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No, most people do not want to go to a private school. Amongst many Norwegians, going to private school for lower education is looked down upon and seen to imply you're either a stuck up snob or dumb enough to need special tuition.

And going to a private school for higher education is common only if you want specialised courses (MBA) or for some reason want to study abroad but is by no means economically impossible for most families.

As for cost: Salaries are also so high that a very substantial portion of families could afford to ship their son or daughter off to even a top level private US or UK university (especially given that part of that too can be subsidised by Norwegian government subsidies, and part financed with low cost student loans from the government)

(Edit: this has been even more true the last few years, as the financial crisis has made dollars and pounds dirt cheap from a Norwegian point of view)
I've been running long running process's with PHP for well over 8 years now.
I am very confused after reading that post and spending some time looking at Amazon reviews.

1) Bose noise canceling headphones seem to be derided in the article as being "mass-market". Yet, they cost the highest and have the best rating on Amazon (299 when I checked).

2) Sennheiser and AKG models that were suggested by others in the reply section of this post seem to be in the $50 range and don't seem to be noise canceling headphones.

3) The ATH M50 is a few years old and still has decent reviews on Amazon.

I'm not sure about the author but I'm pretty confused about what headphones to get when coding.
I think Lua improves on the Tcl "everything-is-a-string" semantics a great deal: everything is a table, or a string, or a number.

The great thing about Lua is that tables - or, rather, metatable programming - is really, really powerful. I'm finding it difficult to think of an example of a common, powerful data structure that we all know and love, which can't be implemented with Lua tables/metatables. Lists, hashes, arrays, tries, trees, all of these basic things work so well in the context of the Lua table.

However, you have to learn what a table is, in Lua. You have to learn how to use it effectively. A lot of times, folks don't take the effort to understand how metatables can be used to turn your average Lua table into .. objected-oriented constructs (classes), queues, stacks, etc. But if you do make at least this milestone in learning Lua: watch out! You won't want to use any other language, ever again! :)
It is a pity that the internet is full of assholes and that they send deeply vile and abusive messages. Even Gawker Media employees don't deserve that kind of shit.

That said this was very funny.

I'm trying to think of an instance when anonymous women descended, spewing violent rape or castration threats, upon a man for expressing an opinion as innocuous as Criado-Perez's. I can think of instances of funny, political, retaliatory trolling—like when Twitter feminists co-opted the #INeedMasculismBecause hashtag, or when Rick Perry's Facebook page was deluged with questions about menses. But those are not examples of aggression, they are self-defense. They are not analogous to "I will rape you in an alley" or "Don't leave your phone at home, sweetie." They are reactions to misogyny—the same brand of misogyny that fuels internet trolling. They are women speaking to power—the same power structure that empowers and perpetuates anonymous trolls.
You could say the same about paintball where it clearly isn't true so I don't think it's an issue. Besides, it's easy to just flag them as soon as they walk into a wall and force them to go back where they entered in order to unflag.
> The price of gasoline is closer to $9 per gallon (15kr per litre), but still too high.

Despite that, note that the UK has Norway beat in terms of percent of gasoline price that goes to taxes.
Previous submission and front page discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029596
But nobody pretends they can
The paragraph is pretty Americanised ... dropped conjunctions all over the place. "we will go and meet her on Wednesday at the train station". Most of the speakers that likely learnt British English trip up over this sentence.
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right, but in reality i used that google search result to root a mac in our office.

i'm sure filevault works, but bad defaults are security bugs as well...
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Ok, but trade that off against the latency for sending cookies and whatnot, and I think the difference is likely trivial.

If we look at the headers for jQuery 2.0.3, we get Expires:Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT, which means that it will not expire.

You make a good point in the fact that mobile won't have so much room to cache, however, I'd imagine this will increase as devices get more space and whatnot - in Android 4.4 with the latest Chrome Beta, I tried a few sites I'm using CDN on and got 304 for pretty much all CDN'd stuff:

http://files.blackflags.co.uk/officenumbers.herokuapp.com.ha...

So what I'm saying really is I think that whilst you have good arguments, I think that things are continuing to get better and better :)

That said, once everyone's on LTE, perhaps we don't even have to care ;)
Or just a site that you enter court case number and track it?

No need for the drama.
> "Rather, the world of 1913 was quite like that of 2013: modern, substantially urbanised and, even as Woodrow Wilson set about slashing import tariffs, thriving on global trade. "

Good point - people were in fact using the argument that the extent of international trade made large wars between powers like Germany and the UK unlikely...
No true Scotsman? If women trolling is by definition self defense, you won't find any examples of women trolling, no?
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One of our instances rented on Hetzner got involved a few days ago. 80GB of outgoing traffic. We got blocked swiftly and unblocked quite soon after fixing the problem.
How do you use frames and windows in emacs? Even on a single screen, I've generally got at least a couple of columns up, so I can understand the utility of greater real estate. With multiple monitors, you can open two frames up, use next-multiframe-window and it mostly behaves like a giant emacs across two screens.

That said, I almost exclusively work on a 15" retina MBP and don't find myself annoyed, so I guess you're right. :)
> you have to build it yourself

With great power comes great responsibility.

Also, you are wrong about the lack of developer activity - unless you meant Zipline themselves, but we MOAI heads all know that Zipline are too busy making real products with MOAI at this point. Besides Zipline, the MOAI-using community is flourishing .. there is a de-facto effort to address the issues you mention (Binary SDK releases being one of the most important ones), and there has been a lot of progress in the last 6 months towards merging everyones' branches.

>At the very least some of them could get together to coordinate stewardship of the project, something which seems completely lacking right now.

Pay more attention to the forums at getmoai.com if you think this is the situation at the moment, because actually there is stewardship occurring by some of the core MOAI guys. The effort to pull all requests into a new branch and prepare for a community-release is definitely well under way, and you may indeed see the issues you brought up, addressed properly in a few weeks. MOAI is in the transition stages from being a proprietary (yet open) software stack developed by a single company, towards a proper community-supported effort like we all know and love. This will happen.
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Ops. Yea 1/2 not 1/20th of 1%. The .0005 number is correct, but I messed up changing that to a fraction of a %.
The biggest tax-and-subsize activity almost everywhere is children.

Maternity leave. Schools. Universities. Health related stuff is also often more subsidized and more expensive for children and pregnant women.

Norway has a negative (1.88) fertility rate which is typical of Northern European cultures, even with these big subsidies. I wonder what it would be unsubsidized.
I mentioned that I used a sound system. That is actually not quite accurate any more, since we had to make some adjustments when my daughter was born.

At the time, we were living with an unfortunate flat layout which placed the bedroom directly next to the living room. So in order to avoid waking up the child, we started using headphones (and have never stopped doing so since).

Since I had checked before buying the beamer that it wasn't too loud, using (good) headphones had the side-effect that beamer noise is now an absolute non-issue for us.

I find it enlightening how all these responses show that my setup really isn't the right thing for everybody. In retrospect, I was also not consciously aware of all the quirks that my wife and I were willing to accept (headphones, cable conduits, TV only in the evening).

Nonetheless, as beamers become brighter and less noisy (LED?), they will probably become attractive to a wider range of people.
Well, yes and no. They could make the argument that in "internet scale" (sic) that still qualifies as "few" (at least when compared to the number of open DNS resolvers).

On the other hand, the number of open DNS resolvers used in the attacks described in the presentation (slides 7/8) were around 30K, and with a much smaller amplification factor, so these numbers can still do some damage.

It would be interesting to know if there have been "hybrid" DDOS attacks, utilizing multiple spoofed-origin+amplification methods.
Absolutely. There is a ton of work going on to shoot a movie, camera angles, positioning, orientation, shaking, motion speed and smoothness. If you take this away it will be like hiring the most incompetent camera-man confined to a wheelchair to shoot all movies you watch.
15" early-2011 non-retina MBPRO with i7 and 8GB of RAM with OSX 10.9

I'm planning an SSD upgrade, within 1 year from now.
Every SCM that exists will fail spectacularly at merging two refactorings that touched the same code. You simply can't solve this with software today.

Same code is not supposed to be refactored twice. If it happens, a human with knowledge of the two refactors must resolve the conflict.

If there's a line of code which has been touched twice in two different refactoring efforts, I dont think its a good idea to let machine decide between them.

Unless, machine knows the exact purpose of the code. If we get to that point, I think machines will be able to write programs themselves :)
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There is no universal agreed upon convention whether the natural numbers include zero or not. There is a lot of tradition of it not including zero, because non-computer scientists find counting from one more intuitive. On the other hand, there are good reasons for starting at zero even within pure mathematics itself, e.g. so that natural numbers can be used to represent the cardinalities of finite sets. Zero is quite natural in this context ;-)
An extremely large number of programmers use Mac and Linux machines. Linux on the desktop is sustained to a substantial extent by a programmer audience - and you only have to look at the availability of software for it to see that it's popular among that group.

Personally, when I'm not using a unix-y environment, it's because I've been forced. Using windows as a programmer feels like having one of my hands chopped off.
Tax cuts?
If I understood correctly, this could be used to create plugins for any software? That is huge.

It could also probably be used to circumvent licensing protection logic. Will be a nightmare for many.
Papa Dijkstra wants to have a word with you:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831....
You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Are you serious ? What country is going to deliberately undermine their own existing currency by dedicating taxpayers dollars to mining a speculative currency used substantially for illegal activities. And in the process basically throw their own businesses and people under the bus.

I think you are frankly quite delusional if you think ANY government is going to do this.
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It's interesting and rare to see my university in the news. It would be interesting to build language and acoustic models for these accents to improve speech recognition, but there isn't nearly enough data to do that.
I've yet to meet a coach who can pack a 25,000 seat arena either. They usually need other coaches, a team of players, and an opposition.

Most good professors aren't in endowed chairs. Something like 1/3rd of the professors at the best schools are endowed. A state school like the University of Illinois has about 10-20%.

Nor do most of the professors bring in money through endowments and gifts. Much more is brought in through grants, like through the NIH and NSF, and from state funding. (That's a general statement. There are many exceptions.)

There's also tech transfer agreements. Consider this quote, about taxol synthesis developed at Florida State:

> In 1996, Florida State University was the envy of the tech-transfer world of U.S. research institutions. That year alone, the university's research foundation received more than $28 million in Taxol royalties. By decade's end, the university's Taxol revenue would top $200 million, among the largest patenting pay-offs for a single university in history.

That's one professor who brought in over $20 million per year, for a decade. (By comparison, the current FSU football program brings in now about $36 million in revenue, and $17 million in profit.)

And as for the coaches, very few college programs can bring in a few million dollars per game, and only the 6 playoff bowls have team payouts of over $10 million, so that's at most 12 universities with that success.
I agree, higher resolution displays is a productivity enhancer, but I also believe that saving money by purchasing a television, as a monitor, is not a good idea… taking care of your eyes is worth every extra dollar.

Just recently I went through the same issue, had to buy a new monitor for my work station, finally decided to go with a 2k Apple TB monitor, also considered Samsung alternative, but it doesn't have some of the features Apple added such as automatic brightness control and additional ports.

My decision was based on taking care of my vision, tvs simply aren't built to be viewed from a desktop distance, they are just too bright… they where thought to be used from a distance.
If they own the copyright they can also release it under the 'whatever terms are appropriate for the app store licence'.
yes. Please provide more intelligent and informative points to this discussion.
The money went somewhere, right? It was spent on something, not invested. Ergo, something was paid for that would not otherwise have been.
"AFAIK, most private schools also receive some funding by the government (if they want)."

If this is the case, I wouldn't really consider it private.
Try coming at them via a Google search for the title.
PG doesn't have time. Others do, so I introduce to you HN Special. http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/

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The fund does not invest in larger stakes than about 10% per company, I believe, so that would mean pissing off a whole lot of their own citizens too, to obtain amounts adding up to a quite small percentage of their own economy.
For a lot of devs having a third monitor for the database IDE is very useful.
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Glad to hear this! We just finished migrating a 2.3 monorail on ree to 1.9.3 a month ago. Good to know we have 13 months of coverage. I heard a few rumors lately that this wasn't the case.
It has been discussed extensively by left libertarians since the 1800s (most famously by Proudhon's What Is Property?).

But most right-wingers consider property something like a god-given right (usually called "natural rights"), which makes discussion as impossible as trying to convince an young-earth creationist of evolution.

(Though to be fair, not everyone in that side of the field believes the same. Mises is particular wrote that property is just an human device, "it is not sacred". Which makes for a good laughs when you point it out, along with the fact that Ron Paul is a supporter of the Von Mises Institute, in one of those right-wing discussion forums).
I've spend quite a bit of money on facebook ads for various of my own businesses & clients & I've basically stopped everything for a few reasons.

I can't rationalize playing FB's game anymore. With the recent decrease in page reach, you're basically paying double time for FB. Once to "get" the fans and then again to "reach" them.

Sure, we saw an increase in site activity, but it was debatable whether or not that actually increased revenue. I'd rather put my money towards users who are searching for our products explicitly or building up our own email list that we can "reach" anytime we want.

The best results we got for FB were through adroll or perfect audience that were utilizing facebook retargeting.

[1] http://www.adroll.com/
[2] https://www.perfectaudience.com/
It seems there's already a monitor which offers to upscale your 120Hz signal to 240Hz: http://www.eizo.com/global/products/duravision/fdf2405w/inde... . And the product page suggests that there's already a ready market for it, among viewers of high-res satellite imagery: apparently the blur when scrolling such images on a mere 120Hz (and high-persistence) display is notable enough to be distracting.
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They are privately owned, and privately operated. It is simply that they receive a public subsidy of student costs if they meet certain criteria.

This is quite common elsewhere too. E.g. UK universities.
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The problems I see with infix operators are:

- It's not necessarily obvious what is an infix operator

- Precedence and associativity

I think Haskell has solved the first one: with all non-alphanumeric symbols in expressions being infix operators, and likewise for alphanumeric functions written with backticks.

But precedence and associativity is not obvious, since that is something that you can customize. I think that user-defined infix operators with some severe limits on choosing precedence and associativity is a good compromise (many use backticks on functions in Haskell, and that has a default precedence).
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What do you think?
I was lucky in that others already had done it for me.
Probably, no state would do that directly, but what some state could do is too notice unstoppable spread of BTC in their territory for some reason (e.g. because of their own fiscal policies like in Argentina) and instead of waiting to become irrelevant, fight, lose all karma and all funding, could develop a guideline to save the face and satisfy greedy interests of the officials. They can do a "special economic zone" or simply develop simple regulation and taxation terms. If they aren't going to stop that thing, they can profit off it over some extended period of time instead of fighting and quickly losing everything.

Of course, it all depends on actual power structures and level of psychopathy. Good thing, Bitcoin does not care. If there's a fight against it, it'll only slow things down, not stop the process completely.
Nothing new to be honest — I figured out Facebook likes are useless when Facebook gave me 20€ or something like that for reaching first 100 likes; long story short — "likers" never actually did anything in my website, just liked it.
I thought you need to have access to an account that has sudo privileges and has logged in as root before (but don't know their password).
I see this equivalent to the RIAA trying to protect a dying business model with copyright law. This will do nothing but hold back progress.

If you can't compete on price, try something else. If this doesn't work..you might not be in the right business.
Why do you ask?

I've got a 2011 11" air, but my main machine is a Lenovo U260, which is my favorite.
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Alternatively, you could buy a nice 27" 2560x1440 Qnix QX2710 (http://www.2560x1440monitor.com/index.php?route=product/prod...), which has an excellent Samsung PLS panel and can often be overclocked to 120Hz.
Sad to say, for many programmers and other people who aren't AV types, the step up in resolution—plus the saving of over $500—is likely worth the dodgy colour and brightness. Many won't even really notice the badness. That said, some of the $600-ish mystery-meat 2560×1600 displays apparently have good display quality and so may be a stronger alternative to the Seiki.
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I've never watched for this, or even known there where 'limits'. I just make sure my lines aren't too long.

Is it common for IDEs or editors to set line width limits?
Does the character limit include tabs (I assume it does)?
That's because they'll settle out of court.
I've tried it on a 24in monitor running at 1920x1200 in portrait mode. Its great for editing text. I found that a good setup was to split the screen vertically and have 2 windows, one on top of the other. It doesn't really work well when splitting horizontally.
It doesn't even have to be a website. Phone scammers have been doing stuff like this for ages with pretty low tech. A general rule of dealing with spam like this is "if the source is unknown and it's from a pretty woman or an investment firm, it's a scam". My phone's black list is quite long.

Of course, HTML-based ones can reach a larger number of users with little investment, so it's reasonable to expect this will occur more frequently in the future.
Assuming you haven't read about this story previously, it is true that the current monarch, who is indeed a woman, appears on all currency.

However, there is also a set of other people, who rotate over time and is changed. This set ended up with no women in it, and many people (including myself) considered this unacceptable.
We don't get to choose whether the queen goes on or not.
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It is new to me, although a blank page with the words "hold down command-S while booting" would have been a better article in my opinion.
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So The Freescale IM.X platform is well documented, that's very nice, and I know there's no other company offering something even remotely comparable with more documentation.

It leaves an important question though, there's been speak of NSA/China adding hardware level backdoors to stuff. Is the fact that the firmware is opensource enough to be reasonably sure there are no more backdoors?

For example, Intel has put backdoors in the chips that control their ethernet interfaces. Would something like that be defined in firmware, or at an even lower level? Would we be able to find out if it was lower level? Would we know if Freescale did the same?
this is already very possible if you create a phone app - its even more dangerous perhaps due to the lack of expectation of spam or traps from an app (although this is a perception which is changing I'm sure), but its already there as a risk.
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