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I think we need to break all of this down into at least three entirely separate areas:

1) Computer Science, which is, in my opinion, entirely a subset of mathematics, and should be taught as such.

2) Coding, which is the ability to break a problem down and describe it in a series of simple steps.

3) Craft and application, which is everything about how to use tools, best practices for code architecture, and everything else that every new graduate is usually terrible at.

I think we could satisfy most of the world's need for "programmers" by teaching #2 and #3 in a trade school model.
New droplets are now being created in San Francisco datacenter instead of Amsterdam.
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These kind of moves are Europe's equivalent to the bus nonsense in Silicon Valley. It's the misplaced anger of a bunch of people that feel economically impotent and threatened by outsiders that seemingly operate in places they consider to be their homes more effectively than they do.

Removing freedom of movement of labour is highly retrogressive, and vast parts of the world would benefit from enabling it further, but we need to be better at getting to the bottom of this alienation at home question and how to resolve it because otherwise the fear of outsiders is just going to become more common and more acceptable.
While I don't agree 100% with what you say here, you more or less drive at why I posted it. There are some conversations about gender and tech that, while useful in their own right, also become exclusionary of other possible framing and interpretation of issues and events at hand.

"SJW", while neither an apt nor particularly nice monicker, does (to some) refer to a practicing particular brands of off-putting rhetoric that are uncompromising to a fault. I see people largely in agreement talk past each other because one person's mind is already made up in a way incompatible with someone else's experiences.

A HN commenter once suggested that agreement has become a form of social signaling. I don't know if I believe that, but it would be dangerous and counterproductive because arguments need iteration. If you can't make your case in a way that convinces people with your same goals, you're not going to convince people that don't yet share your goals.
It's a shame that albums like "It takes a Nation of Millions..." or "Paul's Boutique" couldn't be made today. I wonder what amazing albums we could have got had copyright law taken another route...
The Swiss do not want to drop the treaty - which is about much more than just immigration. They only want to keep immigration limited - as it was already the case until 2010. Going back to that level would be the simplest and most pragmatic solution.

The problem with this is that the Eurocrats see Europe's political integration as a one-way street: once you are in, there is no way back. They hate and threaten anyone who wants to go a step back - even if it is just a small one. The root cause is their fear of others imitating the Swiss and Brussels losing power. This has become very apparent during the euro crisis: while there are lots of rules for joining the euro-zone, none of the treaties ever even mentioned how one could leave it again. Leaving is just not an option in the minds of European politicians. This leaves no room for experiments and makes the EU very inflexible.
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Not gibberish then. Thanks for pointing this out.
I would say that thay rather don't want the EU tell them what to do. Which is completely understandable.
I wasn't aware of any such rejection. Nor you, nor a google search, nor my local library can find any reference to such a rejection. Furthermore it's easy to find fatwas agreeing with this. Care to point out at least one paper (that isn't on an obviously political site) ? To be honest I've read the sources on the story and several of the others and I'd find it hard to believe.

And what about all the other ones ? It's not like executing people for criticism is something islam's prophet did once. Well, compared to the thousands of people he ordered executed (e.g. the massacres he ordered around Mecca) it may not be that much.

This is not a sweeping statement about a religion. It is a simple statement of fact. Just because a statement is currently policitally inconvenient or "sweeping" doesn't affect my opinion of it at all. As you very well know, there are far more damning sweeping statements one can make about islam that are equally true.

Frankly, islam was created through a protracted and bloody war. Everyone, including muslims, agree on this. Do you find it all that surprising that atrocities happened on both sides ? The problem I have, of course, is that one side claims to be the definition of good, and went on to commit massacres elsewhere in the world on a scale never seen before.

Why do you feel the need to reject historical fact ?
I would say a controversial thing:

As Switz people are historically all from one race and they didn't have a habit of importing slaves of other races, they don't have to like other races as a group.

Of course they should still treat individual people equally because not doing so is a human rights violation and is just plain rude.
John I a curious did you inform your insurance carrier what commercial activity you were participating in before you started?
I don't get it. What's with the clouds always obscuring all or part of the pictures we're supposed to identify?
It's a good thing for them and the people selling them things but it is not so great for everyone else struggling to pay for decent insurance.

I am sure those people would be happy to spend that money and keep it flowing as well.
My recipe for the best possible syllabus for CS 103:

* Turing machine -- just the tape and making it do the equivalent of procedures so that we can compose things. Brainfuck is a valid homework medium.

* A relevant ISA such as ARM -- We can let Thumb/2 be bonus points, but the real goal is just to convey that ISA's are usually written to take the most generally abstractable things you would do with a Turing machine and do it more succinctly and faster in hardware.

* Build a function stack with the goal of understanding how procedures become generalized by calling conventions or optimized by inlining. The lesson is that we stay pure for flexibility and get dirty for raw speed.

* Introduce Scheme and tail recursion optimization. Now the whole of functional programming and the abstractions -- and their optimizations -- are opened up with a firm footing in the machine.

Turing and Church probably did write most of CS, so it's obvious that you want to relate the two to create the most generally useful bridge concepts for the rest of the long life of a programmer, that if they never let up, will inevitably touch both high-level and low-level languages.

OS's are the final frontier here, but cannot possibly be squeezed down due to things like MMU functionality totally clouding up what is what. Making a machine look like it belongs to the program is what OS's are good at, and this is a different kind of abstraction to grok than the relationship between the machine and the programmer.
I wrote in haste while the mother's article was fresh in my mind and I was still assimilating Armstrong's latter statements, and it colored my reaction. I went back to rewrite exactly that part 10 minutes later and I was locked out by noprocrast. Consider my post retracted (and feel free to moderate as you wish, up to and including deleting my account).

I still have deep problems with his statement, and I haven't figured out how to articulate them better yet. But for now, my apologies to Tim Armstrong—whatever he said does not justify my hasty and unacceptably uncharitable reading.
I have no idea what this guy is talking about, I'm more moble with better power and access to my data now than when I was in college and never more than 100 feet from a unix terminal.

I have two carry modes: with laptop and without.

In both modes I have a 8" tablet (my note taking device), my phone, and a dot grid notebook for the times when I feel like sketching on paper. Two pens, a pencil, two or three chargers (iPhone, miniusb, laptop).

That's it though. I no longer cary magazines or books or multiple notebooks or paper slides.

The weight of my backpack is half what it used, and that's with a 17" laptop. When I am not carrying my laptop my backpack is so light that i feel uneasy, a veritable Jerry Seinfeld "too light moment" like I forgot or lost something.

Furthermore, even though I often carry my entire 2tb of personal/work files on my person I never worry about loosing my computer or the drives getting damaged because my carbonite/backblaze system is constantly backing up everything with redundancy of github + server for my working files.
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> I never claimed that, read my post again.

I did. Here is what you said:

> ...and untold millions of lines of changes to the Linux kernel are kept secret and are not at all available to other Linux users or even to Linux contributors. That is exactly the sort of the thing the GPL was meant to prevent.

It's false. Code that is modified and then never released is not what the GPL was meant to prevent.
Good point on guitar, I guess I was thinking of piano, strings, and voice, which are quite popular where I live.

Sports can be cheap but in extreme cases of (sub)urban sprawl, getting to a field - or the field where an organized game is happening - is pretty difficult without a car. Also you can't really play organized, coached, team sports without your parents signing liability waivers.
I guess it's caused by Compulsive Libertarian Downvote Disorder which is triggered by seeing non-politically-correct claims while not being able to mount compelling arguments against those.
This is shady, but artists should get paid if their work is heavily sampled.
You are seriously suggesting that a professor of finance who specializes in studying high-frequency trading is just bullshitting? In a 60-page academic paper on his area of professional expertise? And your view is based on nothing other than the causal intuition of an anonymous commenter called "tutufan"? Gosh, color me convinced.

Yes, market participants on average increase liquidity. Which is why you have that intuition. But it isn't specifically true in all cases. For example, take a simple commodities market where buyers and sellers show up in person to trade wheat. Farmers show up to sell; flour-makers show up to buy. With me so far?

If I place people on the main roads into town and have them buy up all the grain before it reaches the market, I will be reducing market liquidity, because anybody who needs wheat will be totally fucked unless I decide sell to them.
I figure I am going balls deep into an internet tickle fight, but so be it.

Its not AOL's or his responsibility. If anything you can put the cost onto society as a whole. This is the type of insurance the ACA should have been instead of the crap we got. It should have covered catastrophic care, which means million dollar babies provided they can be saved.

No company should feel guilty not keeping up benefits because one or two cases blew the bank. They are not there to fix everything. Insurance is a benefit and benefits can be exhausted or become so costly that the cost of doing business means not being in business.

So yeah, it sucks. Welcome to the world. The solution is to put catastrophic care into the hands of government and let them decide who gets the care. Let employers and everyday people shop for the best care for non catastrophic care and do it across state lines. Put them all on equal footing.

So summary.
1) Government takes care of catastrophic care. They set the limits, the decide who. If you want more you buy it on the secondary market.
2) Individuals and business buy insurance from any/all provides regardless of state. The only rule is, preexisting conditions do not disqualify you. They can however put you into rule #1
I'm not sure you have enough facts to support your arguments

1) most probably if you take into account other factors (social economics ones), the nationality it's not a major one

2) as you said, the wealth created by migrants can be a net positive effect

3) many immigrants (85%) come from EU

4) almost none "ethnic ghettos" in CH

5) agree it's different. CH has about a 1/3 of its population that are migrants and they are generally welcomed and integrated (the regions that got most migrants rejected the initiative).

Beside, there isn't a unified "swiss culture". If you simply look at the languages, they are 3 different ones.
He wrote the following to a father: "the cost of replacing the thing is much, much lower." That's rude. A lot of his other beliefs (such as his belief that being a brother is just like being a dad) just show ignorance and naivte, but "replacing the thing" is a cruel, inhuman, and astonishingly horrible way to express an already thoughtless opinion.

I've met a lot of assholes, but I've never, in my entire life, met somebody who would think that's a fine thing to say.

Fuck him.
For the same reason the GPLv2 has nothing to say about patents, even though patents are used to do the kinds of things the GPL was meant to prevent.

The thing to keep in mind is that the changes that web companies make to free software are not usually for internal consumption. The changes are user-facing -- but the software is delivered via the web, rather than distributed to the users, and so the web company never triggers any requirement to make their changes available. The GPL does allow this, but it is not in the spirit of the GPL, and the Affero GPL was created to deal with this problem.
I'll be interested to see how they prevent theft of their source. It doesn't take long to get around obfuscation and such. If a person takes their HTML libs and slightly modifies the code and releases as an open source alternative to GreenSock... just curious how they'd go about combating that. Obviously they'd have to go after the site owner, but I don't think most site owners know what underlying frameworks go into their sites functionality. If they have thousands of sites using a port of their code and it was developed in India by a small team found online or something... where does the hammer fall?
When I visited Hawaii for the first time I noticed that something was very different compared to similar vacation destinations in for example south-east asia.

It's the same climate. It's the same relaxed atmosphere. It's the same hotels. People come there for the same reasons. People wear the same kind of clothes.

But the major difference is that all hotels in Hawaii have huge parking garages. It's a ten-minute drive from Honolulu airport to Waikiki, there's excellent public transportation, hotel shuttles, and taxis, but people still just rent cars, because american tourists rent cars out of habit, not necessity. It's so deeply ingrained, it's gonna take a long while to dispel it.
Fed up, developer removes the No. 1-ranked Flappy Bird from app stores
That stuff was there during the BBS days as well. I just don't buy that "seeing bad shit fucks people up forever" bullshit.
You wrap your kids in cotton and stifle them throughout their childhoods with your helicopter parenting, and then you have the AUDACITY to complain when they grow up weak and immature?
> 1. Immigrants are disproportionally responsible for criminality.

As wikipedians would say, citation needed.

Besides, the majority of immigration within Switzerland are Europeans (because this law is for quotas about EU immigrants), the majority of which are French and Germans with a good level of qualifications, a frankly not so different culture, and the same language as the Swiss. So it has nothing to do with mosques.
Rosenbaum cites recent studies (regrettably, without links) that show that "emotional harm is equal in intensity to that experienced by the body, and is even more long-lasting and traumatic." Thus, the victims of hate speech, he argues, suffer as much as or more than victims of hate crime. "Why should speech be exempt from public welfare concerns when its social costs can be even more injurious [than that of physical injury]?"

No surprise that a socialist professor wants more regulation on speech. Of course the real reason is to supress speech from conservatives, libertarians, and others he disagrees with.
For me, #94 shows up as Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Vladimir Nabokov (Mar 9, 1993). Siddhartha is nowhere to be found.
By which you mean Europe would claim that the international treaties they make superseed the will of the local voters by virtue of them being in Europe ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_(European_Union_law)
Did you really think my argument was that anything that is a lump of cells that has never had a coherent thought has no value?

I can understand a sense of loss in losing an infant at birth. You make plans for the child and are excited to meet the person they will become. It's a miscarriage. A similar loss is learning that your spouse can't get pregnant in the first place. It's not the same as losing a child of 3, 6, 12 or 24.
Tossing some of these in the trash appears to be only slightly worse than tea bags: http://myworldinacup.com/ Just ordered some to try.

Also you can get a reusable filter basket and then grind and dose like a normal person.

Was worried about the same thing when ordering a replacement for an aging Aeropress lately. IIRC Keurig's website says they care about the environment blah blah blah and have been "working on it" for a while, but no concrete promises.

It's an always-on kettle with a semi-pressurized, single-serve coffee maker attached.

PSA: nobody should buy the standard plastic K-Cups.
I'm sorry...but are you kidding me? This article is nothing more then some guy whining about how jay-z of someone else's lyrics. Regardless if it's a patent troll or not, he didn't own the rights to it and yet still made a fortune. The music industry spends millions every year prosecuting people in favor of the musicians...but now when the tables are turned, people start crying about it.
No, it's because most of his points are not valid regarding the situation of Switzerland and the point of this vote.
I don't think it's fair to attribute this to xenophobia. You need to have some soft quota because immigration involves people; and people issues are complex to manage. Absorbing 80,000 new immigrants into population of 8 million is a huge deal.

Ordinary Swiss workers will ask themselves, "who benefits from this immigration?" The 50/50 referendum result is indicative of people's uncertainty about the answer to that question; and not necessarily that of their xenophobic attitude.
Yes as I've sometimes said to my friends back home about Swiss, it's amazing how polite and well-behaved people are when they are all rich and sharing the same ancestors.

I had been in Zurich for almost a month before I saw the first black man there. Moments after I first saw him, he was arrested by four Kantonspolizie who jumped out of a van. True story.
Accountability is more important than your stack
Armchair analytics.
get some ethics? making jokes about drone killings is disgusting.
Having just travelled from the France to the UK, there most definitely is NOT free traffic of persons or labour between the UK and Europe. Or rather, only in one direction.

Try it sometime.
I would take this table with a grain of salt. It claims that Belarus is the most "immigrated to" country of all CIS (bar Kazakhstan) when really it's the most monocultural country out here. They probably failed to calculate USSR dissolution correctly and maybe have other problems.
Yes, such quotas are a pain in the ass for a startup. The company I worked for lost a foreign employee because his residence-permit was not renewed after two years.

However, I'm not afraid about Google - they have all the legal processes in place to get non-EU citizens into Switzerland that face quotas already today. And in the worst case, they can still offer them a job in another office.
yes, and a significant portion of our famous scientists studied philosophy and then laid the foundations across multiple disciplines some of which many graduate students still don't understand even though they studied them.

i know a whole bunch of people are going to argue pro specialization, but i think we need to rethink the way we teach. we've built efficient workhorse factories which we call universities, and some of the top tier ones are slowly moving away from that system.

there are also a lot of known cases where crossdomain talent has brought a perspective which led to a whole bunch of problem solving. but i'm careful with conclusions here, because we know correlation does not imply causality.

we're not teaching people, we're indoctrinating them, to a point where your sound reasoning is valueless, because you don't have a ph.d in the domain you talk about. what's tested in your university exams is not whether you're good at something, it's how good we can recite the things that have been taught to us. it's a system that carries from primary school to everything else.

somewhat related is also this gem, someone posted on hn before http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html

EDIT: you might wonder how that is related. one example: i struggled during the universities architectural classes. even though having grown up reading intel platform references and looking at disassembled c/c++ and delphi code i understood memory layouts, threading, pipelining much better than anyone else in the class. i also spent a lot of time learning basic mips architectures.

the problem was that none of that really helped me to do well on the exams. the reasoning behind it, is that class is structure in a way so that once you learn the theory behind it, you'll have a reference point once you actually need to do something in that domain. that reasoning is in fact sound, but only if we assume that no one actually knows what they want to do.

> In my experience, learning how the computer worked made it easier for me to learn to program it

yes, but the question is, do you need university to tell you that?
>“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”

Perhaps the restart time is necessary to update the shared state. Take the mind out of the universe, review its acquired experiences and integrate them into the combined soul, then reboot the mind and send it on its way.

Odd that he should be conscious for this part though. I suppose the afterlife state is equivalent to dreaming: the brain has to review and absorb the day's memories, and semi-conscious hallucinations are an interesting side-effect.
Woah, that is some epic speculation, and it actually seems plausible.
I am definitely a victim of this as most engineers would be, particularly those of us that have been working for others. We're accustomed to being handed the business need and simply told to build it. As such, that whole "does this make business sense" part of the equation doesn't come naturally for us.
You are equivocating falsely been "hacker" and "the industry"
but to suggest that it doesn't in Range voting is either misinformed or disingenuous.

It's a good thing I didn't suggest it, then.
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Sounds like a bug, that did not happen to me. (On chrome latest)
If by "artists" you mean "people who buy the rights to the work created by artists for a pittance, and then use it to extort others attempting to create something worthwhile from it", then sure.
Cars, clouds and open-source software go together
How Hackers Watch The Olympics Online
And a text-only version with a bit more player agency http://jsfiddle.net/dariusk/3Evm4/10/embedded/result/