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I have a research background in robotics as well as professional experience writing firmware in C. In the past I've helped consumer electronics startups develop prototypes and bring concepts to production: hardware/electronics design and manufacture, firmware development etc. I have all necessary professional tools including a license for Cadence Allegro, oscilloscope etc.

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Recently Clojure has been my go-to language for everything from robotics, to data visualization as well as in web dev, but I'm fluent in C, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and CoffeeScript. I'm interested in both part-time and full-time positions. My email is in my profile.
What of the Python library ecosystem? Usable?
"Basically, this is the direction the Euro group is taking us. This concept was born with little regard for the economic health of Europe. In the future, any countries money or economy can totally fail and the world currency operation will continue. What is being built is a new currency system."

~ "FOA", ca. late 2000 / early 2001

From the outset, the currency was designed to be used fairly similar to any other "shared unit in common use across borders", such as meters or degrees-celsius.

Consequently, local/national government continues to decide on their country's fiscal and economic policy (and deals with their employment, debt, taxation etc. issues), whereas the currency unit is to remain merely a non-political means-of-exchange for trade settlement (as a result, identical products have widely differing prices across the euro zone, this is anticipated and accepted by the design) that is to be managed by ECB (which has NO other mandate unlike the Fed that has to worry about employment and economic recovery etc. etc.) at a steady "2%-or-below" inflation rate for a certain level of price stability across euro-zone.
Predicting food shortages, particularly of meat, was commonplace then, and increasingly common through the 1970s. Housing shortages were another theme, as was endless billowing torrents of acid rain. Turns out, the EPA actually did its job on that front and headed off a disaster in this country.
Yeah. It's an incredibly verbose document, with that key insight buried in a mere two sentences near the end:

> The simplest way to eliminate slop is to reorder the structure members by decreasing alignment. That is: make all the pointer-aligned subfields come first, because on a 64-bit machine they will be 8 bytes. Then the 4-byte ints; then the 2-byte shorts; then the character fields.
How? By lowering wages? That's the tricky part. That's why devaluation is so much easier.
Well, you might. But I think you're either having a different discussion to 'is it a good thing for arbitrary barriers exist to entering YC?', or else you're conflating heroism and entrepreneurship in a way I find a little overblown.
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The balance was not ok when I reported it. The bank reverted the transactions immediately, without contacting the merchant. It was while I was still ~2k below.
What a sexist article, everyone knows men and women are exactly the same.
QE is free money which has seeped into the stock market and housing market for a feel-good factor, but it hasn't fixed any of the structural problems in the economy.

The Bank of England has kept interest rates at record lows for the longest period of time in its entire history. That should tell you the scale of the problem.

Now, if low interest rates and QE were "good" for the economy, it would be the default strategy not the one of last resort.

Don't be so quick to rule out hyperinflation. At some point, this charade will come to an end.
Indeed and they buy german spying technology products. However I think the logical fallacy you've stepped in is that the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) doesn't want to get spied on themselves by Skype and Microsoft, maybe. haha :)

But I fully support the message here, I think that spying inside of consumer products is a sign of the abuse of power and monopoly.
It's even more important to not introduce privacy laws that are misleading and give a false sense of security, thus averting public from the core problem.

If you can be tracked you will be tracked, eventually but almost inevitably. The law could be used to provide some remedy for damages caused by tracking, but it should be introduced only after core problem with tracking (browsers willingly tag users for indefinite time with invisible tokens, in an quite stealthy manner) is solved.
Fair enough. Unfortunately my friend is MSc-level rather than PhD-level at this time. Speaking of PhD's, do you know what biological fields look good to do a PhD in?

Thanks for the answer.
Meth in America is typically stereotyped as a "white" drug. Google "faces of meth" to see what I mean. 29% of white prisoners in Federal prisons report using meth in the month before their arrest., compared to only 1% of black prisoners. Law enforcement efforts targeting methamphetamine use have traditionally targeted rural areas; areas that are traditionally white.

*"The American criminal justice system is rife with racial disparities such a these, according to a report from the Human Rights Watch. But the fight against methamphetamine in Iowa in recent years is thought to be behind a spike in the number of whites imprisoned on drug charges and a decrease in blacks imprisoned on drug offenses, according to the report.“It suggests that law enforcement was increasing its attention to meth and less to other types of drugs … Meth is a ‘by whites, for whites’ drug,’” said Jamie Fellner, senior counsel and author of the report, titled “Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States.”"

http://iowaindependent.com/2431/meth-arrests-likely-behind-l...

Knock it off with your uninformed race-bating.
If you're going to try to invalidate what I wrote by "people disagree" then justify from the text where it says that drugs should be illegal and punishable by imprisonment.
That's right for the customers side: it's a lot of personal networking and referrals.

For consultants, we've had a lot of resonance with various social media channels. It's really nothing fancy or surprising, just making a consistent effort to engage with various communities (like HN) has been fantastic.
I know very little about economics and even less about politics, but it seems to me that a currency losing power would be a much "softer" landing for everyone involved. Right now, since there's no currency to devalue, we must cut salaries and lower all the prices through market effects.

This has a very negative psychological effect to people who see their salaries cut to a third of what they used to be (rather than seeing imported goods rise to three times their former prices), and doesn't allow exports to become instantly more competitive by virtue of being cheaper right away.

I agree with you that, if Greece weren't part of the Eurozone, things would at least have been smoother.
Except that's not really secure, either.
Quinnchr, I can't reply to you, so I'll reply here instead.

This suggests to me an inequitable society. A society where at a young age women are already taught that they aren't supposed to be good at math.

The article you linked had a different take—that women are more adversely affected by pressure than are men.

The article had a different take, because I don't think your hypothesis is true: And I went through the American public school system very recently. There wasn't a single year in which it wasn't drilled into our heads by predominantly female teachers how much better girls are than boys at everything. Boys were the victim of daily jabs. There wasn't a single year in which we weren't told that the only reason girls have been traditionally worse at math is because mean boys make girls think they're worse.

This article...

http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/06/do-teachers-really-discrimi...

...mentions something that I witnessed personally. Teachers tend to despise boys who act like traditional boys. Those boys are treated more harshly. Their answers are never given the benefit of the doubt. They're mad to feel like failures.

So I think the meme of "girls are taught they suck; boys are taught they're great" doesn't apply to the United States, and opposite has likely been true since the 70s or 80s.

Sweden is an example of equality, because even though there are plenty inequitable parts of their society they actively work to make those equitable

I think they spend a lot of time and money giving special treatment to girls and women, trying to close innate performance gaps. If they wanted to be truly equitable, they'd do the same for boys (and maybe they're starting to, and we'll soon see results).

But even if Sweden were to do that, what then? They've spent a lot of time pursuing equal results, as though it's a goal in and of itself. Why should it be?

If you have two people, one of whom innately excels at math and the other innately excels at editing prose, why not encourage and foster those skills instead of fighting against them? Specialization isn't a bad thing; it's necessary for real progress to be made.
I hate to break it to you but Unicode domain names are here and have been for a while. For instance this English language page has a couple of graphs about registrations in the .РФ domain. http://кто.рф

Note that you can't just type it in because kto.p? is not the right letters and that last one is obviously not on your keyboard. But cut and paste should work fine.
Have you tried using Workflowy? More of a list app, but could allow for very structured writing as well...
I think the size issue is a red herring. UTF-8 wins some, UTF-16 wins others, but either encoding is acceptable. There is no clear winner here so we should look at other properties.

UTF-8 is more reliable, because mishandling variable-length characters is more obvious. In UTF-16 it's easy to write something that works with the BMP and call it good enough. Even worse, you may not even know it fails above the BMP, because those characters are so rare you might never test with them. But in UTF-8, if you screw up multi-byte characters, any non-ASCII character will trigger the bug, and you will fix your code more quickly.

Also, UTF-8 does not suffer from endianness issues like UTF-16 does. Few people use the BOM and no one likes it. And most importantly, UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII.
Yes and no. Yes because of Python 2.x. and yes because it is an imperative language which got stuck in the 1990's.

No if you want to write quick and dirty scripts or just learn OO-ish (OO - object oriented) programming language. OO-ish fashion is coming to an end. Im writing OO-ish because Python is not fully OO language.

Yes because of new languages like Rust, Clojure, Go. A lot of programmers moved to Clojure because of it's simple syntax and a lot of libraries which can extend language without waiting (sometimes years long) for a committee. Just look at http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1tyawn/what_are_feature... - this shouldn't be happening. Python version: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017621/why-isnt-python-v...

In my opinion Python has stalled as a language and there is no future for it maybe except for some quick dirty scripts.

Lisp was and still is a safe bet. Languages come and go, fashions change, but in case of Lisp it is a matter of a few macros and a library to catch up. Other ex-fad languages need a committee and long years to evolve.
Isn't that precisely the situation of marijuana in the Netherlands?
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Limiting login attempts is not as effective as you might think. How should it work? If you want to ban IP addresses that get X attempts wrong in Y minutes, then you're failing to realize that hackers like this normally have access to hundreds or thousands of IP addresses. If you want to lock the whole account for a while, then you've just introduced a way for anyone to lock the account of someone else they don't like.

Also considering that their Twitter and Facebook accounts were also compromised, your assumption that it was the blog itself that was compromised is a big one. I don't have any first hand knowledge on that though personally, I'm just saying.
Hardening Wordpress. That made me speechless…………

But hey, what do I know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Only the tip of the iceberg. Some men believe.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
How viable nowadays is cross-platform application or server software development in Objective-C compared to the same in C++? GNUstep appears to be the best (only) solution for the former; is that so?

Edit: To clarify, I'm asking this as a developer who does most work on Linux. My interest in Obj-C is primarily due to its Smalltalk-like message passing mechanism. Edit 2: clarity.
lol. Quoting GP:

> riot

~50% of people have already determined that voting isn't worth their time - wise up and get with the program. The jury box has been thoroughly pwned as well. Traditionally, the remaining step is the ammo box. But that lacks popular support because people are well fed, so we might as well try to turn things around this new fangled computational b0x before that stops being the case.
US politics not that social on Twitter and Facebook
> For example, for some inexplicable reason, the Jargon File used to have an entry stating that hackers tend to be libertarian. This, of course, was written when ESR self-identified as a libertarian. Later on (post-9/11), he decided that he was a neocon instead. Strangely, the entry in the Jargon File was then updated to state that hackers tend to be neocons.

The current entry:

> Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and ‘hard’ leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.

archive.org says this was the same in 2003. (Possibly it changed and changed back, but I assume not.)

From march 2000 (v4.2.2 at http://jargon-file.org/archive/ which I selected somewhat at random, I didn't try to find the earliest "politics" entry):

> Vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both conventional conservatism and `hard' leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.

ESR in 2008 ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=301 ):

> I am not and have never been a conservative. Much less a “neocon”, whatever that means.

"Hackers tend to be libertarian" and "hackers tend to be neocons" are not sentiments expressed by either variant. "He decided that he was a neocon" just seems to be plain false. Whatever the merits of the changes he made, I claim that you are being uncharitable towards him.

I'm not necessarily defending ESR himself, I just think that you're attacking someone who isn't ESR and calling them ESR. And I think this is a common theme when people talk about ESR.
Intriguing, but unfortunately there's no way I can buy pants blind off the internet, without trying them on.
The fact that there are many christians who do find religious reasons to oppose the consumption of alcohol invalidates what you wrote. You think there is nothing in the bible that is opposed to alcohol, but many people disagree. The existence of those people is the point.

This is your opinion: "FWIW there's nothing in the Bible about throwing people in jail for alcohol"

This is a fact: "Here in the south we [often] use [...] 3000 year old Judean religious texts when writing our [drug] laws."

I am not going to defend their beliefs to you; that is a religious discussion that I have absolutely no interest in. I am pointing out that those people do exist.
farming MJ in the open is easy

Yes, but supposedly being able to control the water & nutrients is good for premium quality.
Only if you feel "the entire body" is the government, police, etc.

I'd say there are is an actual country, made of solid land, tons of assets, houses, buildings, shops, companies, and around 350+ million people that are outside of this "whole body" and they can build a new structure if it goes away.

Heck, some say those all are that started the USA in the first place.
Didn't dropbox start life as a slide deck on Drew Houston's laptop until he got matched up with some (very skilled) programmers from MIT? I seem to remember him pitching it before he even had a tech team assembled.
It's lateral and vertical acceleration. You'd have to build rail tracks and roads surprisingly flat and straight to travel across them at above 100 m/s (200mph, 300 km/h). We're talking lateral accelerations of 5-10m/s², or above 0.5g. This can be achieved with very well maintained tracks only, which is a second limit to high speeds besides high power consumption. There was some discussion about this when Elon Musk published his railway ideas.
It's interesting this is making a revival in C for efficiency. When I was first learning to code ('90s), this style of "parallel arrays" was seen as a scripting-language wart. When you semantically want an array-of-struct in a bash script, you resort to parallel arrays instead, because it's what you can do easily.
I believe that if a user is in California, they will be able to bring a civil suit under California law against you/ your company.
TIL: Some people know a lot more than me about hacking. That PDF was interesting, but I only understood a small fraction of it.
For that price, I can buy 10 pairs of jeans on ebay, in a style that I like. Or I can go to the thrift store and get 50. I'll have wet ankles when I bike in the rain in a poncho, but whatever.
More information:
https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764/blob/master/backdoor_...

"Mr. Guessing 2010" doesn't know shit about backdoor (superuser.com).
As to the reading gap, of course this is an issue. Just as much effort that is put into bringing math scores to parity should be spent on the reading gap. Sweden is an example of equality

Sweden is an example of girls doing 20 points better relative to boys in both math and reading compared to the US. And the pattern generally holds for the other countries as well. Take the sum of the math and reading gaps, and that value is more stable (min 29, max 64), compared with the gaps for math (-15 to +32) and reading (10 to 72). If anything, this data raises the probability that I assign to the proposition that girls and boys on average have different natural aptitudes.
Love the Gmail article.

"We can't afford to give away everything for free," Brin said.
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I had a conversation with some friends earlier this week regarding the reduction of labor due to automation and artificial intelligence. What happens to our society when our Walmarts and McDonalds stop needing a significant human workforce?
My friend, who is a teacher, suggested that his field might be exempt from the trend. But, I imagine the purpose and methods of education will be radically different in the next few years/decades.
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Let’s say in Greece the problem is corruption. What’s the problem with Italy, Ireland and Spain?

I can't say for sure about the latter two, but Italy is famous for corruption.
I messed around with GNUstep on Ubuntu around 2011-ish when I tried to port an OS X service to Linux. (I did not touch Etoile, though, as I didn't need a GUI.) I didn't come away with a good impression at all.

It was not very easy to get up and running, the documentation was lacking, requiring digging through many mailing lists, and it didn't support Objective-C 2.0... which was a big pain since the code was in Objective-C 2.0. Some of the libraries didn't even compile, for which I submitted a patch or two that never got accepted. When I finally got the app to compile, it was rather slow, so I abandoned further work.

Looking at the wiki, it apparently still does not properly support Objective C 2.0, and does not even mention plans for things like ARC. I don't think it'll see any adoption until they bring it closer to modern Objective-C style development.
Perhaps the male monkeys are brought up differently (I bet they are), and some part of the difference is the mothers rearing style (perhaps from culture or genetics).
Seems likely. And, that's unfortunate.
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> The ECB has taken overwhelmingly the latter course

Not seeing this. Unlike most national central banks, the ECB is also not concerned with national economic issues such as fiscal balance, tax revenues, employment numbers, national trade balance etc. (This may well turn out to be a blessing in the medium-term or long run. Perhaps by design?) They're exclusively tasked with maintaining a certain level of price stability within the eurozone. Draghi even declared recently that they don't even give a hoot about the EURUSD exchange rate! Now maybe internally they do care about it emotionally, but it's not their mandate to worry about it.

Now granted, with their weight they did have the resources to buy up some 200B of "temporarily tanked" eurozone government debts in a time of crisis, which they then sold on at a later point "for a profit" (nominal, not that I think they really care, but a good for the public), which elegantly weathered "the euro crisis". Not the Greek or Spanish or Italian economic woes, to be sure. But "the euro crisis", back in 2011 or so. Done deal.

(Good thing, I think personally, they're not blanko-buying-up $1 trillion of EU government debts per year currently... sure the Greek equivalent of the S&P500 might "soar" for a year or two but it wouldn't be felt on the ground, I don't think... )
Input fields are typical DOM elements and are of course not overlooked. It's rather trivial to implement your own <MyTextArea /> component which keeps track of cursor position, etc. In fact, that's actually what React does. The <textarea /> component you use is actually a thin wrapper on top of the actual textarea (don't forget that the DOM is virtual in React so you get the luxury of these transparent wrappers).

This has serious implications. For one, the browser inconsistencies are taken care of for you, both for DOM elements and for events (which are also virtual). You effectively get cross-browser DOM tags/attributes/events/etc. without ever knowing it.

https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/src/dom/compon...