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There could be potential in that idea. Ff it were a few more people and every one covering one specific area with one new paper each week presented, it could make an really interesting grad student brain incubator. I would definitely join in if there were a bit coordination.
Wow. I always thought that the only restriction of the Home/Student edition was that it didn't come with Access or Outlook.

They prohibit you from making money with it? That blows my mind. Not only is it completely unenforceable (the PR backlash from Microsoft doing an enforced license audit of the likely purchaser of that version would be immense), it's completely pointless. Again, the products are differentiated by what they lack.

I wonder if the Microsoft legal department counts creating lemonade stand or yard sale signage to be "commercial use"...
Before others get knickers in a twist: it's the E190. Also I think they only have one A321 so far, and I don't know enough to make a statement about part / training compatibility between the A320s and the A321 line.

Also, JetBlue already has two cabin products - the "Even More" seats, which you can book for an extra price, and give you additional legroom comparable to an exit seat, along with boarding first and a special security line with a smaller wait. On the A320 I flew a few weeks ago, the exit rows as well as the first 5 rows in the cabin were premium seats. So now you add in Mint and you basically have three classes of seats on JetBlue
I think you over-egg the argument.

Mass violence attackers who are part of an organized political movement are usually sane -- but they're not intelligent. The smart ones almost always find a way to participate in the mainstream political process to get their desired outcome, so they don't take up arms. Relatively few intelligent terrorists exist; they usually do so in circumstances where there's (a) an intolerable level of oppression, (b) the authorities aren't listening and won't negotiate, and (c) peaceful protests have failed -- and if (d) the authorities eventually agree to negotiate, they rapidly lay down arms. (Examples of statesmen who were formerly defined as terrorists by governments they subsequently became part of: Nelson Mandella, Menachem Begin, Martin McGuinness. None of whom were either insane or stupid.)
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I would hope that the security apparatus would apprehend any bomber insane enough to loudly talk about plans long before they got to an airport queue. Surely getting that far in your attack is a clear indicator of, if not sanity, then good planning and op-sec?
One thing that I always find surprising is that Soviet space programs have about the same fatality rate as NASA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...

I remember jokes about unreliable and shoddy Soviet construction, people cutting corners and all, and about "high quality" American technology, where everyone is honest and human safety comes first. Yet looking back the track record doesn't quite match.

Obviously Americans launched larger crews. But you know, that is also perhaps thing that should have factored in -- "If we launch 8 people at once, we will probably kill all of them if an accident happens".

Another issue is well Americans just launched more flights so they clearly would have a higher accident rate. It seems from the above site, the rate of accidents (per flight?) is about the same for both space programs.
I assure you that "Word" is foisted on people who otherwise wouldn't touch it. It's foisted in many, many ways, from project managers who ask for "a word version", to software process methodologies whose official templates are in "Word" to requirement tracking systems that demand "Word" versions of every single document, because the tracking system produces "Word" docs.

I don't think most people distinguish "Word" docs from any printed doc, except those sophisticated enough to use "Excel" to produce columnar-format data ("Word" tables are hard to do and sucky looking).
The comments in the reddit thread[1] are worth reading, especially those by the author of this library, edwardk.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1o6iqs/why_i_dont_l...
I don't even think it's ready to be used in a prototype. No joins, no unions, as mentionned before SQL injections. I mean, besides teaching yourself what a basic Mapper is, I don't see any use to this.
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I have no training in the biological sciences. In fact I have worked hard all my life to sabotage and undermine my understanding of biology.

However, unfortunately for you, my genes made me a biology expert and there is nothing that you can do about it but accept your genetic inferiority on the subject.
I can sympathize with this post. I've used lenses a handful of times now in my Haskell, and I find myself using them generally for the same thing every time. I feel like my use case with lenses is a tiny fraction of the lens library is capable of doing and I'm sort of perplexed what I'd use the rest of the library for. That's not bashing on the library at all, I think it's totally awesome, I just only use it for one thing, basically. It's a HUGE-ly engineered beast. I'm sure Edward Kmett knows what he's doing way more than I do.

It's not that hard to implement a little lens type and make the basic functions you want on it (without the template Haskell goodies, of course). I've also done that in at least one case. I'd really like to learn some of the more advanced things I can do with the lens library, though.
I would put even money on such jokes working out for you in Ireland, for what its worth.
> HN has no sense of humor.

(Downvotes and arrest are radically different punishments, but I'm guessing you realize that, so setting that aside...)

I haven't read the pg essay you're referencing. I've been smacked down for a joke here or there, spent some time wondering about the same thing.

HN seems influenced partly by a frustration with other aggregators, forums. There's an explicit desire to prevent the slide towards irrelevance.

Comedy and drama never compete on a level playing field, true of forums, or in any other arena. Probably because they just aren't commensurable, and don't belong on the same scale. You can't really compare Airplane!, The Shining, or Before Sunset. They're all just completely different experiences. If people take something very seriously, like the Oscars, they tend to ignore comic achievements. If people are quickly flipping through the internet out of boredom, it can swing the other way.

One of the best moderation systems for cultivating both at the same time is over at Slashdot, where you can mod something up as "funny," "insightful," or "informative." Then readers can filter comments based on which of these they'd rather see. Everyone's experience is customized, and the "funny" upvotes are just on a completely separate scale.

All moderation systems and interfaces involve tradeoffs though, and HN seems to pride itself on simplicity. The simple interface, combined with the desire to escape the trivial tone of Reddit, pushes to a more serious discussion, maybe one that takes itself a little too seriously. But that seems a fair balance against the rest of the Internet, which probably doesn't take itself seriously at all.

That said, you can do humor on HN, you just have to know your audience. I wouldn't use "The Aristocrats" with my family at dinner, on HN, I'd stick to incredibly dry long form satire reminiscent of Jonathan Swift. Really, anything that would appeal to the humor of someone living in the Victorian era should work. Less LOL, more HVD (for "how very droll").
"People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things…well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don’t want to know that a man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds." - Lord Vetinari.

You get a similar thing in many fields, people don't want to hear the reality they want the myth to be "be a creative thinker, solve the problem make millions" when the reality was (for the post it here), a scientist who'd spent years in his field learning the state of the art in adhesives accidentally invented the glue used on post-it's which then languished for 5 years before someone else used it to stick a bookmark.
Alex! It's awesome that you've decided to do this and you have my support! I'm replying to you because I want to pitch you something: I'm running a free open platform for simplified summaries of scientific papers: http://www.sciencegist.com

If you decide to contribute these layman's explanations to Science Gist, I can guarantee you will earn yourself at least one user of the day award :P

Award: https://twitter.com/ScienceGist/status/367559501349543936/ph...

On a scientist's desk:
https://twitter.com/RobBeagrie/status/367918271095242752/pho...

Good luck!
Correction: it is 50%. I didn't learn my actual rank, I learned my rank among law school applicants, who I now see are a higher GPA cohort.

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k79903&pageid=i...

Cor:
Same here on latest Firefox Aurora, a gray rectangle in the middle.
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At least they can't hit me with a stun baton if I throw the can at them, right?... Right?
The complaint is actually about a design pattern for configuring a framework, popular in Java.
It isn't even criticism. It disturbed me, but I didn't ever say it was bad.
Or worse, actually bring large quantities of Mercury onboard the airplane, disguised as shampoo, and then use it to melt the plane away in-flight ..
How do you know this to be the case? Can you give a couple of examples of US attackers who did this? (Not including FBI plants who spoke deliberately attempting to incite violence in others)
Google: David j malan cs50.

Cs50 collapsed in the first tech boom, and then Malan reinvented the course in 2007, drastically increasing enrollment (including women, relatively) ahead of the current/recent boom
Yeah I can imagine, this will definitely need to be "done right" to work. What would you, as a developer, want from someone offering to "bundle" your app?
If you do become really good at summarizing papers, you are welcome to join our (shameless plug of a free and open source project) Science Gist (http://www.sciencegist.com) community. It's early days for this project, but I believe it has a huge potential. Also, since you're living in the same city as I am, we should get coffee/tea sometime soon and talk science.
I think I can add some innovation to this discussion (whichever definition of innovation you'd like) to point out the inherently illogical nature of this discussion.

Usually you only hear about innovations that are a success, failure is an orphan but success has a million fathers, etc. Therefore by the rules of logic all innovation leads to success. Surely by all rules of logic anything true in one way it true the other way, so all success required innovation. Given that scenario as starting conditions and rules of the game, minor engineering evolutionary improvements that none-the-less are eventually profitable, must be defined as super tiny incremental irrelevant forms of innovation, although they're really just boring gradual evolution.

Or if you really want to muddy the waters there's some fun analogies you can make between evolution vs intelligent design and mere incremental product development and actual innovation, and how both mental models seem to make their owners both really happy and extremely binary in their outlook toward the opposite.
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Depends what you are doing but Python or Perl can make great systems programming languages.

Of course if you are doing Linux kernel hacking, you'll need C. Go and D are probably also modern examples of what could be used for systems programming as well.
I have to take issue with the generalization on the number of people that feel this way, there is at least one political party that seems to be quite happy with government doing more and doing it better and I would argue both the major parties seem content to do this albeit for different pet reasons. (The republicans seen to like competent militaries and drug enforcement agencies)

With that said, can you provide some examples of willfully making government incompetent (and hopefully not just anecdotes)? I don't mean to seem confrontational on your point, it's provocative to assert this is done on purpose as opposed to it simply happening on its own, so if in fact you are right that would be outrageous and wasteful set of actions to say the least. Some examples might help to put me in your camp, because I'd consider that worthy of a revolution and I am genuinely interested in your point. It's interesting.

Potential counter example: NSA. They seem quite competent at their stated mission, frighteningly so. Perhaps this hobbling of government is limited to only certain functions, but not all?
ORM's are for basic CRUD crap.

SQL is for queries that matter. My ORM usage is almost entirely limited to: get this record, change these values, save it. Anything involving complex joins/ unions gets thrown to raw SQL. Better yet, stored functions on the DB side. Postgres is awesome for this.
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Not just teaching myself. This could teach anyone else that didn't know about object mappers. Even if this is the most insecure code in the world, it can be improved. That's the reason it is on github. You could contribute and add joins, unions, sanitize the user inputs, etc.
Yeah, it's called d3.
Totally agree. This is the reason I wrote this tiny toy "ORM" just for CRUD.
Frameworks sound great until you inherit a franken-app built using one. You might be able to understand bits if they religiously followed the dogmatic usage of the framework but more likely they just wanted to get stuff built and not wanting to learn someone else's idea of the perfect wheel maker framework and so ended up still building something unique, baroque, and possibly impenetrable.

Frameworks in the most case feel like straightjackets, so I understand why developers feel the need to abandon some of the magic and build bits that are actually simple robust and supportable, but it can become hell for subsequent developers.
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There's at least three poles pulling against each other WRT stealing the creativity label, you've got one, two other poles are masquerading technical incompetence as creativity, and the other (related?) is masquerading a fundamental lack of good style taste as creativity.

There probably are people/situations trying to do more than one at the same time.
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I have just found your netbook on the backseat of a taxi with it already logged into your bank account.

So that makes it okay to transfer your life savings to my account, right?
The frog-boiling story is false - actual frogs try to jump out when the water gets too hot. So invoking it usually detracts from the argument being made. (If we were like the frog, we'd ignore incremental heat increases until they became uncomfortable, then get out.)
Have they stopped selling pornographic magazines in their shops?
1. The only way to have even somewhat secure Digital Restrictions Management is to have some proprietary binary on the local machine which can authenticate itself to the display device. This requires a level of access permission which you do not want to provide to the web in general.

2. If the DRM blob were delivered via the web, then it would be trivially easy to connect through a proxy that delivered its own ineffective DRM blob. Content companies would not accept this solution.

3. The goal of EME is not to increase the number of people who can access restricted content, it's to provide a replacement for the rapidly collapsing Flash Player pseudo-standard. The various content companies require their distributors to use something at least as good as Flash, but YouTube et al know that Flash probably won't exist in a few years, so the race is on to see which replacement will dominate the market.

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The basic position of EME opponents appears to be that if we refuse to allow DRM modules in browsers, then the companies pushing DRM will give up and let us watch unrestricted video. This position, in my opinion, is fantastically optimistic.

If EME is blocked, then these companies will either start distributing their own customized locked-down applications ("You must install the Netflix Player to watch this movie"), or will work privately with the major proprietary browser platforms (IE, Safari, Android Chrome, ChromeOS) to implement what they demand. Firefox and Chrom{e,ium} will be left out in the cold, and the advancement of the open web will se a significant setback.
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So now I understand why jokes are bad in HN
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Neat! What sort of web stuff? Using Seaside or something else?

Do you think you could send me an email (in my profile here), I'd love to pick your brains about using Pharo in production!
How do you expect to do anything spectacular if you don't put in effort to get good at something?
That's lucky! I think most people who need this thrill and autonomy have mainly bad experiences from working in corporations.
Also, throw the head DHS and TSA officials in Guantanamo for terrorizing the American public.
It 'd be best if you ask a real, qualified lawyer in the country you're resigning.

In most countries though, you're under duty to return the documents to the owner ASAP, and you're eligible to some kind of compensation according to the value of the documents.
I agree with all the comments saying that this is dangerous and not a good idea in general. However I've been doing (and using) something related (more in the spirit of Clojure HoneySQL, as I discovered recently), where the idea is to ease the interop of plain data structures and SQL in a pythonic way:

https://github.com/cjauvin/little_pger

I always got the nagging feeling that I should rather use SQLAlchemy, which probably solves the problem in a more elegant and general way, but this little thing has been working great for me.
> and reminds me of the practice in Nazi occupied terriroties of having loudspeakers in the street to control, order and relay propaganda to the restless occupied. I don't think Godwin's Law counts here either. This is a legitimate comparison.

Comparing stupid, sub-optimal, broken security theatre to the propaganda efforts of a genocidal regime is, and there's no polite way to say this, fucking stupid.
thanks. i actually used homerow instead of numbers for a month or two. for some odd reason, i find it quicker to discern what combination i have to press with numbers. 'dk' is harder to pick up then '18' for me. or on company websites you can just do 'fconta' and off it goes. you dont even have to look for the link

> I don't need to look down on keyboard or move my hands to numpad.

that does not happen for me anyways. i use my numbers too much (e.g. switching windows/tabs).
Between Word and Wordperfect, the latter was the better product. But Word was easier to use for simple documents.
This was posted 47 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6283601

I'm not again repost but I don't think the situation has changed in less than 2 months.
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I'm sure that one might find a more concise and elegant way of expressing the thoughts I attempted to convey in that sentence. But I hope you'll agree that reducing

> Everything might be rightly construed as a potential influence on human behavior, and anything taken to excess might inspire dangerous or irresponsible behavior; but it's very dangerous to treat human beings as fungible stimulus-response machines, and locate the nexus of responsibility for outcomes in the complex of external behavioral influences rather than in human agency itself.

to

> while there can be mitigating circumstances, I believe in personal responsibility

is at best an example of extremely lossy compression. That rewording gives at most a vague impression of what my position would be were the question reduced to a mere binary "are you for or against prohibition?" contest.

I agree that concision is important, and I know that my earlier comment didn't quite achieve it, but I'd still regard concision as efficiency in the use of words: saying as much in fewer words, not using fewer words for its own sake, even if it means actually saying less.
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Really excellent article about the deaths of the cosmonauts and the global political response: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/04/28/crew-home-misf...
How will the open Web advance if EME is added to the standard? Using HTML with DRM modules in a "standard" way doesn't make the Web any more open, than when that DRM is outside outside the browser altogether. I.e. while content companies are crazy bent on DRM, let them use their custom applications all they want. What's the problem with that? In time they might gain sanity and drop this useless junk. But their mind sickness is not a reason to pollute the standard with it as well.
> The basic position of EME opponents appears to be that if we refuse to allow DRM modules in browsers, then the companies pushing DRM will give up and let us watch unrestricted video.

No, that's not the expectation of EME opponents. EME opponents understand that companies will continue to use restricted access, as they always have, but want them to do it off-spec and on their own dime.

> If EME is blocked, then these companies will either start distributing their own customized locked-down applications ("You must install the Netflix Player to watch this movie"), or will work privately with the major proprietary browser platforms (IE, Safari, Android Chrome, ChromeOS) to implement what they demand. Firefox and Chrom{e,ium} will be left out in the cold, and the advancement of the open web will se a significant setback.

That would be far less of a setback for the open web than the current state, which bakes the notion of restricted access into the open standards.
> I've been downvoted a few times recently for attempting to make a few jokes of my own

HN doesn't want noise, they want signal.

> To those who've ever upvoted a well intentioned humorous comment that gave a slight chuckle or reprieve from the (amazingly thought provoking and informative) super on-topic and serious comments that are encouraged on this site. - I absolutely and unequivocally salute you.

Christ no. HN needs more downvoting and more upvoting.
> [1] A large subset of the American population believe that government can do no good.

[2] An even larger subset of American population believe that government was there assigned by God and one should listen and obey it. Anyone who disagrees or criticizes government's position (especially related to privacy issues, torture, wars, extra-judicial executions) is deemed a terrorist sympathizer.

They are also known as authoritarian followers. Their numbers far far surpass the number of those who think "government can do no good". From my observation, the proportion is surprising given the story of "freedom", "war of independence", "democracy". I have seen more dissent and criticism of government in other countries with governments with authoritarian or totalitarian leanings.