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The Adult industry is just as legitimate as any industry, from the point of view of a business.

What business was Titstare running again?

There is a world of difference between a legitimate adult service that uses consenting adults and an app allowing you to take sexually offensive photos of strangers.

In any case, just because the adult industry is a legitimate business does not mean it is appropriate for all contexts and all ages, does it?
The release of toxic nerve agents into a civillian population, with casualties approximating the order of magnitude of 9/11, seems to distinguish the timing of the last week in August (in syria at least). It seems to be pre-occupying the POTUS and the G20, if that is any consolation to you. It does also seem that the view from within the US, at least anecdottally, boders on middle east ennui, and that this is just another datapoint of babykillers doing there thing.
Yeah -- it's a side project I built and deployed internally that's gotten usage in a variety of scenarios (Git tools, deployment processes, etc.). There's some more info on our blog at http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2013/09/09/restfulgit-an-open-sour....
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Be carefull with the rage. See my comment. Basically, we don't know the whole story. All we know was she was bullied, she got A, the teacher didn't notice, and the mother didn't talk to the teacher and here we are reading her post publicly. Well, she got A. That's all we know. Did she behave differently in her clasroom after the incident? Say, shown more aggressive behavior or come to class with a sad face? No. The article did not say that. Can we see it is possible that the daughter carried a fake smile to class and because her performance fooled the teacher? Don't jump to the table without facts from both sides.
> ... MySQL ...
> why the hell do people even presume utf8 is max 3 bytes?

I think you answered your own question before you even asked.
Descent is undergoing a renaissance.

You can buy the original games from gog.com and then download the updated clients for D1/D2 from http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ or find the patches for D3 via the links at http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4953 . There's a game tracker at http://www.descent-servers.net/ and built-in trackers in D1 and D2.

Some groups that are still active include http://descentrangers.com/Home/Index (primarily D2 and D1 team play), http://rbb.ripteam.com/ (D3 teams), and http://descentchampions.org/ (a 1v1 ladder for mostly D1).

You can find other Descent pilots on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/descentpilots/ , https://www.facebook.com/groups/kalikahn/ , and https://www.facebook.com/groups/583400181716926/ .

Disclosure: I am one of the founders/administrators of the Descent Champions Ladder.
The mother is not paying this school to give her child a lesson in how to deal with bullying. She is paying to allow her daughter to learn programming.

The school has failed because the daughter no longer wishes to put up with the bullying that comes with learning programming (at this particular school).

Seems like a failing of the school that should be addressed.
I'm reminded of those 60's futuristic reels of what the 80's would be like.

Slight tangent:

"The 1950's was the last time in our history people had any taste in clothing" - Patton Oswalt.

In an ideal world, we'll all dress in 50's - early 60's fashion. Computers won't look, sound or even interact with us like computers I.E. they should be invisible and only have their presence known when we have a guest at the door or an appointment. For this, they should remind us with the soothing voice of HAL9000.

Facebook shouldn't exist and news came in the daily papers made of e-ink. My chair would still be made of wood. In fact, "Things" would mostly be made of wood (new-growth renewable) and maybe a bit of steel for extra support. Concrete would also look like timbers.

At the start of the day, HAL will wake you out of your bed in your 16" x 20" rustic cabin in the middle of a forest and start the coffee machine with a carefully measured Arabica with a water temp at exactly 109C all powered by solar + wind. You put on your bedroom slippers made of recycled materials and head to pick up the paper (same one as yesterday, but now with today's news) and it will actually contain bloody NEWS, not some random malarkey dipped in mediocrity. You sip your coffee with your e-ink paper as you watch snow fall outside (it's September, but the windows will perfectly display the outside in winter, because.... well, just because).

... OK, I'm done.

Edit: I initially wrote August. Forgot, it's already September.
There are two topics here, and the more important one is getting neglected.

Almost by definition of being on this website, all of us are well advanced of our pre-college computer science teachers. My first was actually a chemistry teacher. My second was biology. One had me doing tech support in junior high. It wasn't until the AP class that I found one who could teach me. But teachers using outdated technology isn't the issue.

The real issue of the article (and complaining about Visual Basic detracts from it) is a teacher who sets up an environment that tolerates harassment and bullying. It doesn't matter the discipline, the teacher failed all the students. The teacher failed the girl who dropped out of programming, and the teacher failed the bullies, by not pointing out that this behavior is wrong.
US Davis paid a little over $600k to the 21 students and fired John Pike. According to SFGate the students will receive about $30k each and a written apology from the chancellor. The ACLU will get 250k for representing the students. That sounds like a reasonable outcome to me.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Davis-pepper-spraye...
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The canonical test, then, is [the system testing itself](http://codyromano.com/buzzgrade/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe...)
I thought that was the original point that was missed too. Don't do it because the provider is telling you not to.

At least in this cited case, it was a throwaway project that won't be around, but folks who copy the code may be in for a shock.
Khan got famous for explaining concepts really well. There were plenty of online stuff covering it already. He just did a superior product.

Same with the app. It needs to be excellent, something Steve Jobs would be proud of, and it will make dent in the universe.

This is big, heady, stuff, and we'll kill the ed business with it. I like nothing better than to see government jobs disappear.
Passive aggressive preaching. If she REALLY wants to change things, offer to assist the computer department with digging up funding for a C based curriculum. It costs a lot of money for public schools to shift curriculum's.
I don't really see any reason why Visual Studio 2010 shouldn't support .NET framework 4.5.1

Hmmm?
The basics are not always interesting, especially when you 'get them'. But its through this repetition you build upon the knowledge. Eventually every fancy thing falls back to the basics.

Think about Chemistry; the instructor can show all these cool reactions but you eventually have to sit down and mindlessly run through on paper the chemical reaction.

Now think programming-wise; I can show you wireless communication between two Arduinos and some XBee radios, but eventually you have to explain how variables are stored in memory, or how the communication is made, or some other basic.

Intro classes can be boring because there doesn't seem to be an endpoint, but that's why everyone encourages open source communities, they offer that real life feel to everything you learn.
It's sad that someone would actually have the nerve to present such an idea. Coming forth and apologizing is a step, but they have to do much more than that to repair their image. I just hope this incident doesn't come back to haunt them in the future (which I fear it might) when they are pitching legitimate ideas to potential investors/co-founders/etc.
Has Apple lost its mojo?
Your colorful indignation is misplaced. I imply nothing about anyone's stand on the issue of mass surveillance - didn't even address the matter.

You should instead have inferred my disapproval of UCD cheerleading.

Nevertheless I regret mentioning Rogaway. Upon re-reading his statement I see he footnotes his affiliation with UCD but makes no claim to represent.
Those cards generate lots of fees. How can the CC have confidence in the credit report when they issue cards to people with virtually no credit. They are wildcatting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcatter
The only way to scale it seems is for cities to go extremely vertical. Then if there were attractive choices for DIY housing that meets building code

The alternatives include taking on a longer commute or being farther from the action.
I agree, the better thing is to be selective. Dump the TV, and control the other devices. Sign me up for the most modern MRI that my health plan (which I hope doesn't have a tape drive for my records) will pay for.
Because technology in itself is not good or evil. Technology is a tool to be used if you think it brings something of value to you. If you think your kid is spending too much time on the iPad or on the PS3 and that he should spend more time outside, address this point.

As another commenter pointed out [1], this is more a case of brainless dogma than anything else. The fact that the father is having a hard time finding a job because job applications have to be done online is a nice example of that.

Western culture (I can only speak for this one) too often goes to the extremes to address subtle points, and we end up with movements like "no technology in the house whatsoever" or "protein only diet". Sudden changes sound good on paper ("from now on, I'm going to work out 5 hours a day every day!"), but pervasive progress more often comes from changes in small every day actions and habits.

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357382
I agree with you that governments can be very suboptimal, but that doesn't diminish the existence or usefulness research as a public good. Some research can not be readily commercialised, but nevertheless form basic building blocks for other innovation, in such cases government funding is crucial.
You probably didn't go to public school(/end ad hominem). The teacher are so dense that you need rules like that so the parents have something to point to when their kids come home and tell them they are being harassed.
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Thanks for the reply. Good to know.
Thank you for this followup. I'd written the Chancellor's office, but never received a reply.
Bubbles happen in many more things than just housing. It just happened to hit way more people than any of the previous bubbles.

I don't know much about the market conditions outside of SoCal, but here the housing seems to have recovered to 2005-2006 levels. It doesn't look like it has much fuel to go up for a long time, but those who bought 2009-2012 are definitely comfortably in the black. Some could be up as much as 50-60% from especially distressed properties. Doesn't sound bad to me...

Factor in ridiculously cheap borrowing costs (even a couple months ago, there were 30 yr. mortgages for around 4%), and you have pretty decent investment opportunities.

In an unbalanced market, one can always find ways to realize short-term gain. Trick is to not get suckered in and overplay the hand.
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Under your description, people who agreed with Newton or Leibniz would be called "disciples" until the work has "passed into accepted truth," at which point they would not be. I don't think that's right.

I don't think it's relevant that Darwin didn't publish until someone else agreed with him. I think it's a minor detail, and it's certainly irrelevant to whether or not something is true.

In summary, I think the distinction you're making is a false one.

It's certainly possible for a philosopher to develop a system that is faith-based, but that is not the case here.

> And very little disagreement with Rand is tolerated--certainly no disagreement with what she clearly incorporated into her philosophical system itself.

There are lots of people who disagree with Rand. It's not a religion. You can't be banished. There is no enforcement. So to say that little disagreement is "tolerated" is painting an incorrect picture.

> wholesale acceptance of another person's thoughts

That is a correct characterization of some people, but not everyone who agrees with Ayn Rand. Presumably, some people who agree with her acutally agree with her, rather than just "accepting" her thoughts. I would say that about myself.

> And it doesn't bother me one bit that some disciples of Rand bristle at that word, because the word fits.

If you think the word fits, I don't blame you for using it, but you're incorrect to think that it fits. It's bad to insult people based on _your_ own mistake.
Having an Apple ][ for a year would probably be far more educational than an ipad.
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Like the mermaid from Splash! I always assumed learning by watching tv/movies was useless but maybe I'll give it a shot.
If you'd like to jot down some of the things in Eclipse that you wish were in VS, I'd love to hear it.

Email's in my profile.
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I'd tend to agree with you. But the problem of teaching it still remains. While it'd be great for dedicated teachers at each school to create a flexible, Javascript-based curriculum built around online courses and projects, I think the reality is that very few would have the time, energy, or motivation to do so. So far as I know, there don't exist very many Javascript textbooks aimed at the high school, middle school, and (hopefully) elementary school levels. Without that kind of traditional material, it's difficult for even passionate teachers to get classes approved by administrators.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why 16-year-old girls leave programming. Remember, guys ganging up on you and telling them to make them a sandwich is just funny! You're so thin-skinned, ladies! thought police!

http://hoydenabouttown.com/20110218.9512/sexist-joke-bingo/

...almost got bingo... good work, cookiecaper.
Readability is a loaded term here. Code readability may or may not be the same as the readability of prose. Readability based on a font in one programming language may not be the same as in another programming language. I would question any assumptions otherwise, without sufficient reasoning to back them up.
Nope :) You might have some ideas about how the brain might work from bullshitters, like that 'false memory specialist' who gave interview to slate.

And you actually might learn some real stuff from people like these guys from UC Berkeley, who can recover video sequences by identifying an ML model with the visual cortex an then proceeding further and recovering unseen video sequences from fMRI of V4 area of neocortex.

... Now I only wish I could find a forum where a link to a research publication like this:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031698 [Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies]

Would not have an order of magnitude less interest than a link to a slate article like this:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349590 [
How Can You Tell a False Memory From a True One?]
Why aren't you allowed to recapture grey water? That seems crazy. I guess rain makes a little sense since the water is supposed to flow to New Mexico and Texas.
Haha. Thanks for your feedback. I think I will remove the word "grow" unless I can find a way to determine and judge the context in which it's used.
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My dad worked his way though state schools (SUNY) for undergraduate and law school from 1968 - 1975.

A few things about your calculations. First back then, unlike now, no college degree didn't mean automatic minimum wage job. Second, he worked while in school, not just over the summer. Third small scholarships back then actually made a difference. Today if you get the national merit scholarship for doing well on the PSATs, it's meaningless at $2000. Back then he got a $500 a year regents scholarship and it really helped.
It is amazing the number of comments that talk about the problems of defaulting on loans and then place the blame in all sorts of places other than the people defaulting on loans. Unless you were forced at gun point to sign loan papers (or other scandalous things transpired), there isn't a lot that can convince me you are not solely responsible for your loan. I don't care if it is for an education, a house, a car or a new pair of sneakers... if you accepted money with the condition that you would pay it back, you are responsible for paying it back or suffer the consequences of not paying it back. In some cases, the consequences of not paying it back might be better than what would happen if you did pay it back (like starving to death because you can't afford to eat. or freezing to death because you can't pay for a place to live). I'm not saying that people don't find themselves in financial hard times and some times only have really horrible options to choose from. But some times I feel like people start out with default as an actual option in their minds. Like it is no big thing... just Plan B. It very much is a big thing and should be your Plan Z!
A school with "no violence or rape" wouldn't be just nothing wrong, it would be extraordinary. Even elite schools in developed and rich countries are filled with bullying: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/swedish-school-... Maybe you really ought to think about which school you went into in which neighborhood, which social clique you were a part of and if you still think no bullying happened, maybe it's time to think back on school and reevaluate some of your actions (hint: pranks and teasing might not be seen as that after all).
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I definitely see why he chose Visual Basic - you get to drag and drop windows and little buttons around and can take periodic breaks in btw churning out code to play with UI.
That's why they tend to have to learn the hard way, with consistent negative enforcement. Positive reinforcement is nice, but it's not always an option.
About electronics and low-level software, probably so. About nearly any other topic, almost surely not.
>the takeaway is that high schoolers are dicks. //

Sure. But not exclusively [which I know you weren't claiming].

I had some pretty degrading and misandrist remarks made about me in situations with lots of women in; where I've been the only man (mothers, women of an age to marry and more mature women too).

I think these things are a lot about group dynamics.
Happens every day.
Yes, this is the kind of feedback we're looking for with regard to another comment here. This is why we haven't committed to a language for the server-side reference impl yet, because we're not sure what would be useful. (Our prototype is java, fwiw.)
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http://phdtree.org/, a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide. No buzzwords.
I bet the recent Developer Site outage had a business impact for Apple. Might be impossible to measure though.
I just checked myself and the identifying info for me was by a huge margin fonts & plugins. User Agent will become far less relevant if Epic gets more adoption and keeps a lock-step updating pattern. Perhaps as use of web fonts becomes more common perhaps it will become more feasible to send just a static list that's the same for all Epic users[1]. I suspect there's a potential cache-enumeration issue that would help tag browsers there, but I'm not sure.

As for plugins, that's a bit more difficult - I wouldn't mind an option to ask if I wanted to let a site enumerate plugins, but you start getting into header games & pointless reloads there if you're not careful.

[1] I force my own fonts for everything, so no UX issues for me. No idea how much of an issue it is for other folks.
Are optional Windows updates necessary?
One, if the teacher is that dense, then the key problem isn't the rules, is it?

Two, yeah, I went to public school. I've seen all sorts of well meaning "policy announcements" that hack solutions to glaring embarrassments without doing anything about the underlying problems.
>Many of people have already commented on this, but from my understanding, this parent did NOTHING and it going a passive-aggressive route to complain.

Did we read the same article?

>I consulted with friends — female developers — and talked to my daughter about how to handle the situation in class. I suggested that she talk to you. I offered to talk to you. I offered to come talk to the class. I offered to send one of my male friends, perhaps a well-known local programmer, to go talk to the class.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, the author claims to have spoken to the teacher and offer solutions... then writes a letter clearly outlining more solutions.

>Without getting into anymore of a rant, VB isn't bad, per say... it teaches variables, loops, and conditionals, the basics of any intro class. I'd only have a problem with this if it was a high-level college course.

Going to have to agree with you here. I think the teacher is going to have a much better impact than the language involved. For example, a friend and classmate took a Java course during high school. The teacher did nothing but force them to copy programs out of the book. I took a VB course and learned quite a bit. By the end of the class, I was writing games in my down time (pong, asteroids, a raycasting engine, etc.)
From a purely utilitarian, game theoretic pov, harassing and chasing girls out of your personal and professional social circles and networks is a very poor reproductive strategy. I would have thought programmers would be more logical, even if initially unthinking about it. If you love sausage fests, by all means, continue. Otherwise, think twice before disparaging girls and women, even jokingly (it's never a joke).
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Here is a sample code of a 1 depth scrape:

https://github.com/calufa/tales-templates/blob/master/core/s...

This is the api call to start the scraper on twitter:

http://localhost:8080/start?process=tales.scrapers.LoopScrap... -template tales.templates.FirstDepthTemplate -threads 2 -namespace com_twitter -baseURL twitter.com
Big deal, chinese clone or copycat doesn't validate the idea that Medium is a viable business, probably just because Medium made a lot of noise on HN and they noticed.
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Many people run Linux on MacBook Pro.
Accelerators are worthless to measure distances even if they were super precise. This is because you have to do double integration to get distance and the errors only accumulates. My guess is that they have used algorithms like SIFT to track points in space and estimate only small relative distances from sensors (gyro + accelerators). This is however is very cool. They should make this as an app that can construct 3D model (i.e. turning iPhone in to 3D scanner) and ability to send the model for printing.