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they aren't repeat offenders if the evidence used against them was fraudulent. If that evidence was the basis of their conviction they should be free and this prosecutor should be out of a job for such threats.

Look, he only does this because his position is mostly safe for him to abuse. He has already declared all these people guilty, sadly I bet he is more upset the chemist was caught than the possibility people were wrongfully convicted.
Put yourself into a mindset that the best thing that happened in 2013 was you getting fired.

Good luck!
A possible alternative is Miniscule: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/256tm/minuscule/

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Making a language less simple/more complex, in some cases leads to an easier language.

For example, Lisp has a simple syntax, but most people would consider infix math notation easier, although more complex.
>Women should be able to be in the army

Yes, the feminists in my country succeeded in giving women the right to be in the army, but not the responsibility. Conscription still forces men to be in the military, but women have the freedom to choose. They haven't really talked about the military after that.
A secure blockchain has a plethora of uses beyond money. Currently the Bitcoin blockchain is the only blockchain to offer the kind of security necessary for innovations such as Proof of Existence, http://www.proofofexistence.com/about

In the future the same blockchain could be used for automated arbitration, estate planning, "smart" property ownership/transference.

Less than 1% of the value of gold has anything to do with its industrial/artistic uses.
The idea is usually to approach several paths (e.g., regenerative or rejuvenative medicine, mind uploading) in parallel, because we have only so much time and there's no guarantee that the one we'd prefer will work.
The current generation of old people have to die and they will. Some of them actually hold modern views and have bothered to keep their minds active from youth into their old age. The ability to change one's mind and empathise with modernity can be learned.
NoSQL would be the obvious choice to implement this!
This is awesome. I can see myself having a sprites.scss file specifically for these and just copy pasting the rules.
I agree partially with the critiques.

The things I don't like in Scala:

1. Compile times. It is a problem for big projects. SBT / FSC helps quite a lot, but IMHO it is still not enough. I hope they get them much better in Scala 2.11. Also performance and correctness of the IDE plugin typechecking could be better, so I don't have to compile that often.

2. Lack of backwards binary compatibility. Source compatibility is ok, but selecting the right version of all the libraries is pretty painful, especially if the authors of the library didn't make the packages (yet) or they haven't been deployed to maven repo, etc.

3. That some elegant code constructs come with sometimes huge runtime performance penalty. It got much better recently (e.g. for loops are as fast as while loops now in Scala 2.10), but I feel it could be better. Again - hope Scala 2.11 addresses those concerns at least partially.

The things I don't agree with the OP:

1. Documentation - it is awesome.

2. Syntax flexibility - many times DSL is a better way of expressing things than just a bunch of methods, and easier to learn.

3. Tooling - good enough now, and improving fast.

4. Type inference - I consider it good enough, albeit not perfect. And types in method signatures add a lot to code readability.

There may be some languages that have better IDE support, faster compile times, better type inference, richer type system etc. But none of them supports full feature set of Scala, particularly all the available libraries. So IMHO taking every single feature out from Scala and comparing it let's say to Haskell or ML is ridiculous.
No need to be sorry. Many articles are posted, sometimes again and again, and the point is not necessarily that it shouldn't be done, but more, that previous submissions will have useful and/or interesting discussions.

The very fact that it's been submitted so many times simply says that it is an issue of relevance to the HN audience - you just might not get the discussion and votes you expect.
For the super smart, there's definitely work for them to do, but it's pretty limited stuff and you really have to like physics or math to do it.

Are you sure? Who's to say the super-smart couldn't help us with other more mundane problems like understanding each other better, being more productive, thinking more rationally, etc.? I've had useful insights on these three topics that seemed very clever to me and I know of friends who have also had such useful, clever insights.

At the top of any HN comment thread, you're likely to see some clever, apt insight on a topic unrelated to science & math.

Regarding your examples, Marilyn vos Savant's IQ seems pretty sketchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant#Rise_to_fam... I don't know what evidence you have that Scott Adams is supersmart; he's a Mensa member, but I suspect many HN users could become Mensa members if they wanted to (an acquaintance reports that the intellectual caliber of a Mensa meetup is around that of a science fiction convention; the top 2% of the population is simply not that high of a bar).

I do agree that after you reach a certain IQ, determination, habits, ambition, rationality, etc. become larger determining factors in your level of success. But if you are smart enough you can optimize those manually for yourself ;)
I was just looking for this over the weekend, and found it this morning.

When I talk about code to collaborators in email or chat, I always try to link to the file on github rather than just giving a path. I much prefer to recieve feedback that way. Maybe i'm not good enough with my text editor, but it is just a lot faster to get to the file that way.
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That's a tragic (bad word, but it's early) amount of pressure to put on someone in their mid twenties...
Perfect information may not have been the right term.

Steve Keen devotes a the second half of chapter 11 in Debunking Economics to the EMH. The core issues are that the empirical data does not support it and that the maths behind it is all based on the assumptions that everyone can borrow freely at the same risk free rate and secondly that everyone has the same expectations ("homogenity of investor expectations: investors are assumed to agree on the prospects of various instruments - the expected values, standard deviations and correlation coefficients..." - Sharpe 1964 quoted in Debunking Economics 2011.)

That the EMH may be false does not mean that I believe I will necessarily win any more than the fact that Poker is significantly a game of skill means that I would necessarily win. I can be outplayed and/or have luck against me. But I wouldn't play for significant money unless I strongly believed that I had the advantage, the same is true for the market.
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I believe this is possible. Just look at these autonomous drones doing stunts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM Delivering a packet is much easier than the stuff the are doing in this vid.
I think I read that phrase from you before on nyc. I think it's a misleading catchprase.

For me and I think most other Scala devs Scala is a statically typed FP-OO language. So Haskell doesn't do it justice because Haskells insistence on purity makes it impractical for me in getting stuff done.
And Java doesn't do it justice because Java is held back by its history.
"Superset of" makes it sounds like a weakness and overwrought. In my experience it offers a sweat spot of the best features of static FP and OO.

So what about your mention of Lisp and Javascript? Unless you're deep in some framework you don't need to know about the support for macros and structural typing. I've ignored those two so far because I haven't needed them (yet?). And I haven't felt they were in my way.

So where you say "a superset of Haskell, Lisp, Javascript and Java" I say "the sweet spot of the best features of static FP and OO for the real world. Leveraging the JVM ecosystem".
Can we talk about the real issue in this article? Forty-five MILLION people are functionally illiterate. How was I not aware of this? Why aren't people more concerned about this?
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Wow. Obnoxious on multiple levels:

"Amazon's drone debacle also moved discussion of its tax bill – another long-running controversy, sparked by the Guardian's revelation last year that the company had UK sales of £7bn but paid no UK corporation tax "

- Introducing your own newspaper into the debate negates any chance you have that this is in impartial journalistic piece. Secondly, I doubt Bezos is thinking about some UK tax noise when deciding whether or not to discuss drone's with 60 minutes.

"It's too late for the clickfarms already. But outlets and journalists who'd like to think of themselves as serious must stop regurgitating this crap. And, even more importantly, you,concerned citizen, must try to stop clicking on it."

- Let me lecture both my peers and my audience on how they need to behave. I'm uniquely qualified to do this because........well for no real reason actually except a heightened sense of self worth.

Hack job.
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True, minus the high IQ part.
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Despite Warren Buffet's quote, what he actually does with his investments is nothing at all like stock picking -- he acquires substantial fractions of companies and then uses that control (and his personal brand) to change how those businesses and the markets they operate in run.

He's not picking companies whose values will go up, he's picking companies he can cause to increase in value by owning them. This is something non-billionaire investors can do, too, but probably not for publicly traded companies.
Kinda, but not exactly, same kind of issue that is prevalent when learning private/protected/public (or the equivalents). They do not actually prevent code from outside accessing the bits you specify, like what you'd except if you think them like being similar to file permission bits. Rather they are hints for the type system and usually invisible at runtime.

In the same way, scopes do not actively prevent code from outside accessing the variables within. Rather they are hints for the compiler that these variables are associated with these bits of code, and usually on runtime they are just organized in most efficient way rather than enforcing the scope boundaries.
Devices that do this already exist and have done since 1983: Tomahawk cruise missiles. Huge areas of military technology have been developed for precisely delivering explosives; now they are being repurposed for non-harmful use.

GPS is certainly enough to fly it to the visual vicinity of your house. I can imagine needing to supply a landing marker (large QR code?) to tell it exactly where to land.
I like the falling leaves. :)
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Not bad. Although it took me a minute to figure out what language the example code was in. I'd suggest a note to mention that it's PHP. (And also, possibly, using a different language, but that's a matter of taste.)
Type aliases do not solve this. The closest you can get is using the new value classes & those have some very big caveats
Why do they always build the prototype so big?
You are fixed on that IQ stat, talking about it as some kind of metric and even doing math with it, but you fail to understand what the metric means. Even such a simple thing as running speed is not that simple. One might say it measures muscle strength, or "the capability of your body", while really it measures a combination of muscle strength, tendon elasticity and nervous system fitness (or running skill). Now we see that if you don't know HOW to run, you might be even stronger and still run slower than more skilled weaker runner.

Now IQ. Let's look at the test. What you see is many different kind of questions. Pattern matching for language, geometry and numbers generally. What does it mean that you answer those questions correctly? It means you are good at matching patterns in words, shapes and you know math a little. That's it. It doesn't show anything more than that. Those skills does not even directly transfer to other areas.

Your exclusion of hyper-specialized people like professional chess player is actually hitting the spot on the point here - high IQ people are just hyper-specialized on IQ tests (I bet many of them practiced to solve them multiple times) and generally tasks that require pattern matching. It doesn't mean you can do math, that you know chemistry, politics, that you know how to communicate with people or what to do with money. Those are all learned.

If you can make analogy of brain as car, and the "life achievement" as distance traveled, then IQ would just be the speed, or power of the car. What flows from this is that you don't magically appear from NY to LA when you get a faster car (you are of higher IQ) than other people. It just means that if you go to LA with it, you might come there a little faster. This also means that anyone with lower IQ can achieve same things, it just takes a little more time.

Now, same as driving further even with slower car, or running faster (if you are more skilled runner) than stronger runner, people can also be more intelligent even while having lower IQ just by knowing more, having more experience and having more skill. Because they have spent much more time excelling these skills. That's why I don't even think it should be called IQ, I think it should be changed to PMC (Pattern Matching Coefficient), because it doesn't measure intelligence at all. Besides, when talking about intelligence, one must specify what narrow area you are talking about, otherwise it doesn't even make sense on it's own.
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Mobile phones (or cell phones, for you Americans) have changed a lot since my first one. I remember as a teenager being thrilled when I got my hands on a brand new Nokia 3310. Changeable covers, programmable MIDI ringtones, cheap, tough, simple.

I remember around about that time there were "PDAs" on the market. Personal Digital Assistant. Calendar, contacts, notes, organisation, maybe some basic web browsing. Palm Pilots, Pocket PCs, styluses, etc. So...whatever happened to PDAs? How did they decline, and why?

Well, the marketeers selling these products had a brain wave. "Everyone has a mobile phone of sorts, and buys a new one every year or two. PDAs aren't selling as well as we'd like. Why not keep selling them, but call them 'mobile phones'?"

That's right. It was all in the name. You bought a PDA because you needed a new phone. It's not a phone. It's a computer that lives in your pocket. Chances are you already have at least one computer at home. Now you have two.

The old Nokias, that do phone calls/texts/not much else are the true mobile phones and they pretty much peaked in terms of delivering that functionality. What you have in your pocket right now is only a phone by name - sure it does phone calls, but that's a tiny subset of things that it can do.

If I sold you a car, and I called it "a three piece suite", then it's technically true. You have two armchairs in the front and a sofa in the back. It's a three piece suite. Everyone needs a three piece suite, right? Therefore: you need a car.

If they'd called them "Pocket Computers", nobody would've bothered. Call them "Mobile Phones", and it was a natural continuation of an already established market.

Welcome to the slow manipulation of the public consciousness and possibly the shrewdest marketing direction conceived in modern civilisation.
Care to cite anything about this? From a Biochemist's perspective, when done properly, chemical analysis is extremely accurate and provides a great deal of information.
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The author seems to be mainly arguing in favor of focusing on traditional literacy. The point isn't how much time or effort is spent on a topic, but the way in which it's taught. Many of the countries doing better than the US in literacy have their students in school less that the US over their primary and secondary school careers.

(At 180 days * 6.7 hours a day[2], the US would hit ~ 1200, vs the 960 hr / year average for OECD countries, and many fewer for some of the top countries[1]).

The difference is in the way subjects are taught. As many people learn through many different ways, and are inspired to learn by many different topics, we should be encouraging schools to increase the number of subjects we teach, not limit them.

It would only make sense, then, to offer classes in algorithmic math or integrating coding and art classes, to offer further opportunities to discover new ideas and expand kids' minds.

Edit: fixed US hours

1: http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/48631122....

2: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/tables/table_15.asp
Unfortunately, there is a chain of dependencies that forces some people to do the wrong things. For example, the number of papers you publish is a major factor among others:
- in receiving grants,
- in hiring you as a researcher by universities,
- in getting your papers accepted by journals.

All these force you to write papers in bulk. But, how many original papers you can write based on a set of data, analysis, and results?
Having a drone drop my package on my fire escape would be far better than dropping it on the street. Lots of New Yorkers have trouble getting packages (well, those not rich enough for doormen). Being able to specify a dropoff point would be fantastic. Shit, I'll build a little drone landing pad if I have to.
Been needing this badly for reviewing changes to legacy code which tends to require a much larger context for understanding of a diff.

Hope it shows up in GH enterprise soon!
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You must be a wife beater too. You know, spank your spouse if she/he does something wrong.
That's a very interesting scenario and for me, there is no right or wrong answer. I would never label you as scumbag because the compensation structure was setup by the management team partially allowed the scenario to happen. It's a pity because it sounds like you have a lot of potential and your skills can be better used elsewhere to improve other areas of the company. Your managers should be aware enough to realize this.

Of course, on the other hand, you could also take the initiative to try to help your coworkers improve themselves and their productivity. Time spend playing games on your phone or reading reddit could've be partially used to help encourage other members on your team. Maybe the compensation structure deters you - but I am sure some if not all of your coworkers would really appreciate your help (technical or non-technical).
You are looking for two things, not one, I think. You are looking for people who are abnormal in a select few categories (intelligence, physical ability), but also normal in all the others, say sociopathy or anxiety.

Incidentally, this is my gripe with 'intelligence' based selection systems in universities or companies. We conveniently forgo assessing people (and weighing) people's scores on categories other than intelligence.
Collaboration? AFAICT we have lots of reason to suspect that it happened at the _instigation_ of the prosecutors!

By all means, throw the book at the dishonest chemist, but I want to see heads on pikes (or at least a legal equivalent) for the justice-perverting rat finks that set her up to it.
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Don't kid yourself. There are no "teachable moments" in all-boy high schools. Just varying degrees of perceived ridiculousness as performed by adults.

I feel certain that the situation was manufactured, possibly even intentionally, but if it was manufactured "for the good of the children", I would assert that this guy doesn't know anything about much.
Wasn't HTTP pipelining supposed to fix the round trip problem circa 1999. If everyone has given up on that, maybe HTML5 needs to bring back .jar files for JS or something.