LOT of form factors if you just agree to cut off development before Android 4.0.

At that point, though, the idea that Android is a larger market really starts suffering. That cuts out a third of Android users immediately.
The boards also look to be really good value as an FPGA development platform with 32-bit RAM, USB, Ethernet and HDMI.
Except everyone will lose their passphrase. Everyone.
I basically miss the Democrats. It's a pity that Stott-Despoja killed them by zagging left.