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I guess the important part is that it should not be a requirement. Offering optional courses on products, maybe, but don't give any credits towards a degree.

After all, why do you expect to be taught photoshop? Because it's a de-facto monopoly! What is one of the reasons for it being a de-facto monopoly? Because it's being taught (as a requirement) in schools! That's positive feedback supporting that de-facto monopoly, and that's bad, as it presents a barrier to entry of new market participants. And it's highly questionable that it is good for the students that they get to depend on a de-facto monopoly for their work, as that, for example, probably makes it more expensive for them to work in the field.

For github, it's similar. Teaching git is perfectly fine, obviously, as that is free software, so the knowledge that you gain there you can use without any restrictions, teaching github is not, as that makes it easier for github to gain customers, at the expense of its competitors, and makes it more expensive for the student to become a customer at a competitor.
And if you need a Lisp that is nothing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
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I'm not convinced they were a FB employee, as I'd expect better spin. And commentary. Especially given the target audience of this site.
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You are lucky if you've never seen a methodology misused or misapplied. I have seen it many times, in my own work experience and in the failed projects I've taken over.

I'm not sure how you got the idea that I'm anti-intellectual. My intention was to express my own opinions and experience and start a discussion. I wasn't trying to wave anything away.
Great initiative, I've shared & supported it. But is compiling a database of (full) names and email addresses of internet dissidents really wise given that that's the very medium these organisations are abusing?

And would it be enough to deter a significant number of people from putting their details in and showing support?
Pretty much this. It's a variant of the "10,000 hours rule" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

I'm like the OP's brother in that when I started EE, I had already been tinkering with circuits for about 7 years. Obviously, in labs it was a huge help, but it also gave the math and all the abstract concepts learned in class some relationship to the real world.

Having the background means you can glance at a circuit and immediately know that a certain resistor is sized too small, or hearing the high-pitched whine of an inductor means that may be the problem with your regulator. In short: build lots of different stuff, have it blow up in your face, and learn something from the experience.
In this case acronym is not being used jargonistically, it's being used to avoid writing out "Proto-Indo-European language" and perhaps more importantly acts as a useful indicator that this is not a novel concept in the field. It is seen frequently and unambiguously in any discussion about linguistics.

I recommend you avoid throwing around accusations of laziness: if you're genuinely not aware that PIE stands for Proto-Indo-European language, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIE acts as a perfectly good source.
Dutchmen here. No you cannot have or grow plants. This is still illegal.
They might shelve the case when you are having 5 plants or less. But above 5 they always make a case of it.

And yes Ketamine (Special K / Vitamin K / Kokaine) is used as party drug, but alcohol, weed and nicotine are used most followed by XTC and cocaine.
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And the grammar is probably a lot less obvious. The classroom experience teaches most of us to look for things like adfixes (prefixes and suffixes) and "parts of speech" and call that "grammar", but grammar is much more than that. In a language like English, for instance, stress, intonation, elision, contraction and "white space" all have grammatical significance (with rules for use that evolve over time, have dialectical variations, and are almost never taught directly). Squiggles on paper (usually) don't capture much of that.
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Ketamine is certainly not new (on the street or other). And as it is an anaesthetic, I highly doubt it would be used to prevent passing out.

So yeah... you got the wikipedia link right
That adding just two contacts each day for a year leads to 730 new contacts might seem obvious, but sounds pretty motivational. (I personally don't have any more takeaways from this article, though.)
Thats what it seems like to me too. Can someone explain how this is not just another slacktivism thing? Hashtags and banners on a website...
It's not little - it's quite comprehensive. Excellent job done. It's explained quite well in a very enjoyable writing style.

I think anyone who knows enough to add a banner to a webpage can work their way through the document.

It's a good idea to promote it as an alternative because from the outside at least, it seems freedombox has lost momentum since the privoxy release, even though the idea is sound.
Indeed: they only take calls from their own constituents. I, as an Oregonian, will be ignored if I call a representative, from, say, Iowa.
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EU law doesn't protect gay people, to my knowledge.

The EHCR does.
Your observations of dutch being closer to English in some way than German, is correct. However, saying that Dutch is mix between German, English and French is quite wrong (disclaimer: I am not Dutch).

English, Dutch and German are all classified as western germanic languages, meaning they probably derived from a single ancestor language some time ago. Note that 'germanic' has nothing to do with German or Germany, a common misconception because the two words are similar in English.

Dutch is often more similar to English because German underwent the so called high german consonant shift (essentially changing t -> s or z, p -> pf and some others I think), in which Dutch and English didn't participate. There are some words that highlight this quite nicely:

english dutch german

appel appel apfel
plough ploeg pflug
better beter besser
toth tand zahn
I curate a collection called "About Data". You have no idea what kind of submissions I get. They need to clean up the site already, too easy to start spamming collections and post links out there.
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Glad to hear! I know how you feel, seems like all I do is look at GTFS feeds.
It is treat as a "Tin Hat" issue, or a Occupy Wall Street movement. The people in my circle (several hundred) see this as a non-issue.

We have an issue of education and clear message. Especially how this counters the Constitution.

Maybe a push for everyone to read "1984" :)
Glad to hear - hope you find it useful!
Why do you assume he meant it in a deprecatory (is that a word?) way? By analogy, when one says Lisp has no syntax it's not meant in a derogatory sense, on the contrary.
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Using "sir" everywhere you'd say "you" feels like the same sort of high respect that merkitt was describing in Sinhalese. I think the reason it comes across as rude is that the only context in which you'd be likely to hear someone do that in person is to mock. In the same way, some men become offended if you refer to them as "sir" at all, even upon first greeting, possibly out of a suspicion that they are being mocked.
And let me guess... you get great results with your Facebook campaigns? My marketing teams have spent a lot of time with a variety of advertising campaigns. The Facebook has always been by far the worst, an order of magnitude worse than everything else we tried even though it's supposed to have greater targeting ability. Snarky comments on HN aren't going to make me believe that Facebook advertising is anything but overpriced and overhyped. Please present your evidence instead of assuming everyone is an idiot.
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Well I guess students are supposed to figure out the things they are not taught for themselves maybe with a little bit of google-fu but i suspect the amount of things the professors require them to figure out requires more time then they have to the next course.

I regard universities as the pace you go when you already know most of what you need and you just need to get the papers to prove it maybe get better in the areas you missed.

But if you into university not knowing most of what they are going to teach you you are going to have a hard time there's just not enough hours in a day.

That's how i see it anyway because every time i learn something i usually end up researching more then i need for that specific assignment and end up spending an entire day on just one thing maybe even more.
This is quite an instructive thread on why it has taken so long for sensible drug policies to be put in place around the world. One person makes a generalization, another person counters with a broader generalization, someone throws in their n=1 experience, and now suddenly we're off the topic of drugs and onto dictating what is "reasonable" discussion for a public forum.

The bottom line: you are responsible for 1) your own intelligence and 2) your own body. Having done research on Ketamine, I was well aware that 70forty's comments were inaccurate, but I chose not reply because he may very well be right by his own definition of "safe" and "non-addictive" based on his knowledge and experience. I would hold anyone who chooses to try any chemical to the same standard -- do your own fact-finding, draw your own conclusions, and be your own authority over your body.

Suggesting that we should suppress any comment that has some remote potential for catastrophe, though, is a bit much.
> "it would be (IMO) pretty foolish to turn down double the salary"

Why is that? Is life always better with more money?

If the OP is happy with the amount of money he is already making, why should he look for ever-higher salaries?
The fact that the Angles and Saxons were from an area that is currently Denmark means nothing. Territories, country borders and the languages and cultures occupying them have changed significantly in the north of Europe after the collapse of the roman empire to the present day.

The angles and saxons spoke a western germanic language, whereas modern danish is a northern germanic language.

EDIT: as a side node: Frisian is the language commonly regarded as being closest to English
I don't think they are marketing moves either. But I think the reasoning is right, he did consider the money he will still earn in his decision.

By the end, I guess he would make more money keeping it on the store (hard to find a math where this 24 hours peek would pay off a few more months of declining downloads).

So I guess he did some math and thought "I already have my FU money, so FU fame!" :D

So the choice is about preferring $2 million and peace of mind, instead of $5 million and people annoying him 24/7. Not the "I give up of all the money for the JD Salinger's lifestyle" as the press is framing this.
Win+X, P

or open Explorer at "Computer". There is a big "Open Control Panel" button in the ribbon (reachable via Alt+C, C).

That being said, search brings me exactly where I want, while the control panel is not my end goal, so I didn't have to open it in quite a while (both on Win 8 and Win 7).
Last week we try to install comcast business in our church. They would not give us a wireless router unless we accepted her installation of a publics hot spot too. This is against the church policy because it will allow someone watching porn in the sanctuary with no knowledge for us. They would not relent.

We end up putting our own wireless router. Speed is ok, but I didn't like that comcast pushed her policies to the clients disregarding the client policy. It felt like a bully.
So how deep does it get when you say, unified control panel? The challenge with myriad tools and unifying them all in one place would mean too much of context overlaps. How do you handhold the users?
May I ask which movie?
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> We're really interested in getting feedback on how future campaigns can be better

I'd recommend addressing the actual problem, which the all-encompassing surveillance is a symptom of. The actual problem is that there is a government in place. For more information, look up Stefan Molyneux, Larken Rose, Michael Huemer, Murray Rothbard, David Friedman, etc.
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I did a bit, in (UK) A level chemistry, distilling something or other. If I remember correctly, the experiment finished when I mixed up the beakers of clear liquid and ended up throwing away the product we had distilled. Regardless, I was proud of our vial of water.
I have become very anti-EU in recent years.

I am very much pro open borders with neighboring nations, but the EU has become a vehicle for creating a fundamentally undemocratic centralized federal state.

And I especially detest the way the EU tries to shift the balance of power by allowing impoverished, corrupt nations into the EU without any kind of democratic process.

In the Netherlands, there is a clear majority against the expansion of the EU, and we are being railroaded. We voted against the EU "constitution" in the only meaningful referendum in the history of our nation, and they simply changed the fucking name.

The fact that an originally very strongly pro-European nation like the Netherlands said "no further" should have been a clear signal to reform the EU, but instead things have just become worse.

I'm still pro-European, but consider the EU the enemy of our freedom, democracy and sovereignty.
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All forms of governance must be forced to uphold human rights. No political argument can counter that without arguing that not all humans have the same rights.
Why do I have a feeling that this is like changing your Facebook picture because you think it might make a difference?
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It does teach you a lot. I spent ages wondering why my inherited class was blowing up on destruction in C++ - the parent destructor was not virtual and I was deleting the object using a pointer to the base type. So working this out has meant that there is a big burn mark in my brain to not do this again. Debugging really is good fun and helps with learning.
> Don't listen to anyone stupid enough to tell you that there's any universal rule about jobs in ads being crappy (much less a "dead end";

Also, be aware that this can change in a few years. Some people consider working for Monsanto a "dead end", because not many other companies would want to hire a person like that afterwards.
I'm against public healthcare in the USA because there's no way (in the current political climate) it won't be massively corrupt. Did you know the insurance companies were lobbying in favor of our new system? It's still about corporations making profits.
back when I was CS at JHU; there were some very strange divides in how some professors viewed "programming vs. CS". (that I only got a taste of as an undergrad; the real opinions didn't come out until I was talking to the professors after my tenure as a student) What I would call useful "life skills" (debugging, good code style, VCS, various development workflows), they called "a waste of time getting in the way of their study of PURE CS(tm)". Certain professors foster some of these skills, certain professors pretend none of them exist at all. So it's a grab bag of what skills you'll end up graduating with, aside from those you take the classes for. (which, credit where its due, with the giant qualifier of "within higher end CS", was never terrible.)
The privacy policy link (international version) points to a page written in Serbian. For a campaign all about privacy, really surprised about this. Sorry, I can't give you my name and email if I can't read your privacy policy.
What interests me is can these Lisp implementations facilitate easier translation between languages, e.g. write in Python, Python translated to Hy, Hy translated to Gisp, Gisp translated to Go. Whilst lisp dialects do differ, I'd imagine such links would be easier than a direct Python to Go translator.
But SPAM is Google's problem and they are devoting a lot of resources to stopping it. Not to say it is exclusively Google's problem or Google's only/biggest problem.
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Picturing the scene at the NSA offices: Oh shit guys! They hit 100000 signatures, shut the machine down!
This exactly my thought too. It looks like everybody who already know Lisp will developed some sweet spots for it. My guess once you experience the Lisp kool-aid, it'll be hard to be apart with it. You'll miss it whenever you code.
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Good Idea, but lets fix a couple of things.

1) Logos - both of those (rocket and infinity) are generic and/or are being used by some other company. You need your own to identify your brand.

2) "We are still in beta and need your help. Please let us know what deals you want or how we can improve." - your audience likely doesn't care about whether you need help or not. They need help and that is why they are using your service. Change this text to something more intuitive.

There are maybe a couple of improvements here and there, but let your target-market address that for you (your market seems like it is just US startups mainly).
What browsers/versions to they support?

I'm looking for something that I can use to rebuild a bunch of Java applets, but I need good audio support, and good cross-browser support as well.

Their mobile focus would be a nice bonus, but I'm not sure I can use it if they don't support even modern IE, for example... a lot of people use IE (unfortunately IE8/9 are still quite common as well, though I might be able to get away with lacking support for those), and won't install a new browser just for my site.
CS prof. here.

We don't want to teach "tools" (e.g. IDE) because they are always changing. There is no point is knowing how to set up an IDE when the IDE will have a different GUI before the student graduates. We teach"unix tools" a bit more because they did not change much during the last decades.

My goal is to teach "concepts" (which is hard) and use tools as examples of these concepts. Dealing with the specifics of a particular IDE or tool is pointless. We are trying to give students general skills that will be useful for the whole life of the students, and not skills that the industry needs this year.

That said, I do my best to teach debugging (mainly using gdb and valgrind). The real issue with debugging is that it relies on a lot of experience, which students do not have, by definition.
Well said. Does anyone really care if he forgoes millions?
Thanks for your feedback! This is just a short post about how simple networking is. I'm happy you find it motivational :)
I have a hard time seeing them adding more useless crap to their interface as beating anyone.
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Every platform has the ability. Just don't download it. Boom, done. You're respecting his wishes. What the iPhone has is the ability for Apple to enforce it.
Off the top of my head, two ways: using proxies and having the fake account artificially listed as having an address or location in the US while the actual owner is not in the US.
"An architect can reliably predict that a house or an office tower can be made from their plans."

Yes, but that's because the plans are nailed down and fixed - the creative design part is _done_.

"A chip designer can predict that a working CPU can be designed and built. An automobile designer can predict that a working car can be made."

Neither of these are true until _after_ the designs are finished. Intel has gone massively over-budget on chip designs before, and automobile designs have been abandoned after spending a fortune trying to get them right.
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Nice to see this is now a link at the very top of HN. Well done to everyone involved.
"It's not a weakness" because it doesn't matter for most people? That makes no sense.
I suspect (haven't checked!) this is actually Ubuntu kernel not allowing mbox to do what it tries to do. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening
Because they only really affect the dev team. The clients are virtually exempt, which destroys any process.
Speaking of social animals, spotted hyenas are very clever and groups of hyenas are not only very big, but have very complex rules for social interaction.

On the human mind, I do have a problem with assertions such as yours - saying that we can be "extreme" doesn't say much about how we are built or why other animals can't do it. We definitely don't have the biggest brains.

Sometime in the evolutionary process, we developed the ability to speak. Chimpanzees have symbolic capacities which are rarely used in the wild. Something happened to us, some social change and we've been practicing this ability since tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.

And speech is tremendously important because that's how we learn - we pass and receive knowledge to and from others by means of natural language. Society also leaped forward along with agriculture because that's when written language happened, also allowing us to pass knowledge to future generations. We also leaped forward when common people started learning to read. And because of the ease of access to information nowadays, I also believe we're amidst another revolution.

Now if you look at animals, they do have language. Most intelligent animals rely on body language and even sounds to communicate. But one thing that we do effortlessly is to invent new words, new metaphors to describe whatever we want and our language has gotten so big that we can describe anything.

So there's a strong correlation there and the question on my mind is - are we smart because of the ability to communicate, or are we able to communicate because we are smart?
I had a 50/10 Comcast Business account that was active in the south bay area from 2009 until last year.

The terms were an auto-renewing 1-year contract, but I could (and did) kill it at any time on 60 days' notice.

I don't recall doing any negotiation on this point when I signed up at all.
Ah! I found a bit more info on the github site:
https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser#requirements

> Games created with Phaser require a modern web browser that supports the canvas tag. This includes Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. It also works on mobile web browsers including stock Android 2.x browser and above and iOS5 Mobile Safari and above.
From the thread: "recognize the difference between tolerated and allowed" What a horrible way of governing, almost worse than the US's state vs. federal legality (at least it's officially "legal" on the state level and not just tolerated). Telling people that something is illegal but "tolerated" is a license for potential abuse by authorities. It essentially makes all prosecution a judgement call for individual authority figures. Sounds like a recipe for potential abuse to me.