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> look around youtube for tutorials on C

This is likely to be horrible advice. I don't doubt that there are good C tutorials on youtube, but there are probably also hundreds of extremely poor tutorials that are seductive and even highly rated because the people rating don't know better.

K&R C is excellent. I don't like overbearing advice, but "Every serious programmer should read K&R C" isn't bad as far as such advice goes.

I don't particularly like the "Learn X The Hard Way" series (maybe it is the right way, but I find it too painful), but there is Learn C The Hard Way [0].

[0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
What exactly is the alternative to cars?
>I'm less happy about excluding people who are coming into computing late, though.

I don't think she's doing that. Note that she doesn't say that you haven to have been programming since age 2, just that you have to have a natural interest in "solving the puzzle or building something." I came late to programming since I didn't have access to computers I could tinker with, but I was still putzing around with k'nex and getting yelled at for taking household appliances apart from a very young age.
The most interesting discovery for me was to compare: "cost projections: The analysts assumed that the shuttle fleet would stage at least 50 flights a year" with now known 135 launches in 30 years total which gives less than 5 per year.

The article is fantastically well researched and written.
Not "strictly worse", because if one cares about maximizing profits for the company and wages for the employees, the self-insurance route might be better overall. Formal insurance arrangements can be a real drain on resources. On the other hand, some companies choose to self-insure without fully appreciating the risks.
For the longest time I harbored the biggest crush on a girl from my high school. The thing that made me fall in love with her (and it was love -- as much love as a 14-year-old could feel) wasn't that she was pretty or cute or popular -- though she was all these things. (Head cheerleader. Literally. Dated a football player and everything.)

It was that I had the good fortune to peek over her shoulder at some BASIC code she'd written in our completely noddy, intro-to-computers class. She wasn't going to put Grace Hopper to shame, but it was surprisingly well-structured and showed she knew how to reason about causes and effects within the machine. Which is, like, the first skill that you need to be a decent programmer.

But the thing about pretty girls is that they often find it is more immediately profitable to be pretty than to be bright. And staying pretty and popular -- keeping that limelight on you -- is a lot of work. It's a full-time job with potentially ruinous consequences without some sort of balance (look at Miley Cyrus). So she eventually forgot about coding and went on to become a television personality.

My point here is that you become what you invest time in becoming. If you want to ascend to elite-level hackerdom, then you almost have to put things like attractiveness and popularity on the back burner. You don't have to have poor social skills to be a hacker. But the people who are best at being popular and fitting in are the people who invested time and effort into doing just that, just like the best programmers are the ones who invested time and effort into programming. And we only have so much time to give, so yes, you kinda gotta pick and choose.
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Depends what you mean by "about." Do you mean

1. People often attack you for some belief they mistakenly attribute to you.

or

2. What you actually say or believe doesn't matter. If people want to make up some belief to attribute to you in order to attack it, that's fine.

If you mean 1, I agree. But I would hope that here, at least, we wouldn't sink to that sort of mob behavior.
You have to be the right gender, race, or sex these days to have an opinion these days. Not judging people based on their sex would be extremely sexist!
To clarify, I asked for an example, not touted myself as the arbiter of worldly experiences.

I also asked for an example of a programmer on the level of Woz. This is an important distinguishing quality, because otherwise there's no way to know how good a hacker actually is. Every story would be anecdotal instead of resembling factual.
...and if anyone wants to play, I'm like a 1700:

http://inb.tw/chess/georgemike/hackernews1/
If carrying bags of stuff is not really a problem, then as things get smaller, we carry more of them.

What do I carry? Laptop, paper notebook, my lovely noise cancellng headphones, a charger, an external battery for my phone, a usb charger, some bits of paper. Some times I add a tablet or kindle to the mix. Other times a raspberry pi or other embedded device.

I obviously prioritise having enough tools with me to work anywhere I like with maximum comfort.

Its all a matter of priorities.
> I've never heard of a tech genius who also cared much about the qualities you mention.

How about von Neumann, famous for always being in an impeccably tailored suit? I hope he's genius enough for you.

You don't even have to go past the very first hackers to find ones that care about those qualities. There are many, many other examples.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Personal_life

> Von Neumann took great care over his clothing, and would always wear formal suits, once riding down the Grand Canyon astride a mule in a three-piece pin-stripe. Mathematician David Hilbert is reported to have asked at von Neumann's 1926 doctoral exam: "Pray, who is the candidate's tailor?" as he had never seen such beautiful evening clothes.
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I don't think you guys understand how this works. Armstrong earned his $12 million salary. Employees, meanwhile, receive health care as an unearned benefit bestowed on the commoners by the wealthy. If they abuse this gift (by having premature babies, cancer, etc.), they will be expected to make up for these extra costs elsewhere.

Blame the law for this: clearly those employees who abuse the system should be fired outright, preferably on a conference call with 1000 people in attendance. Sadly, due to government overreach, it is considered illegal.
I first read this on 4chan. I'm so glad to learn it wasn't created there... A truly life changing story.
One can always phrase things in a positive or negative way. I don't condone the FBI's behavior but I've noticed that law enforcement agencies tend to operate a bit like computer programs in that they get a lead, they follow it until they can either say "relevant" or "not relevant" and in this case they had a lead from their lab which was unresolved. So they kept pushing on it.

Forensics, as most people should know, isn't an "exact" science, its a statistical science. It is entirely credible that Mayfield's fingerprint in their database was the closest match in the database for someone who was known to be in the area. It reads like it wasn't all that close a match as the Spanish authorities had discounted it, but from the FBI's process perspective it was a "lead" to run down.
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Why not ditch the ordinal voting and go with a cardinal system? People have seen and understood the system used in judging competitions such as figure skating, diving and gymnastics for many years. Wouldn't it be completely straightforward for them to see it on a ballot? Range voting is the name of that system and, unlike Condorcet methods, it is not subject to Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Very yes. Me as well.

I got my first unsupervised access to my grandparents' computer at age 7, but with no Internet. Then at age 10-11 some foundation for underprivileged kids gifted me my own computer with free unlimited dialup and a separate phone line. This was definitely a turning point in my life.

The fact that my single mother parent trusted me with my independence was a huge amplifier, too.
There are good analogies and bad analogies, though. Good ones use relationships that actually have common elements that are meaningful; that's how they work to convey information.
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> Don't commit vendor packages to your repository, make use of Composer

But make sure you have a complete package for enduser (if you believe it's ready). This is very important esp. for PHP audience: download, unzip, upload, see "Hello World".

Automate this early, it will pay off fast.
He is cutting benefits overall, not completely, but it is still a cut. AOL decided to keep medical benefits high at the expense of retirement benefits. This is probably the right call, but the way that it was presented just made the entire thing look awful.

Regardless of what benefits were cut, citing specific instances of medical care as a cause for the cuts is such a horrendous mistake that it will be difficult for him to effectively lead. That was my addition. When your employees turn against you, and you have made such a blunder publicly so as to make potential employees not want to join AOL, it will be hard to lead. And the worst part is, it's not necessarily the cut itself that is the issue, but how it was presented and rationalized. Had he just said that healthcare costs are increasing, so to avoid cutting health benefits we are reducing (marginally) your retirement benefits, he might have been okay.

I mean, look at the way this sounds: Why is my 401k contribution lower this year? Because your coworkers had babies.

That may not be what he said, but that's where the story went.
I don't think either of us is capable of making definitive statements on the harm of women-only education programs, so I'll stay out of that.

I do believe however that it's completely and utterly impossible to improve gender dynamics without putting emphasis on it.

Using the (un)conscious (in)competence learning model [1] as a reference what you're saying is essentially that we should just go from unconscious incompetence straight to unconscious competence without doing that whole 'conscious' step, but that's just not a realistic option.

To achieve mastery or improvement in anything it needs to, at least temporarily, become conscious.

And yes, that will indeed be uncomfortable at first, but I really don't believe we can get there without it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
Indeed! This is a great example, thanks.
The hubic desktop app crashes on Fedora 20.

Basically it says good bye with:

~/Downloads/hubic> hubic main-loop
[INFO | 2/9/2014 9:05:08 PM | Ovh.Hubic.Sync.Linux.CLI.Server.MainLoop] Application starts (Version: 1.1.13.22-64; Platform: Unix 3.12.9.301)
[ERROR | 2/9/2014 9:05:08 PM | Ovh.Hubic.Backend.HubicAccountHandler.GetGreetings] Got error while getting greetings: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.Serialization, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but the cost of double spending is vastly higher than the value of the coffee.

The risk of accepting on 0 confirmations is probably lower than that of accepting fake currency or the cost of processing a credit card.
But then again you'd have to experience being Paris Hilton as well.
Ask HN: How is your visa application experience?
Is applying for visas (for travel) a painful and confusing thing or a simple one?
Do you find trouble in trying to find out which visa to apply for and what all documents have to be submitted?

Me and a friend of mine are trying to validate our idea before we build a product.
So, if you can spare 5 minutes and fill this form, it will be really useful for us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11T1IzkS2ZSWDOCQYAXEUxpDKiRExbUgrb7_k8Zedp1o/viewform

Note:
1. We know that American citizens don't need visas for a lot of countries in the world, so, we are more interested in perspective of non-americans before going forward.
Lots of people confuse learning to code in C with learning how hardware works. Its close in some ways but not all.

EDIT: WOW. I'm amazed at how many people think that C is "how memory works". Just wow. This is one of those things where you're confusing the map for the territory and ascribing value to something because its "hard". C is a fairly high level abstraction for interacting with a computer...i know that everyone has heard that c is close to being assembler...but what you are forgetting is that assembler is also an abstraction over operands. The reason i think its important to point this out is that malloc and free arent magical. Othér techniques are just as valid and the notion of "low level" is misleading. C makes tradeoffs that actually give rise to all of the vulnerabilities and stability problems in all the software that you have ever used. Those tradeoffs are REAL and just because lots of you get this macho nonsense about not using safe collection types everyone on the planet has to deal with malware. So many of you buy your own bullshit at an astonishing level...its really breathtaking to see how many of you cant see the built in assumptions in what you are saying.
Realistically, just removing the outsize subsidies driving has had for generations would be seen as an "attack" on the American way of life. Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
> Last year, his school offered a robotics class for girls only. When my son asked why he couldn't join, it was explained to him that girls need special help to become interested in technology, and that if there are boys around, the girls will be too scared to try.

And that's why we can't use sexism to fight sexism (or mistakenly enforce the same composition of the general population on self-selected subsets).
Exactly. The expectation from the outset would have been that they'd pay out less over time but experience more volatility, given the small risk pool. Complaining about the volatility is just nonsensical.

I expect Anderson understood this but had to look for a reason to cut 401K matching in a profitable quarter, and increasing executive compensation didn't sound quite right, so... the high cost of saving babies! Whadda guy.
Sometimes I feel like the whole internet will eventually turn into Gawker clones.
I think your example conclusively demonstrates that people in radically different economic and cultural circumstances have different attitudes towards their children. This is a completely fair conclusion, but has very little bearing when reasoning about health care for infants in modern neonatal ICUs, especially infants with rich technologist parents.
Neither the blog post kindly submitted here nor the comments (so far) nor the Wikipedia article mentioned in one comment mention the impossibility theorem proved by Kenneth Arrow,[1] which shows that we can't build a perfect voting system to take into account preferences among three or more candidates. As a voter in a state with as many as ten candidates on the ballot in a typical presidential election, and some amazingly close three-way statewide elections,[2] I'm surprised that the Arrow paradox (Arrow impossibility theorem) isn't more widely known. I learned about it in an article in Scientific American back in the 1970s. My state has three "major parties" that have automatic ballot access for nominated candidates, and I expect that this year we may add one more political party to the list of major parties by the rules established in state law. If voters have more than two choices, odd results can happen in elections.

AFTER EDIT: A comment posted while I was typing the first version of this comment mentions "range voting" as a response to the Arrow paradox. A commentary by an economist[3] and a problem set by a mathematician[4] may suggest to thoughtful readers here some issues to ponder while discussing whether or not range voting provides better trade-offs than our current voting system, and whether it indeed escapes the theorem proved by Arrow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/arrow.pdf

[2] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/franken-c...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24383.html

http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Not-Florida-Minnesota/dp/08166...

[3] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/11/ran...

[4] http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Summer2008/anema/approval.h...
What I was gong to suggest, with F-Droid as the repository/app store.
The irony is that France didn't even allow most withholding of heroic neonatal care until 2004+ (e.g, la loi Leonetti, etc), whereas the US regularly refused such care until 1984 and then enacted statutory allowances for refusing futile neonatal care in 1986 (Baby Doe revised). Also see the Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999 and withdrawal of futile neonatal care pursuant to it.

In fact, France still does not allow withholding of nutrition and fluids from an infant not on a ventilator, a practice that is permissible in the US when care is deemed futile.

If you want an example of a state that practices more aggressive withholding of care in the NICU, look at the Netherlands, which has a private insurance model more akin to the US. According to the Nuffield report on neonatal medicine, "In the Netherlands, a consensus had been reached by 2003 that ... Dutch perinatal centers should not normally resuscitate and treat extremely premature babies born before 25 weeks of gestation, because of poor outcomes."

According to the report, the difference between the US model and the Netherlands could be seen in that twice as many premature infants born in the US survived to the age of two, but in the US five times as many premature infants had disabling cerebral palsy.
I'm a female developer w/ a EE degree, but mostly self-taught wrt coding.

My parents were nontechnical, but I was lucky enough to have my own computer and a good internet connection starting around 4th grade (8-9 yrs old). Feeling comfortable "breaking" my computer was another thing. I was deathly afraid of breaking things as a kid (unlike my younger brother), and I think it prevented me from coding and exploring things even earlier. I think becoming a great {coder, thinker, leader, etc.} requires internalizing that at some level, it's okay to break the rules.

I eventually found my way onto IRC around age 12, where everyone posed as a 17-yr-old female from LA. I was thankfully super paranoid and fended off child molesters by pretending I was a 56-yr-old man from Texas. ;)
Yes, that's fair. She does say "women who can't code", so perhaps I'm interpreting that particular sentence too broadly.

That said, she does make more than one disparaging remark about "ephemera"...I think it's safe to read between the lines here and have a conversation about culture, given that a lot of capable people (men and women) are turned off by the traditional societal definition of "hackers".
Because range voting devolves to approval voting. Why rate a candidate 4/10 if you don't want them to win? You insincerely rate them 0/10. Why rate a candidate 8/10 if you want them to win? You insincerely bump them to 10/10.

On top of that, you then have to consider the potentially lower popularity of your favourite choice against that of the current lead contenders. Do you reduce your vote for the better of two evils so that your sincere preference has a better chance? Ugh.

I'm not trying to suggest tactical voting doesn't exist in other systems, but to suggest that it doesn't in Range voting is either misinformed or disingenuous.
It would probably work but it's only a few hundred megs I'm talking about. I logged onto my Linode and created a 588 meg file with this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=testing bs=196k count=3k oflag=dsync

Then I downloaded it and it went fine. So the problem is on Google's side.

The fact that I tried downloading the first archive so many times their service told me finally that I'd downloaded it too many times then the second archive failed around the same rough time frame. Their service is counting the failed downloads as successful, that's bad in itself.
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Don't forget:

born in childhood

(edit: I don't disagree with her other definitions. I am concerned that she's missed some key points of the larger debate, namely:

* Should "outsiders" be actively encouraged to join
the community, or should the community be insular and
inward-focused?
* Should those who simply want to make a better living
be encouraged to learn about and seek employment in
the industry, given how lucrative careers can be?)
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To truly appreciate C I think having to program in assembly first helps.

I say learn assembly first, then learn C.

Then do whatever you want.
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Doesn't look fixed; I just tried it a minute ago. I almost had to kill my browser. (Frankly, I'm disappointed in my browser that it didn't detect abusive behavior from the website.)
The problem with re-insuring is it's not one thing and its not the other. The advantage of self-insurance is diminished, and the advantage of conventional insurance is diminished also.

> it would seem responsible for a self-insurer to reinsure.

Reinsuring is sort of like being married, and not being married, at once. Many people think that sounds pretty cool -- until they try it.
Isn't self insuring generally considered more efficient for companies of this size?

I can't find the link right now but I read somewhere that it is common for large companies that self-insure to buy reinsurance to cover themselves against large payouts like in Armstrong's mythical example. The company will typically have an insurance policy for their insurance policy.
Oh, easy - bikes and/or public transportation, of course. /s

The idea of abandoning a car is silly at this point because it's just not going to happen. Maybe if urban sprawl wasn't a thing we could figure something out. On my team, I live the closest to work at 6 miles, with many of my coworkers commuting 40+ minutes. There's no complete replacement for that. Even when I was a public transportation commuter at a previous job in a different city, I had to drive a few miles on a highway to get to the bus depot. The anti-car sentiment seem to me to be localized in tighter packed cities with better public transit, which is a minority of the cities in America (sorry for being so US-centric, I haven't lived or worked outside of the States).
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Walkable/bikeable urban and suburban planning. Living closer to work. Delivery services. Scooters, motorcycles, cargo bikes, light rail, buses, cars for hire.
To say that a 12-year-old farm girl was in a "privileged position" with respect to computers strikes me as absurd.
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Actually Time Warner is kinda rolling out IPv6 support in a way that makes me think that it might not be too far away. I think I've even caught them live-testing features in my area, sometimes.

I can (sometimes) get an IPv6 address from them, although it appears to always be in some kind of weird non-routable mode. I don't know enough about ipv6 to say exactly what is going wrong. Once upon a time I actually managed to ping -6 some external hosts, but when I came back a day later, it stopped working. Weird.

http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/t...
Okay so the domain my site is run off gets 0 of 5 stars. I know my VPS provider has ipv6 support, so how do I close the gap?
The other very odd aspect of this story is blaming 7 million in new costs on Obamacare.

A large company like aol would have already provided pretty good health benefits. It is very unlikely that the ACA's provisions about mandatory coverage for procedures (such as birth control) would have cost aol anything significant.