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This article pissed me off, coding is a skill that teaches math, logic, comprehension, --all extremely important skills, it also teaches about consequences of actions via if/then statements we learn if we do something, it has a result. Kids need to learn this. It also teaches problem solving another crucially important skill - and I read STORY after STORY about a doctor, or lawyer who taught themselves to code to build an app...

Why would a rich doctor or lawyer need to code if it wasn't important? Why waste the time or money to learn? There will be hundreds of areas in a person's life where they could potentially find a way to make something easier through coding, and coding can also be translated into REAL world stuff via arduino, raspberry pi, etc -- the fact is w/ the internet of things, wearable tech, and robots taking over the workforce -- coding is something that we all should know at least a little bit about, and NO student will be worse off for having learned it.

If this is your logic, then why should we teach Music, Sports, or Art? (All important parts of our lives... but not something crucial to get along in life w/ unless your profession is in one of these fields, but if we didn't teach it, less people would go into it. )
Actually, Hakyll lists itself as including Tex support.
I work for a company that does casino/gaming equipment, we recently had to upgrade a cruise-liner that allowed to use onboard credit on the casino floor.

Apparently the biggest concern for the staff working on the casino floor was the Argentinean problem. The would take the biggest credit that they could get (this would create net account liquidity problems for the casino department etc).

I wanted to look up what the deal was and forgot until this article.
I always loved bloom filters, because to me, they showed something that was very fundamentally important.

That the amount of information required so that you can say whether an element is in a set or not is significantly less that the set itself.

That is just wierd, but amazing.

If someone asks me about weird and wonderful things in computer science, this is what I talk about.
Doesn't matter. Clicks registered, snark impulses satisfied, ad dollars exchanged - the system works, and everyone got what they came for.
This sounds like an awesome idea.
I switched to Namecheap several years ago and have never looked back. They are one of the only registrars to offer two-factor authentication.
> The secret for infinite money basically is selling Bitcoins to USD and then selling the USD to Ar$ Pesos.

Bitcoins are free?
Can we somehow support adding it? How does it work on Wikipedia..
All self-inflicted wounds. Argentinians could have a stable currency and a thriving, functional economy - there's nothing structural that's stopping them. But they choose not to, and have been making this choice for they last 100 years or so. It's a true pity.
Maybe that's the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn't have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight "deviant uses of the internet" to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi's service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it were registered through them.

http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pd...
No, you are _not_ having your property taken away; you are suffering a loss in its market value.

For most people, a reduction in the market value of their job or house makes more difference than the market value of their cash per se. Hence the need to keep an eye on the composition of inflation, as some parts may be going up and down more than others.
Tricks like that will work, but in the end, the best outcome is for battery technology to advance.
Type, say, 's' and then press your up arrow.
Humans can't multi-task.
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I am willing to accept those videos but why is the bullet not deformed?
In the settlement with Pixar, Lucasfilm and Intuit, the three companies -- which employed about 8 percent of the affected workers -- agreed to pay a total of $20 million, according to Kelly Dermody, the plaintiffs' lead lawyer.

Basically, this means that it was profitable for the companies to collude.

8% of 64,000 is about 5000 employees. $20 million is $4000 per employee. That's in all probability significantly less than the annual salary bump that a typical employee in the class would be likely to negotiate.

So the companies not only reduced their costs in the first year, they reduced it in subsequent years and avoided compounding the costs via raises and via subsequent negotiations with employees whose salaries would have been higher due to previous negotiations and compounding with raises.

But on the bright side, at least the attorneys got paid.
No, it just cements the idea that the Government can't do anything.
It was a poor choice of words on my part. I meant to suggest that they were knowable unknowns, but just that the people involved didn't have a clue.
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Tiny screens weren't a requirement. 14", 16", and 21" color displays were available since 1992, with resolutions of 640x480, 832x624, and 1152x870. A 1987 Mac II supported up to 6 displays, forming a single desktop. Not too shabby, eh?

However, the OS was behind the times, lacking memory protection and preemptive multitasking. It is incredible how much wasted effort went into Pink, Taligent, and Copland...
No it's not clear but it was helpful. There is an implication that a simple imgur link could be a mirror of the comic image. But then you would have to know that the content of the article was a comic image.
Other way round; if you have negative net worth, and wage deflation (i.e. your salary is reducing), then your debts stay at the same nominal value but get harder and harder to pay.

If you have a $100k job and $100k house with $100k mortgage, then 10% deflation means you have a $90k job and $90k house but $100k mortgage, which is now underwater and harder to pay off.
People can't multitask, at least not nearly as well as they think:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/24/170160105/if-you-...
It doesn't. There is a small cadre of Deletionists who go out of their way to kill off pages referring to programming languages. There was one bloke who single-handedly deleted dozens; I cannot now recall his name but it caused a helluva storm at the time. He was totally unrepentant.
That's a sign that you're in a fairly unhealthy workplace culture. Get out!

Meetings can be useful tools if you make sure to involve the right people and stay focused. This doesn't require anything special. Just define what you want to decide in the meeting, prepare for it ahead of time, and come to the required decision in the meeting -- discussing as necessary.

If you do that, it was a useful meeting. I have one or two such meetings a week at work, occasionally even three. They're rarely scheduled by management, but instead by the engineers building the system.

Meetings can also be used to disseminate information.
yes, everything points to cover-ups of CIA connections and Mafia-police connections. very embarrassing but no definite proof of wider conspiracy.
can you explain this a little deeper?
It's a strange feeling when, as a European who has lived and studied in America, I trust the Russians more than the US.
For perspective, twice Kentucky's entire state population commutes into Manhattan every weekday.

Scale matters.
I'd use tmux for that.
It's definitely a trade-off. For me, I just ended up doing -io.com :)
If you're saying that people leave tenured positions for non-professor positions, sure, happens all the time. But if you have tenure already, any professor position you get at another school will also be tenured. It would be an insult if a school offered a non-tenured position to an already tenured faculty.
Show HN: idea for a multiplayer programmable A.I. space game, anyone interested?
>My entire point is that HFT is valuable for reducing risk for this kind of work, you say "risk-averse" like it's a bad thing...

Er.. One of the fundamental reasons that HFT exists is increased market liquidity. Re-read what you wrote. You imply HFTs reduce risk and at the same time seem to accept that they are risk-averse - ergo unable to reduce risk as they shutdown when the markets risk profile increases. So which is it?

Oh and btw, since no humans trade securities at such a high frequency, The HFT trading that takes up such a sizeable portion of the total pie, is just an electronic game being played between two competing firms. So, even if they did reduce risk, it would not help human participants.
Right now the official rate is Bs.6.3 per dollar. The black market rate is just getting to Bs. 50/$.

Thats one of the reasons we are set to have a 50% inflation rate this year.

My monthly salary has withered away and as an engineer I'm making just over $200/mo.
Did you survey your team to see when their most/least productive times of the day are ?

I usually get the most done in the morning. I would not be as productive if I had nothing but meetings until lunch.

(It doesn't sound like "nothing but meetings until lunch" characterizes your team, I'm just making a point)
After the SOPA escapades, they became my primary registrar away from GoDaddy. So far i'm actually pretty happy with their service.
> The real world is messy, and conspiracy theorists will always be able to find things to stoke their suspicions

One of the things I have noticed over the years is that conspiracy theorists will often latch onto one detail that they think is odd, that doesn't quite jive with what you would expect from the official account, and use it as the basis of saying that the official account is a lie.

(Expect for a hyper-sentitivity to weirdness, that ignores the messy reality of reality..) So far, so good. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with finding a reason why the official story doesn't fit the observed facts. The problem occurs when they fail to ask themselves why that weirdness makes any more sense in their version of events.

Since what I just said there might not ring true, I'll give an example:

(The best example of this I have is "Why wouldn't they just actually shoot him from the book depository? It would be far simpler, shooters from different locations buys them little and seemingly serves to do nothing other than raise the suspicion of people like yourself.")

For various silly reasons, some "9/11 Truthers" think that empty remote controlled planes, probably controlled by the CIA or some other shadowy organization, were used in the 9/11 attacks. What they can never explain to me is why the CIA, or other shadowy organization, would use empty remote controlled planes instead of actually just hijacking planes.

Why all the stagecraft to imitate something that you could just actually do?
This is one of the reasons I like to provide detailed commit messages, and encourage my team members to do the same. I treat the commit message like a short email to the team (even if that's only future me) about why and how I made the change. Summarizing the change in writing often uncovers logical flaws or missing edge cases. I've aborted my commit (after copying the notes for reference) more times than I'd like to admit when I've realized that I've not thoroughly tested something or missed updating that admin report that would be affected, etc. The act of 'telling someone' exercises different pathways in the brain and helps you think about the problem differently. As someone already pointed out - it's a flavour of rubber duck programming. It also works really well in a team environment where your CI system emails the whole team the commit notes. You get a low ceremony quick design review. "Did you update the X system/form/report when you changed Y?" replies happen more often than you think, and junior devs can actually learn a lot about an existing system just by seeing the approach used by other team members.
guys; there's no real reason brazil is a country that has some problem no other country has. stop producing your personal bugbears against brazil as justification.

the only logical explanation here is that they're a bit dumb, had a bad experience with a brazillian (or group of) and decided to ban the whole country.

this says more about ifit than it does about brazillians.
good article , its frustrating when people romanticize dyslexia . My father was a genius in his own way and it was visible to those who worked with him on any of his project's. He could never overcome the liabilities of his "challenges".

There is nothing more frustrating than living in a world of words, and realizing it takes you 5x longer to work through the medium.
> But on the bright side, at least the attorneys got paid.

The attorneys probably took 40% of the $20 million, so the actual employees affected only got $2,400, which is a really bad deal. I'm surprised the class voted to accept that settlement.
I showed this to my wife and she didn't get it right away. I explained it to her then she said 'Does this mean I need to go?' because we were gchat'ing and I was working at the time (aka waiting for Eclipse to respond). I regrettably told her that we need to wrap it up.
Contrary to what you seem to be suggesting, in 1996 Macs ran full color 3D games, could use large screens, and they were known for its graphics – remember that MYST was made on Macs. System 7.5 was a great OS, it just didn’t have the modern features that Win95 had (protected memory, preemptive multitasking.) Also, let’s not forget that before the release of Windows95, the Mac’s OS was way more advanced. We’re talking about a rough patch of 3 years.
If the more expensive price tag means a less flikr's and alot more flickers than its worth the money to me.
Me too. Very happy with them after I switched off GoDaddy.
I think we should be delighted that the morality of anything comes up among technically enlightened audiences. For years, us engineers have been accused (often justly) for not caring.

The value HFT, day trading, and stock traders in general provide is far from clear-cut. When considering the merit of some economic enterprise you can't just take into account its local effects. For example, casinos also provide value: they provide entertainment and they feed a lot of people. But it's uncertain whether our society is better off with them or without them.
It is. Here's the bullet head on.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ce399.gif
All that is old is new again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
That's one of my favorite things about HN. People (typically) don't jump on top of the minor grammatical errors, typos, and misusages that pretty much everyone who doesn't triple-check their posts is inclined to make.

Unless they're particularly egregious, they're generally ignored and the content of the post is focused on instead.
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Tried it out, seems cool. Question aside from the app, what is the purpose of your non-profit and how are you funded?
This implies that each space ship will have full details about the world state. I think that makes the game too simple. It would be better IMO if the inputs to the ship were the values from some "sensors" (e.g. "distance to nearest object" from a bunch of different angles, and what they objects are, and maybe some "GPS-like" input if relevant).

It would also be cool if the world were really really big, and I could leave my spaceship running while I'm not at the computer and see how many points I've acquired by the time I get back.
Perhaps I should have used a different example, but the main point was that Galileo's supposed Leaning Tower experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa...) is counter intuitive and it's harder to convince laypeople of counter intuitive ideas especially when the "competing" idea is more intuitive.
No problem! I'd imagine it's frustrating to see something you've worked on be attacked for having an agenda that you don't actually have. As far as I can see, the approach you took is the only reasonable one you could have taken to provide a service like Intro. Hopefully you can deal with problems like the one outlined in the article!
Isn't HATEOAS more about just URL changes, though? It is about letting the responses provide available responses to the client. This requires a commitment to creating media types or using existing ones, along with using link relations. Not using REST correctly leads to such complicated best practices that recommend adding .json to a URL to get the JSON representation. You shouldn't have to go to the documentation to figure out have to craft that URL to get a representation of a resource.
How do you get the $ to buy bit coins? I've been thinking about doing that in Venezuela but we only get $400 per year for online purchases.
I've thought about doing something like this for a while, but on a more dynamic level. More along the lines of capturing check-ins from Facebook and Foursquare as well as other life events and making them available (with permission) via an API.

Someone brought up to me that it would be pretty much like Google Now - which isn't completely correct, but it gets to what the value could be.
The bullet was deformed:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u320/ranb40/firearms/Notp...

Oswald used full metal jacket ammunition designed for piercing targets, and post-impact deformations for such bullets are often slight. (Incidentally, such ammo is not the best choice for an assassination, as hollow-point bullets that explode on impact are much deadlier. This is yet more evidence that Oswald wasn't a pro.)
Then I think we are on the same page.

I can understand railing against the statement "e-cigarettes are harmless" because the active ingredients are definitely not.

That said, if you could replace every cigarette in the world right now with an e-cig. Would you not do it? I would. They have their own host of problems, but not so much as inhaling burnt plant matter has. Even with what we know now, we know it is the lesser of two evils.

I understand, you don't like people being imprecise, neither do I frankly. It's rather hard to stop though, one of those human nature thingies.
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I remember this little joke about Argentine inflation: It's cheaper to take a taxi than a bus, because in a taxi you pay at the end of the trip.
AskHN: Does # of Rails Devs = More Startups / Jobs for a City?
I'm working on this idea to build a startup similar to Devbootcamp or LaunchAcademy teaching how to build webapps using Rails/Backbone/Jquery/JS/HTML etc.. My idea is if you build 'them'(developers) they (businesses/startups) will come.

Dayton, used to be the silicon valley of the 1900s, aviation, auto-part technologies, computers and cash registers.. I want to revive the innovative spirit here in Dayton - and I believe that if I can help churn out RoR devs it might ignite something.

The startup culture here is not very big, I want to change that.

Currently there are about 15 people in Dayton who know Ruby on Rails - if that number were closer to 500 or 1000 would that bring more jobs? Will companies go where the talent is? Are they likely to hire remotely?

If my bootcamp takes off, can I get these people jobs, locally, remotely, and via relocation?

It seems to me that one thing that most startup hubs like SF, Austin, Chicago, and Boston have in common : LOTS of Rails Coders + LOTS of Rails Job Openings -- filling that gap in smaller cities could ignite a startup growth in those cities - that is my hypothesis - what do you think?
It is weird that we accept that "knowing person A's date of birth and mother's maiden name" is remotely acceptable as a proxy for "being person A"; similar to the weird US bank custom of accepting "knowing the account number and name associated with an account" as a proxy for "is authorized to withdraw money from the account"...
because if the trade comes in too early it would automatically rejected by the g/w. Also how could the orders in a published orderbook be secret?
It's not that these things don't help creatives, but that they are not reliably sufficient to produce something of value.

If I'm coding on an uninspired day, I can easily just shift to tasks that I know are simpler, and create a perfectly workable (if boring) solution. I can work my way through to finding even fairly subtle bugs just by stepping through the logic; it's slower than a flash of insight, but it works.

A writer or other creative person with high standards must discard all of that uninspired work. In theory it may help keep the ideas churning, but for most writers I know it can be a frustrating grind when things just aren't quite clicking. It certainly helps to "train the muse" by writing every day at the same time, always filling the page (even with nonsense if that's all you can produce), and so on, but at the end of the day, they can't say "well, this is a shitty story, but it'll pay the bills". It won't.

There's also the psychological difficulty that comes with putting sometimes years of work into something that may actually have no monetary value, or minimal. There are obvious parallels to building a startup, except that novels that succeed can't naturally be built into sustaining income -- you have to start another novel, and it can easily earn you nothing after 5 years of work.
This is a really fascinating read. Did they really have to give it such a facile, link-baity title? One step forward, one step back for the Grey Lady.
Obviously, he wouldn't schedule a meeting if he didn't think it was important.

I suspect there is a correlation between managers who believe their meetings are important and managers who believe that an hourly breakdown of a direct report's work tasks is a more meaningful metric than the direct report's work output.
Citation here: http://en.mercopress.com/2013/10/21/argentine-central-bank-l...
We'll add a link to this in the post now.
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If you use the gui version of emacs instead of the terminal version you can still use the scrollwheel.

I usually run 1 gui emacs instance with my main development environment and only use the terminal version when logged into remote machines.
anyone who spends any amount of time working near programmers, or gives a shit about their programmer coworkers should get this. If not, give them a copy of "Flow" and PG's essay on makers and managers and enlighten them.

Also, be aware that flow applies to all your non programmer friends too. I usually have to train people to respect the signal of the headphones. The most common compromise I've struck is that we IM each other first and ask "are you in flow?" before diving in. It's acceptable culturally to say "yes-ping me in 1 hour." etc.

But maybe that's because I've been in tech for over a decade now and so many people trained me right. :)
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That's definitely unfortunate. Seems like a lot of stuff I've done inadvertently requires ffi. And lately with Ruby 2.0.0-p247 on OS X Mavericks ffi 1.9.1 has been crashing..
What is super bizarre is after I had some blood work done, the doctor said I was deficient in Vitamin D and I live in Southern California. He further continued, that we often are indoors most of the time, and even when we go outside we cover up and don't get much direct exposure.

Adding to the further craziness, I asked several of my friends of their vitamin d levels and they said they were deficient also.
I don't really disbelieve the official account of 9/11 in any strong sense, but your reasoning here seems silly. Why not hijack a plane and crash it into a building? Maybe because you'd really rather not be in a plane that crashes into a building!
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