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It's fairly common for programmers who aren't immediately intoxicated by mathematics to go to university and be interested in but ultimately confused by this stuff. In the workplace, one is relieved that those subjects turn out to usually seem quite divorced from the day to day work of programming.

About 12 months in, you (hopefully) realise that those concepts are actually pretty crucial, and the extent to which you can succeed as a working programmer is the extent to which you can see the application of those abstract concepts in your daily work. The good news is, that gets much easier with real world experience. You'll go back, reopen the books and say, "oh, it's just a stack. fine."

The exception to all of this is State Machines. They are the most important thing. If you see something in your code that smells like a state machine, for the sake of humanity, please, make it one explicitly.
Things I've bought recently and other hacker types might also really enjoy:

1. 1 year subscription to Silvrback blog: https://www.silvrback.com

2. A Bitcoin. http://www.coinbase.com

3. Brothers Karamazov. http://www.amazon.com/The-Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevs...
the number of tests should bother you, especially the atmospheric ones. People do epidemiological studies of industrial chemicals and their effects on cancer rates. Nobody does the epidemiological study of how the atmospheric tests affect cancer rates. Because there is no negative control.
it's hard to measure deterrence. this is the moral conundrum. (I still think the NSA has stepped well over the line)
You are confusing controversy with confrontation, rudeness and hate. Also, the inanity of comments has more to do with the reach of the audience rather than anonimity. The anonymous trolling in news sites is not worse than the author-signed YouTube comments. And we all know the best comments are here on HN, anonymously.
> and the cost of policing this theoretical balance of power costs a hell of a lot of resources that could be better spent doing more productive things.

I don't think there's more productive use of resources than maintaining peace between big nations.
Sugru (which I think is a great gift all on its own) have an alternative Christmas list here, focused on things that will last and are easily repairable, plus various other things interesting for a variety of geeky reasons.

http://sugru.com/gift-list
>Think about THAT for a moment. It took government A BILLION DOLLARS just to make a website that the private sector could have delivered for A THOUSAND TIMES less money and in a third of the time.

Well, I don't know.

The private sectors seems willing to pay 3 BILLION DOLLARS for a BS message/photo sharing app (Snapchat) that one could have built in 6 months with 2-3 man years of effort.

Compared to the trivialness of that, the healthcare website is rocket science.
That's standard policy for every country I know of. That's just how visas work.

When you get to passport control in pretty much any country, they evaluate anything that might be suspicious, look at your passport stamps, ask you for explanations, interview you further... and have complete control to send you back to wherever you came from, and not let you in.
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Is it necessary to get every cert? Getting the CAs to participate would be the best way, but it seems there are workarounds that will result in a large number of certs to be listed, though not all of them:

"Google is currently operating a Certificate Transparency log, and we are filling the log with certificates that we retrieve while crawling the web. We are also actively working on monitoring and auditing software."

http://www.certificate-transparency.org/faq
What's so incredibly fucked up is that its left to you as a guerrilla-hacker-promoter to evangelize a model that should have been used in the first place, and already adopted long long ago in the second.

Good for you for doing the work, though. You rock.
>months or years after the event, it's not generally going to be a big deal

Strontium-90 [1] has a half-life of 28.79 years and gets concentrated in bones causing bone cancers and leukemia.

Caesium-137 [2] has a half-life of 30.17 years and concentrates in soft tissues.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90

[2]: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/wessells1/
> Justices sitting on the Supreme Court agree, though not all of them.

Are you the person I previously had a discussion about originalism with on here? I linked Posner for someone a month or two ago; might have been you.

/does search

Yeah. We didn't come to any agreement. :P
I think it's a good idea to give something that the person would never buy, something totally different than the things they encounter on daily basis. I got an art book once - 'woman as an inspiration', a collection of famous paintings depicting women. I loved it and I am pretty sure I would never ever buy that myself. I also love gifts that you do - I got a trip to Valencia once, that was pretty cool.
One thing that fascinates me is Linkedin Groups/Forums. People post the most outrageously sexist opinions or have kindergarten level fights with other people there; all connected to their real names. It is not as bad as Youtube comments but it is not clear how all these people don't have a filter. I guess only time will tell if Youtube comments get moderated due to the real name connection.
I'm in exactly the same position; ordered mine yesterday.

I also think this is a smart strategy for Google to take against AT&T. $180 makes T-Mobile's $70 deal very accessible.
Yup. The test partial test ban treaty was signed in 1963 by all the nuclear powers at the time - everything after then, US or otherwise, has been underground, with the exception of, I believe, India, who was not a nuclear power when the treaty was drawn up - india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century.

This was done specifically because they realized they would collectively make the planet uninhabitable if they continued.
Doesn't work in practice, though - you end up with schools "teaching to the tests", to the detriment of other unscored qualities.

The obvious solution: more tests, and more bureaucracy. By the time you've got enough tests you might as well have a state-run school.
My experience as a freelancer tells me this is not always the case.

Besides, even if it is, knowing when a particular freelancer is available still is useful - isn't it?
Here is how:

First become a pg in your specific area, someone whom everyone in this specific industry sees as highly knowledgeable, good-networked and.... for SW choose a good one suggested here. Use hnsearch to find more (for example USV, lobster.rs, reddit source code)
Steve Sailer's PISA analysis is indispensable in any discussion of PISA scores[1][2]

[1] http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/pisa-which-countries-not-...

[2] http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...
I was referring to exactly this sort of FUD. If there are conflicts between the nations and cultures of the world, the casualties can rest no blame on technologies or weapons, but on the ignorant attitudes and behaviors of people.

'nuclear storm' and 'religious nut job' are meaningless phrases designed to illicit fear and agreement with your viewpoint, not legitimate arguments.
Thanks for the details. If you were able to make working projects as a hobby, I think competency shouldn't be a problem. You should already know the basiscs and since you're intersted in what you'll be doing, I think you'll learn fast enough everything you have to know to do a decent job.

In a lot of fields your reliability as a worker and ability to collaborate will be valued at least as much as technical skills. You might get weird mixes of management and programming jobs, but it might be a good way to start as well. I hope you'll find what suits you.
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Case in point, eponymous comments tend to be content-free and rude.
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2011 a serbian film. They only reversed 300 film bans in 2003. It is illegal to 'insult' religion there so if you're a critical cartoonist or author expect to go to court and defend your art from censors. The last book censored was Flemming Rose’s book “The tyranny of silence" and in 2009 they censored a stand up comedian for what was silly satire.
I use my name when signing up to things (not as a username, but when First/Last asked for) because:

1. Builds a brand of me.
2. Following from #1, it reminds me to post things I want to be read that I would want my family and myself to be proud of.
Yup, sure thing - I'd like to add tagging for descriptions of skills.
Not hardly.

The lessons are:

* If you assault a minority... don't be surprised if s/he assaults you.

(My point is... we only have one side of that story... so we can draw no conclusions as to what happened. Maybe it's not necessary for you, but I would like to know from the other side WHY the minority assaults a person before I draw conclusions. Kind of why I laid out multiple options of what may be necessary depending on what happened.)

and

* DO learn from your own experiences... but DON'T expect society to take on $40K a year obligations to make your experiences pleasant.
> It does sound familiar, I'm (often) an anarchist. You do realize individualist anarchists (like Tucker) are still socialists, yes? And Tucker still subscribes to the labor theory of value?

Not really, he was an individualist anarchist that supported private property and a free market economy. He wanted some limitations on land property but all considered he was more of a libertarian than anything else.

> You're criticizing Smith or Ricardo here, just like Marx is.

Nope, Smith says that the theory is only true in a primitive society, not in advanced ones where the value includes the cost of means of productions to the owner and the risks taken by the owner. Marx omits the fact that not paying entrepreneurs extra for the risk they take will take away the incentive to take those risks in the first place and turn a country where no one has an incentive to work and creates scarcity as productivity decreases. This has happened in every communist society that has tried these Marxists policies.

You're young and marxist, I was there too once :) Try to read a bit more of Locke, Leoni, de Jouvenel, Spencer, JB Say, Bastiat, von Mises, Hayek etc. I'm sure you'll get there too, it's a long and hard road to get out of Marxism way of viewing things, I know, I'm French, good luck to you.
>Regardless of which lines one did not to choose to be drawn around them, not everyone has an affinity for them

Yes -- there are always selfish pricks, who think that they should have a say in if they'd have affinity to their family or society or fellow humans.

It's like seeing a child drowning and saying, "well, I don't know this kid or feel anything for this, so why should I do anything to help it?" -- instead of just jumping in just cause it's a fellow human.
No, if I borrow your car (as a loan, with 100% interest) and refuse to pay it back, the court can seize the one car car, or order me to pay restitution in dollars. If I offer the dollars, it can't compel me to produce another car or give you a piece of my house instead.
It's pretty simple to sart off with php/mysql. Paul Graham does a lot of data mining on it for moderation (he made applying naive bayes to spam filtering famous a while back).

If you don't have programming skills you're better of off just starting a subreddit. The hard part in these is building the community.

A better strategy might be to find a subreddit with a community and try to take over it somehow (communicate with mods or pay them to take over).
The concern isn't that they are producing nuclear fuel.
It's that the plutonium needed for nuclear weapons is a by-product of those reactors.
Plutonium isn't naturally occurring on earth - the only place to get it is from a reactor - either yours, or buy it from someone else who has one.
Man, I know. It used to be most text on the Internet was 16px or similar, and everything was legible.

Now you get people putting up blogs with 11px body text, and blogs with 24px body text. It's truly bizarre. I find myself having to change my browser zoom more and more, per-site, in order to make things a normal, readable size. Lately it's been more zooming out, with certain bloggers deciding to adopt grotesquely large font sizes.

I get that "breaking convention" can be good and all, but sometimes convention works pretty well.
As would "run for underground shelters", admittedly.

But then you're assuming reasonable and conscious plebes. Personally, I'd readily picture rednecks going "Meh, they won't finance these shelters on my dime lest it turn into yet another .gov fiasco, and I wouldn't budge anyway because .gov is just scaremongering us into living in rabit holes! I'm ME and I'm invincible. [Roar!]"

Plus, your story doesn't say if whoever goes for a subterranean shelter or ducks eventually digs her way back out. (I'd hope we never know if it does.)
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If I may ask, do you play any pc games while using this keyboard? I'm not a gamer myself but someone I might buy this to is.
I don't think people's private lives are the business of anyone else. It's not the government, or academia's job to force or convince men to do more housework (or women do less).

The argument that they would give is that actions of individual in their private lives have effects on others, in particular contributing to a common culture, and so as a society we should try to shape this culture in positive ways.

My argument against this is that our culture should reflect the beliefs and values of the people as a whole, and not the elites. The only legitimate role of the government in shaping culture is to remove the excesses that prevent people from exercising their legal rights. E.g. cultural views that certain kinds of violence are acceptable, need to be curbed because they make punishing the perpetrators of these acts extremely difficult.
It's standard policy, but it was introduced in an age when checking people against a database before they even get on the plane (as the US and many other countries now also do) was not a feasible option.

These days we should be able to pre-clear people accurately enough that passport control at destination should be a formality.

(Also, my country for one does not hassle their own returning citizens at immigration the way the US likes to.)
Thank you for the sane and argumented response.
> With these definitions, what's your problem with the NAP?

Those aren't definitions.

Is it force for someone to own a gun? Is it force for someone to reveal that they're carrying a gun? Is it force for someone to draw a gun? Is it force for someone to fire a warning shot? Is it force for someone to point a gun?

Is it initiation for someone to attack a third party? Is it initiation for someone to attack a friend?

Is it force to covet your property? Is it force to touch your property? Is it force to enter your property? Is it force to illegitimately acquire your property? Is it force to manipulate your property? Is it force to develop your property's uses?

Is it initiation for someone to threaten you? Is it initiation for someone to threaten you abstractly? Is it initiation for someone to threaten your property? Is it initiation for someone to threaten your friends?

That's off the top of my head. Gimme a bit, and I'll "think about it".
Everyone should just use some form of a Pig Latin user name. Maybe then add some spice to the name as well.

This way we can reasonably claim our good reputation if the result of our actions turns out ok, but if not we can borrow from each other and all get second chances.

I'm pretty sure Pig Latin will fool the NSA too. :)
To minimize cost. A better example than education would be carbon emissions. Suppose we want to reduce our carbon emission to X tons per year. If we auction off X credits permitting 1 ton of carbon each, the market will find the cheapest way to reduce our emissions to X. Simply being able to measure emissions would allow us to reduce emissions (say, by requiring all companies to reduce by Y%), however, this is almost defiantly going to be more expansive.
> That's not what pluralism is. The key is in ensuring that minority opinions are heard and reasonably considered, not "upheld".

I disagree, but only slightly. Civil liberties are upheld on Constitutionality, on strict (or in today's society, intermediate) scrutiny. This means that the rights of minorities are to be upheld, unless there's a really damn good reason why they shouldn't be. Religious freedom is held fairly paramount in this country, but if I established a religion that allowed me to kill others, it would not be, because of its conflict in relation to the rights of others; it wouldn't uphold even strict scrutiny. However, in regards to gay marriage, the Winstead case was upheld because the state could not even issue plausibility of a rational basis for why the rights of gays should be curtailed. In short, it didn't harm anyone, and as such, the state could not curtail her civil liberties on grounds of Constitutionality.

> Nothing in the Constitution actually says that people have equal rights.

The fourteenth amendment says exactly that, actually. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

> That's why, when they tried to write an amendment to ban gay marriage, they didn't have to include any deletions, because it would have contradicted nothing.

That's not really why. I've got another very long argument on here about this subject, but in short, the legal theory behind that is implied repeal, or "leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant", which means that newer laws supersede older laws where they conflict with each other. As a result, a new amendment needn't specifically repeal a prior provision of the Constitution to have full weight.

> Gays should have rights because we say they should, and if the Constitution doesn't, then maybe it fucking should.

I disagree that it doesn't, but if it should (and I agree that it should), there's a ratification process for that, which means that it can.

> Your error is that you think moral opinion is static.

Respectfully, I disagree there completely.

> but the last several years have been full of "LOOK! GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT EVIL! ISNT THAT GREAT!"

And the problem is that the Constitution has been inequally applied for so long that we even had to. It should have been de facto applied as a matter of course that of course they have the right to marry. The problem is that, for too long, people weren't advocating for gay rights because they had moral objection to homosexuality. Whether or not someone is uncomfortable with someone else's sex life should not give them the authority to disallow them from exercising that behavior in whatever they see fit.
I use my real name

[Accessing anaphor's HN user profile, which is basically blank]

Your real name is anaphor? I have disclosed on my HN user profile what my birth-certificate name is, and I have put up links to a bare-bones explanation of where my screen name (which did not originate on this forum) came from. Eventually, I think, all roads from my various screen names, some of which were mandatory, and others customary, in the online forums where they originated will lead to my real name. I have always used my real name on every page of my personal website, since 1995.
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Oh please. As if everyone going to an IVY League (or similar) school is there because of legacy or earning power of their parents?

"that had more young people who were not there by virtue of legacy or earning power of their parents"

I think that's a huge leap.

Not only that but the IVY League schools have a large number of students that are there on scholarship and are given a great opportunity.

Harvard (as only one example) gives free tuition to certain students:

http://politicalblindspot.com/harvard-university-offers-free...

He can and should teach wherever he wants of course. But to cloak it in some kind of higher purpose or respectability as if he is better than the person who decides they do want to teach at a particular prestigious school I just don't agree with that.
Domain selling is a long game. In order to make any money you'll be waiting a long time for someone to come to you, who is desperate for the name. If you want to offload it asap, don't expect to make much more than you paid for it.
ANSSI is essentially the French NSA. It's a fair comparison, even though the agency is brand new (they were hiring en masse a couple of years ago) and has a seriously small budget.

I'm amazed that they can run a CA and that nobody find this odd.
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Ah, I didn't know it was proposed to relocate. What would be the benefit to having a convention centre away from built-up areas where it's even harder to get to (or get away from..)
I think you're probably right about the founders intentions, but I think they were wrong about the speed at which government should be able to move. It's not an easy balance, and there is a real danger of government being too reactive, but I think (like you, just an opinion) that the Constitution is too far the other way for our current society.

edit: wording
It doesn't take much digging to find sources older than that, really. ;) For instance, you can check out my own post about it at http://www.clevcode.org/cicada-3301/, originally written mid-January 2012. The oldest comment on the post is from 2012-01-14. There were articles written about this back in 2012 as well btw.

PS. I'm the Joel Eriksson that was interviewed for the article in question.
I'm having trouble getting the examples to work on the VirtualBox VM. run_dha_example gives me "None" every time. I've ran the client.execute with --timing=True and --pretty=False with the same results. Am I doing something stupid? :)
Was it me? Link me. I don't remember it.

Just so it's said, neither of us has to be right for our opinions to be equally valid. And regardless of whether or not we agree, originalism certainly has validity in arguments of law, we're just disagreeing with whether or not it should be the standard we hold highest.

I'm not saying that necessarily we should.
As I mentioned elsewhere this was just the first one off the top of my head.
Where was this n weeks ago, when we were designing that touch-first interface?
This often backfires. My MIL got me scented candles. WTF?!
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Almost every setence in this article needs a "citation needed" marker. Also, white != English. In conclusion: please stop posting this drivel.
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Nobody. But in the end, the disadvantaged will give themselves that right of their own accord if they have nothing left to lose.

Why do you think poor people resort to crime? They've made the calculation, and as far as they are concerned, that is their best option at the moment.

It should be in everyone's interest to at least provide the poorest members of our society with enough support so that they don't get that desperate.
Brilliantly simple. I'd love to see some permanent/freelance and location filters for employers though.
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I feel for the people on the "front line", so to speak, but if it does anything to add to the chance that internally the NSA will recognise that no, what they are doing is NOT ok, then I am glad for it nonetheless. They need to feel it from every angle, including internally.
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