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The problem is, repeating the article and the GP, that it can not be abused.

Your computer was defective, and Dell is refusing to comply with the warranty. It's impossible for VLC to harm the speakers on a computer that is not defective.

Ok, I like it being hard to set volume bigger than 100% at mplayer, it'll probably be a nice feature at VLC. But that's only because I don't like clipping, not because of any hardware issue.
No problem with Iceweasel once I changed the user agent string.
Here's a site that offers a fully-managed Ghost hosting solution that's cloud-accessible via a Dropbox-style app and only costs $5 per month:

https://runkite.com/

For most people, I'm not sure that no FTP access is the dealbreaker it once was. I'm not saying that there's not validity in creating an alternative designed for PHP, but this criticism of Ghost doesn't ring particularly true to me for this reason: Ghost has had a total of four months on the market. Give it a year and see if the process is any easier. I'm going to say it might be.
Even your own data completely undermines your point. All those other countries have very comparable preterm infant mortality rates when measured against the US. You say the girl "likely" would have died in France, but in Norway and Sweden (two of the most socialist countries in the world) the girl would have had a better chance of surviving at 25 weeks. By your own data that is supposedly proving the ineffectiveness of single payer healthcare.

Go back to Fox News where people don't actually care about facts if you want to make sensational arguments with zero evidence.
It's not "let's take over the world" bad, it's just a lot of effort expended on something that's of little value. Working a lot towards something that isn't any good could be thought of as a kind of bad.
There is a broader point that we no longer have the open source community we once had.

It was about filling every thing with good open source software - be it desktop, server, embedded. On desktop there was a variety of DEs, distributions, software and all that stuff. There was hope that open source will win.

But nowdays I see open source largely as a server side movement powering large proprietary platforms. Everybody is using these platforms without questioning. There is no longer anything to win. Plus proliferation of walled gardens.

What will new open source hackers work on? Ruby test framework? No they won't.
Maybe they will be hacking mobile dev, but that makes you conformist nimble enough to crawl into walled garden.

The politics regarding gender are just a part of politics out there.
You should also stop and consider, for just a moment, that if the only stories that can convince you need to be famous, you're working in a very narrow space of human experience.

It's a big world out there, and there are a lot of smart people who will defy your expectations.
"There's no massive standard library to do arr.sort() for you and you have to really think about how to implement some basic processes that you took for granted"

Not massive by any means, but the C standard library does include qsort() (quicksort) in stdlib.h
> C++ is a grotesquerie more suitable for a carnival horror show than something you want to introduce to new programmers.

I bought into this previously after hearing it constantly repeated, but don't anymore. Your point about OOP is fair, but I think there is a sane subset of C++ that is incredibly useful for teaching new programmers. One thing to be avoided is needless OOP hierarchies. User-defined types are an incredibly powerful abstraction, and makes certain programming tasks look and feel extremely natural. If you listen to Stroustrup talk about C++, this is what he tends to highlights about C++, not the advanced features. Those can come later.

C++ has plenty of warts, and I dislike certain parts of it as much as its detractors, but C++ is still an awesome language.
Ideally, as a bike commuter, that extra space would be used to create physically isolated lanes for bikes.

(Normal 'bicycle lanes' are a death trap thought up by people that have not ridden a bicycle in their life, and should be avoided at all times.)
John Maynard Keynes: Newton, the Man
themade.org teaches free programming classes to kids. We've been doing this for 2 years now, and most of the time, our ratios are 50/50. Yesterday, in fact, we had 3 boys and 6 girls for our scratch class, then had 8 girls and 2 boys for our interactive fiction class, taught in Twine.

Couple things we've learned. First, girls default to pair programming. They cluster, they work together, when they have a problem, they solve it for one another before asking the teachers. They work together and don't compete. The boys compete and try to get way far ahead of the teachers, and end up getting lost. The girls all move at the same pace except for the ones who were advanced-class level when they showed up.

Second thing: little girls are not affraid, and not any less able to do this. It's a societal thing that pushes them away. They see the girls in their classes interested in other things, so they don't get interested in computers. Instead, they get interested in facebook, not the computer itself, because their older siblings use it, their friends use it, and they then learn that computers are for socializing. Given the proper environment, they can learn anything a geek would learn, it's just that they don't get spoon fed computer knowledge, they get spoon fed facebook, Snapchat, Pokemon and Minecraft knowledge.

Third: Minecraft cuts across all genders. All kids absolutely adore Minecraft, and about 50% want to learn programming just to make mods for the game.

Finally, girls who come to our classes keep coming back. They have a little social group with the other girls, and they welcome in other girls. The boys are left out, mostly, but that's fine as they're not having trouble learning or keeping up. The girls in our classes are their own support mechanism, and they tend to become friends outside of classes.

So, learn from this what you will.
That's much better than the Clumsy Bird. Thanks for that.
He announced the company would be giving less money to employees, and blamed it on some babies, when he's earning, by himself, much more than the two incidents cost, and supposedly presided over a successful quarter.

Seems, if nothing else, a poor way of handling things. Even if you're a "tight-fisted homo-economomicus shareholder" the end result is bad, because in the end his gaffe and the subsequent publicity meant that he reversed the cuts, so the company won't get to keep that money.

I'm not against high pay for executives or that kind of thing, so I'm fine with him making oodles of money if he's doing a good job. Part of doing a good job in that position, though, is not sticking one's foot in one's mouth.

Also: I think there are certainly times when people just try and twist words to score political points, whatever the actual facts. This case doesn't strike me as one of those, really.
Because I don't trust Google with this data, and will sacrifice battery life and accuracy to prevent them having it. Frankly the weather is the same for a few hundred metres around me in each direction!

They proved with the WiFi slurping on Street View cars they can't be trusted with this stuff at all.
I currently follow this course: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

I'm at exercise 19 and enjoy it so far. I think I already learned a lot. It may not suite everybody and I don't even know if it's good, though.
Yes, the paltry wages earned by Uber drivers really disturbs me. So the job is "preferable" to working at McDonald's; except that if you deduct the cost of the car you may find you're better off at McDonald's. How did Uber become the super-hip high-tech story? By using technology to convert an (almost) middle-class wage job into roughly the equivalent of "fryolator operator" at McDonald's?
Oooh, this was an icy stab right at the core. She's completely right:

>Dump her in a situation that operates on different social scripts than she's accustomed to, full of people talking about a subject she doesn't yet understand. Then tell her the community is hostile toward women and therefore doesn't have enough of them, all while showing her off like a prize poodle so you can feel good about recruiting a females

This explains, better than I ever could, why I've always felt weird about all of the attention on getting women into programming.

As a kid, I loved programming. When I became a teenager, I got wind that it wasn't something "cool" and got spooked. For someone as insecure as I was, having a hobby that I couldn't really "explain" to normal people was embarrassing. Probably if I had known a single other kid/girl that liked computers like I did, I might have continued on that path and not been distracted for about 10 years.
We need a new kind of toys to encourage girls to enter scientific fields.
As far as I can tell, only hobbyist functional programmers try to make everything work with linked lists. Most people who write in functional languages professionally know to use the correct data structure for the job, and how to do so (the most common educational resource being Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures).
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If you've heard the overused phrase "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" the obvious analogy is intentional destruction of infrastructure results in lower population, lower population density, lower property values...

I don't know the specifics of the linked article, but stereotypically some outsider comes in, says "you have some nice profitable land here, and I have a plan to fix that...". If you'd like to experience anti-car infrastructure, we have plenty of semi-abandoned residential in the poorest parts of the inner city, and some vacant abandoned commercial space in the bad parts of town with limited parking. Of course the restaurant right off the interstate is doing booming business although there's always someone with a plan to "fix" that for them.

"We need more customers... I know, we'll make it impossible for anyone outside walking distance to get here, that'll fix everything..."

What we need is more money spent on roads and parking. Done the right way, of course. Nothing wrong with wide roads, wide sidewalks, strips of parks and trees and green spaces. Just remember where the bread is buttered, pedestrians = homeless panhandler but car = customer.
Ask HN: I'm looking for an Android app that locates power outlets
I'm looking for an Android app that instantly locates all the power outlets in the vicinity. It could be crowdsourced, and allow people to post plugs for others to find. The closest to what I am trying to find is a program called Plug Finder By MEDL MOBILE ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plug-finder-find-power-outlets/id585739377?mt=8 ). However, this program is only available in iTunes, and I am a definite Android sort of person. Since I do not know of an emulator I can use on my Android to run this program without loading my phone up with Linux, and I am not good at porting programs, I am hoping that perhaps somebody may either have some suggestions as to an Android program that will do what I need done, or be interested in perhaps creating one. And ideas?
Please look at backports before thinking about apt pinning. Mixing stable with newer releases can sometimes get tricky, while backports are actually designed to work with the stable release.

I've been using Debian stable on desktops for years now with few problems, and backports have only improved in the past couple of years.
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How Does an Elephant Scratch an Itch?
You didn't let it pass, though... You were mean to someone who

1) did something good
2) seems to care what you think and is defensive

Shame on you.
I have a similar experience, and agree with your sentiment.

I taught myself TI-Basic in the 7th grade. Then when I was really fluent in it and started hitting its limits around the 9th grade (I was mostly interesting in writing real time games), I picked up z80 assembly. Later (10th grade) I wanted to write programs on my computer, I installed Linux and learned C (not that they're related, but the hacker world really intrigued me. It also means that I spent my first "real" programming years as a member of the broad Linux community; I even submitted patches to large FOSS projects like Gnome, which still shapes me as an engineer to this day).

Then in university we used Ada for algorithms/application programming the first semester (partly because I'm French, and French professors love the fact that Ada is French; and partly for the reasons parent poster mentioned), before transitioning to C (at first for Unix programming, and then more general programming), and finally doing C++/Java in our final year (we also had a few domain specific classes where we used a different language: SQL for databases, assembly for electrical engineering, PHP for webdev, etc.).

I really like the progression I followed, as I feel like it was logically consistent, exposed me to a lot of different aspects of computer science, and forged me into a fairly solid programmer. I've tutored students whose first language was Java, and their mental model of programming/computer science was a big mess. The best of them figured things out a year or so in, but a lot of them remained confused throughout their college years.

Now I volunteer with a program that teaches kids how to program, and we use Ruby. I think Ruby/Python are great for giving beginners a taste of programming; and it's enough for the kids who don't fall in love with it. But with the kids for whom programming just clicks and is clearly going to be their field of predilection as a teenarger/college student, I'm starting to believe that C (ideally on an Unix system) is the way to go.
>money from pooled funds started going to addresses outside of those known addresses

What? It's a stock exchange. By definition the money is immediately going to go to the counter-party in a trade. So it's going to be an unknown address. Stock exchanges aren't the ones selling stock...
I don't have this problem when going to or from work, but I did have it when traveling. I have pared down my travel kit to my iPhone and iPad and an Apple keyboard, and more often than not, it's enough. I have all the entertainment I'll need during downtime between games and Netflix/Hulu/iTunes. I can type up quick stuff in any number of text editors for the iPad (I use Pages, mostly). And Prompt is an amazing terminal client that lets me connect to my server or home machine if need be. If worse comes to worse, I can use a VNC client and get to my home machine in all it's glory pretty comfortably. I'd say that combination is pretty mobile.
It's interesting that nearly everything that was wrong with the Space Shuttle was accurately predicted in this article. Both catastrophic breakups were essentially predicted (a booster failing and tile damage from falling fuel tank ice), as well as the huge cost overruns and performance shortfalls. I wonder what author Gregg Easterbrook thinks as he looks back on the Shuttle era? Having a quick glance at his article on Wikipedia, it seems he's written or said a bit more about space policy since the shuttle; I'll have to read up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Easterbrook
Anecdotally, the number of car drivers that have the miniscule intelligence required to foresee that overtaking me would yield zero benefit at extreme risk is 0.
You can become a "hacker" at an older age, it's just a more difficult path. Most hackers have spent their teenage years building up various technical skills and are intimately familiar with learning new systems and troubleshooting systems. That doesn't mean they have necessarily been programming since they were 12 but it does mean they've been "solving or building". Similarly, one would be surprised to see a high caliber athlete begin as an adult. Typically such folks have embarked on a long program of athletics and sports from the age of puberty, or earlier, onward.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562303/the-definitive-c-b...
I learned to program in python, and later in front end web development languages such as js, css, and html. I have recently started to learn about operating systems, with the eventual goal to contribute to the Linux kernel. Before now I had never touched C. I ran into very similar problems. My first C program forked a child, its child initiated a shared memory object, wrote a collatz sequence to it and exited. Then the parent read and printed from the memory object. It took over 2 hours because C was so alien to me.
Perhaps this is the kind of attention he didn't want. His Twitter timeline makes him sound like a pretty humble indie dev who is more interested in making games fun than making money. I guess the "fun" part doesn't exist when you get death threats.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40dongatory%20kill%20you&src=t...
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40dongatory%20idiot

Probably has an inbox that looks similar.
The article says that the FBI didn't follow their _own procedures_ for matching prints. But procedures be dammed because the guy had an arrest record, which was also erroneous, and a Egyptian wife. It doesn't matter how exact or inexact the science is if you aren't even going to follow your own established procedures. The irony of your argument is that they would have reached the correct conclusion if they had in fact operated like a program.

"Despite finding that Mayfield’s print was not an identical match to the print left on the bag of detonators, FBI fingerprint examiners rationalized away the differences, according to a report by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG)."

It seems they need to totally separate the finger print examiner from the investigating officers so that they can't be influenced by outside circumstantial facts.
Yeah, it's still happening for me (Safari)
I'm not sure what you mean. The first photo is a triangular island of snow; the second photo is an intersection with a lot for sale in the background; the third photo is a different triangular island; the fourth photo is another triangular island. I scrolled through all the photos and saw nothing except the trails left behind by cars making their way through snow across road intersections.

Where is the park space?
Less if you go the box-o'-cups-at-Costco route like I do. It can be economical if you don't mind just-OK coffee.
I think it's also important that she points to reasons why women stopped coming to CS early (the Barbie-beauty culture) and mentions the often forgotten "old enough to remember when they worked on teams that were about one third women". I don't think she wants to say that you have to be a bad developer because you start late, but rather that we won't get back to a decent percentage of female developers without a shift in how we treat young girls.
Assuming the parent is talking about equal maximum amplitude of the sine and square waves, the square wave RMS voltage will be sqrt(2), or 1.4, times the sine wave RMS voltage. And since power is proportional to voltage squared, the square wave will carry sqrt(2)^2, or 2, times the sine wave power.
> pedestrians = homeless panhandler but car = customer.

This isn't inflammatory at all... not at all...
Besides the obvious alternatives in cities, having more efficient cars (i.e., self-driving cars that can algorithmically ease congestion and find efficient ways to carpool) would be a big step forward. Take a drive on any American highway and you'll see the amount of cars with a single occupant is overwhelming -- what a waste!
Silicon Valley meetups and hangout spots for coders / events etc.
I have travlled from Russia to SV and am looking for a resource of list of resources that list interesting events / social places where I can socialize with developers of various backgrounds.
TIA
> Living closer to work

You better fix the housing situation first in some areas (cough Bay Area cough).
"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."

No, you really don't. You believe this because it's what you've seen around you, but that's a selection bias. Someone else on this thread pointed out that Von Neumann was an exceptionally stylish guy, but he's far from the only example. Only in the peculiar little world of computer programming do we seem to equate slovenly behavior with competence.

One of the great qualities of smart, capable people is that smart, capable people tend to have a lot of different interests. There's no reason that you can't be attractive and smart.

"Specialization is for insects." -- Heinlein
skj was trolling by changing the common definition of exponential by saying the exponent could be 1 or less than one.
They actually temporarily broke Jabber support and then put it back on when people freaked out. I have noticed though that when I have hangouts conversations they don't seem to make it to my Jabber client...
What happens when you try to unsubscribe from Nintendo
Don't forget Imprisonment. There are more people in prison in the US than anywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
So are you admitting that your original point about single payer healthcare is totally BS? Because the UK has single payer and apparently you think they do a decent job with this situation.
Yep. I wouldn't be much of a technologist if not for computer games (to get me onto the computer), and vast quantities of unsupervised and unfiltered internet at a formative age.
Walkable City and Happy City are also both fairly good books. Walkable City is better in terms of suggesting actual changes, but Speck's tone is unrelentingly unconstructive. Happy City is better on tone (passing a low bar there), but the meat of the book is in the title and probably better captured by Enrique Peñalosa's TED talk.
I don't believe there is anything 'weird' about the tie-breaker, it's a pretty standard technique - local elections, tournament tie-breaking, movie night voting. What's weird about using second and third choices to determine the best when there's a tie for the first choice?

What I think is really weird is why would a system put much weight, if any at all, on someone's 4+ choice? We might be coming up with a result that received the most points, but are we actually coming up with a result that the most people will be happy with, or is it the least boring thing that people will put up with?
I don't agree. Having unlimited access to technological resources is great, I don't think anybody is denying that.

But with unlimited net access also comes extremely violent videos, social networks with all kinds of shady types hanging around etc...

I really don't think it's responsible to let a 9-12 yo alone on the net in their room. Enabling them to access the net easily while still supervising what they do, giving them advice on how to use the web, find what they want etc... That sounds reasonable to me.

I may be a bit bias because while I consider myself a hacker I didn't have the net before I was 18 at home. My parents didn't care for it, only when I moved to my own studio did I get an internet subscription.

Before that I would use floppies (and later USB sticks) to download stuff from the high school library's computers and buying programming books. Didn't stop me from learning C and writing games on my TI calculator.

Maybe I'm just a bit paranoid, but on the web you're always one click away from a video of someone being burned alive or decapitated with a chainsaw.
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