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So, if case has no meaning, why is it that in languages where everything could be done in all lower case, programmers create conventions that actually inject case?

The only languages that don't use case are those languages where case-insensitivity was aggressively enforced.

That's not a vote for case insensitivity.

And, that's before we start considering languages where case actually completely changes the glyph or has no well-defined meaning.
Watch the documentary. Helvetica is like air, or water. It's the font when you choose don't want to choose a font, because It says absolutely nothing.
Mozilla intends to implement srcset/picture, but it hasn't landed yet. Relevant bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870021
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870022
Do you see any conflict of interest in an employee at the SEC and buying stock in every SP500 company matching their market cap, then selling them right before the SEC investigates them? If someone did that with the SP500 they could easily beat the index. I think this is the definition of malfeasance.
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Its really hard to say without being in your situation, but assuming that you keep growing, it sounds like there's inevitably going to be a point where you need to do some major infrastructure refactoring/quality of life changes. I think that you should plan for that. Looking at your current situation and trying to estimate when you'll need to make these changes for some feature down the line or some major goal should give you an idea of when they'll actually be necessary. That isn't saying keep accruing technical debt infinitely, but rather figure out a natural point of growth/stability where the changes make sense and the debt needs to be erased.
The answer would largely depend on how large the focus area is or how fast the signal quality degrades the further from the epicenter of the focal point that the receiver is.

Maybe the system could apply road map info to fast-moving cell phones which it can assume are in traffic. And this could help it predict possible future locations of your device.

For much of the day the majority of devices in a given "cell" will be semi-immobile at a desk or slowly moving when someone's walking.
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I think "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" covers this case.
No, it's because you aren't following the guidelines. Post interesting content. This isn't reddit.
The particular form of Moore's Law that used to give regular doublings of clock speed is the one that has been dead for years.

Although not the original formulation (which was number of transistors), the clock speed one is very significant because it means that sequential computations are no longer getting faster exponentially.

The forms of Moore's Law that remain are still being used advantageously by Intel, e.g. for more cores amongst lots of other things, but it's not helping as much, since not all computations can be parallelized.
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Government employees make a lot in absolute terms, but are also much more likely to be highly educated or skilled. In practice, white collar professionals take a pay cut to work in government.
I wouldn't even think where i would use it, can you enlighten me?
They should be barred from changing any position they have the moment there is a whisper of some sort of regulatory action against a company.

This policy is forcing them to act on non-public information, which is very illegal for everyone outside of the SEC.
Touché ;).
Doesn't that effectively translate into "not allowing staff to hold stock at all?"
Yep. This has been going on since the beginning of cryptocurrencies and will continue to happen. As was mentioned last time, no one has actually written at length about this issue, so it would be a good opportunity for some thorough investigation.

Here's a post about it happening with dogecoin if you want an inside look (IRC logs) into what's going on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126153
Is it really that hard to do a t-test comparing the buys and the sells to find out if the difference is statistically significant at this sample size? I'm sure there are better tests, but that one is literally the first test you learn in a statistics course. Are there no journalists at the Post who have taken a basic stats course?

They could literally just punch in the 10 numbers (buys and sells for each of the five events) into http://studentsttest.com/ and get a result.

We should really figure out some way to enable more science students to pursue journalism. What's the point of having thousands of brilliant scientists doing research if journalists are just going to mangle it every time? Distribution is just as important as production.
http://www.sopcast.org/ has been around for years (decade?)

Whenever Olympics or world cup rolls around ill download and watch.

Found it to be pretty bloody good, too complicated for your mum but fine anyone with a little computer savvy.

But it is 2014, we should be well on the way to awesome idiot proof webrtc goodness.
And it's far better than other messaging services where messages can be read by the server (e.g. Google talk). If they/the government wanted to read your messages, at last they'd have to jump through some hoops.
It doesn't have to be high power to be effective. Google search on "russian microwave US embassy" (not Bing search, unfortunately), which yields some interesting background on the Russian's beaming microwaves at the US Embassy. It was within the US legal limit at the time. Health problem ensued. Making an adversary sick without noticing may be more effective for some situations.
I, for one, would greatly appreciate if you can allow employers to specify if they're OK with Remote (distinguishing between Remote-US vs. Remote-Anywhere, I suppose), and allow me in Hong Kong to apply to them :-)
I fail to understand your point. Why would eliminating conflicts of interest be a zero sum game? If somebody's job is to police the players, how could they do it effectively if they have a bias towards certain players? Allowing a conflict of interest destroys the purpose of their job in the first place!
Are we just going to ignore that this data only began to be collected in 2009, at a stock market bottom? All stocks have done well since then..
Most of these points are completely wrong.

> * Text messages and most other chat protocols require that you trust multiple hardware vendors, multiple software vendors, and multiple telcos. By comparison, iMessage only requires that you trust a single company, Apple.

This is incorrect. It requires you to trust Apple, every company who operates a CA, every government who can compel any CA to mint a certificate (read: you trust the Turkish and Chinese governments), your IT department, and any hacker who has access to any of those. If you didn't install the patch this week, and for the last year and a half, it required you to trust everyone on every network segment you have ever connected to from any Apple device.

> * This is about as secure as it could ever get without requiring users to be educated about security principles. Given that iMessage is foremost a seamless alternative to text messages, it's difficult to imagine how they could make it more secure without compromising utility.

It could very easily be more secure. For example, certificate pinning would be a decent start. It could also allow users to view key fingerprints if they choose to. Many users wouldn't understand the purpose of that exercise, but at least the option exists. More paranoid users could enable warnings if a user's key changes. See also: Whisper Systems

> * The implementation details mean that any Government snooping must be done with Apple's knowledge, and will require the blessing of Apple's legal department. This might not be a particularly high bar to cross, but it does mean that Governments aren't running rampant, analyzing every message sent.

Incorrect, as explained above. There are attacks that do not require governments nor do they require any assistance or blessing from Apple.

> * The United States government isn't the only bad actor out there. The level of security appears to be extremely good against entities that hold no sway with Apple's legal team. It's also presumably impervious to a hostile network, or hostile foreign governments.

It's not impervious to hostile networks if those networks include your corporate IT network or if you have used it in the past year and a half on any network. Even with the latest patches, it is not impervious to hostile foreign governments. Check your browser's CA list and take a look at how many different countries are in there. For a more complete list, take a look at this: https://www.eff.org/files/colour_map_of_CAs.pdf
>>But is that really unique to Perl these days?

Yes. Scripting powers of Perl are unmatched.

>>It may have been true in the mid-1990s, but things have changed since then.

Hardly anything has changed. No language has taken scripting that seriously. You are likely confused between dynamic languages and scripting langauges. There is a big difference. If you haven't noticed, well then that's the whole point behind Perl. You really need to use it to see what it is.

>>Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax

Its not about having a cleaner syntax. Making it easy to learn, only means the complexity is left to the programmer to handle now. Either way some one needs to handle the complexity, Its either the programmer or the language. If you make the language simpler, the complexity burden shifts to the programmer.

>>yet still offer very comparable functionality, excellent portability, ample standard and third-party libraries, excellent documentation, supportive communities, great regex support, and basically everything else that Perl offers.

Python takes great care to purposefully avoid offering every thing that Perl offers.

>>Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects

You will have to substantiate that point with some evidence.

>>Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.

That is being told since what? 1988?
Hey the SEC only hires the best of the best .
No, no, no. This is why reasoning by analogy can lead you astray. We have enough control over the world of software that the problem described above should not exist. This control does not exist in the real world, but it does in software.
> Nester explained that before staff can work on an issue that involves a company, they have to sell any holdings of stock in that firm. As a result, he said, there shouldn't be any surprise that a sale would precede the announcement of an enforcement action.

Can I use this fact to detect upcoming potential investigations or enforcement actions which may not be public knowledge, and use that to my advantage?

[Edit:] This also seems to have the unfair effect that SEC employees get an "out" from previous investments in companies that the SEC is about to investigate. Isn't that ultimately another form of trading on insider knowledge, even if it's mandatory?

On the other hand, if SEC employees are not forced to sell, then their holdings may diminish their impartiality. It seems like the only fair and neutral approach is to require SEC employees to hold no individual stocks at all during their employment - or any type of financial instrument issued by organizations they might potentially investigate.

(Is this perhaps what the SEC means, that employees are forced to sell because they've just joined the SEC? If they're forced to sell an individual instrument only at the beginning of a specific investigation into a single organization who issued the instrument, then that seems like a loophole.)
Maybe allow for two options:

Option A: Blind trust with some capital gains incentives?

Option B: Ability to manage your own portfolio, but can't act on SEC+company news until x hours after publicly disclosed?
Interesting. I like my use of those tools to compact and precise, which is why I value Perl. I find the expressiveness lets me convey the meaning of the code with a minimum of boilerplate.
No. I read multiple languages. Maybe my friend wants me to explain something in the docs they are reading - should I need to change my browser language to check it for him? I want to look something up from a university computer where I am studying in France - I can never see the docs in my native language from a public computer? I want to look something up on my friends laptop - it has to be in his preferred language?

It is nice to try and help a user, but you should always let them override your language decision.
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Its not about having function to call shell commands. That way I might as well use C or C++ or Java.

Its about how such a feature interplays with rest of the language.

Frankly speaking in Python it looks like added after a lot after thought and a lot of reluctance. Same with regular expressions.
>How much do you think you should be saving every year such that saving tens of thousands every year is not enough?

OP may not have always had such a high-paying gig. I lost years of potential retirement savings working for under-funded startups (including my own). I'm making good money now and put a decent amount of money into retirement and savings, but I do feel like I'm really far behind compared to similarly-aged friends who stayed in the corporate track.
He said laypeople though, not HN readers.
Can you spare one for me as well? (email's in the profile)
> I just wanted to point out that (from their mobile sites) I couldn't find a single story about this on CNN, FoxNews or MSNBC. (4:36pm CST)

At the time of your post, CNN and MSNBC had it. Fox got it around the time of your post.

You probably missed it because it is common for major news organizations, both inside the US and those outside, to actually maintain separate views of the news for their domestic visitors and their international visitors.

The domestic view assumes that you are interested in mostly domestic news, and only want to see the top international stories. The international view assumes that you are interested mostly in world news, and only want to see the top domestic stories.
I asked Phil Rogaway in person about OCB mode and he said it's free and usable for all nonmilitary uses, even for businesses. For more info about the specific license you can email him personally, he's a really nice and helpful dude.
Is this somewhat similar to Soasta Mpulse RUM?
The way you inject the code to start sending data points is similar. With them i have to specify what i want to track though, using tags. It won't allow me to track all ajax calls.
Today's case sensitivity does seem to be descended from Unix and C. Windows file names are still case insensitive. Windows will preserve the original case when displaying file names, but at the API level, file names are case insensitive (you can't have two files called "foobar" and "FOOBAR" in the same directory, and "delete foobar" will delete "FOOBAR"). Windows environment variable names are also case insensitive.
The Evian and Skype logos are definitely not typeset in Helvetica.
> Words printed in Helvetica tell you what stop you're at on the New York subway.

Yes, sometimes, but I prefer it when the original signs tell me what sign I'm at on the New York City Subway:

IRT: http://instagram.com/p/fBVpruQAcE/

BMT: http://instagram.com/p/e0mRuswAY3/

IND: http://instagram.com/p/fBV83vQAci/
Right, but isn't the point that they could do it in a targeted fashion? Granted, it beats the dragnet situation we have now, but it's not quite at the point of "Apple couldn't intercept your messages even if they wanted to".
> Monoid is a semigroup with an identity, and also a group without inverses.

Classic. Sometimes Haskell fans have useful things to say, and sometimes they're just using terminology to try to win an intellectual dick-size war. The tricky part is telling the two apart.
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>>It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java.

I work on legacy Java code bases every day, where I see thousands of lines of code all to just simply set and read variables.

I'm not sure how that's even remotely described as readable.
My two favorite government investing scams:

(1) Congress's insider trading exemption - Until recently legislators and their staff were completely exempt from insider trading laws while they were often privy to insider information[1]. It's no wonder they do so well in the market. Too bad some minor restrictions recently were enacted - but no worries they just got rid of them as soon as the noise died down[2].

(2) Tax-free portfolio rebalancing - Big shots like the Secretary of Treasury often sell billions in stock without paying any capital gains tax. This allows them to fully take advantage of the free step up in basis when they die. So they can never pay anything on the fortune they made at Goldman Sachs[3].

Fuck these assholes!

[1] http://www.thewire.com/politics/2011/11/hustle-defuse-60-min...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/08344222725/congre...

[3] http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-arti...
Keep in mind the mandate is price stability, not interest rate stability. And anyway, targeting a static, transparent, openly published interest rate is very stable, at least when they are actually able to do it for extended periods. It's very predictable, which businesses need to plan and forecast future hiring and investment.

Volker targeting [whatever it takes to kill inflation, eg 20%+] and Bernanke targeting [whatever it takes to prevent a Depression, eg 0%] maybe not so much, but at those times their mandate was even moreso price and economic stability, not interest rate stabilty.

The fact that 2% interest rates cause currency devaluation over time doesn't make it unstable, it's still quite predictable and hence stable. It's high-variance money and assets, like cryptocurrencies among other things, that are unstable (at least right now in their infancy, I'm sure that will be different 10-20yrs from now).
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> (You would destroy me in a high-speed deathmatch because my 'put cursor on dude' skills are minimal - largely because almost every single 'put cursor on dude' game requires me to inhabit the grey/brown shoes of Mancho McGruntsalot, so I really don't feel like playing them.)

Excuse me, but most males would get destroyed in a deathmatch because most of us are not 14 year olds with nothing to do but play videogames 8 hours a day. That's true of any "twitch" game.

However, I get a little tried of the griping about video games being dominated by "male targeted". Let's flip the complaint around:

"I'm so tired of all the Disney singers/boy bands/American Idol targeting girls. Where are the songs written for boys?"

Now, see the problem?

These things are targeted at specific demographics. The FPS makers are targeting young males just like the singer factories are targeting young females.

What both sides of this equation have in common is: "Why don't the producers do <creative thing X> instead of just factory churning a product?" And the answer, as always, is profit.
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This demo actually has pages.
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Accidentally upvoted. So to counteract: TFA is talking about children. You know, impressionable and malleable young minds that don't yet have the benefit of wisdom and experience.

Your post is Shit HN Says material.
before you jump to writing your own text editor from scratch, consider contributing to textadept. it's about half the text editor that sublimetext is, but it's lua based, already exists, and it is totally open source.
Scheme with the batteries included:

http://racket-lang.org/
$1.3MM will get you a VERY nice home in some of the more exclusive neighborhoods in SF (Noe Valley).

Only in SF do you have people complaining that they are "middle class" because they can't afford a single family home (already a luxury in major US cities) in a ritzy neighborhood and have to suffer through a >25 min commute.

Houses in SF on the edge of the ritzy neighborhoods cost $700k. But that's not living the american dream right
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> Someone could make a good argument that games are made for guys simply because male tastes are much simpler than females'.

Someone could also make a good argument that games are made for guys because it's one of the few good ways to separate males from their money while there are lots of alternatives to separate women from their money.
Uncle Bob's videos on TDD are pretty neat cleancoders.com .
So, I don't know Rust, so I'm not going to try and voice an opinion that would be unsubstantiated.

As for your observed point 2 though: at some level, systems languages need to allow the twiddling of bits on and off, perhaps allow the direct interaction via assembly with the processor, have some notion of native word size, and perhaps also make simple common idioms in low-level programming (stacks, interrupts, and so forth).

It is very rare (in my experience, which may not be accurate) that these issues should be even visible at semantic layer concerned with mapping functions over data and other functions, with sorting sets, and sending messages. It's simply too polluted a headspace.
How weird and inconvenient that she doesn't have video of her friend punching someone to start the fight.
All good points, but you also should consider the plausibility of it being a correlation. By this I mean that there seem to be clear candidates for a common cause between no insurance and high mortality, for example: income.

Once you control for this, and other potential common causes, your case for causality becomes much stronger (or non-existent).
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Insider trading seems unfair. But after a lot of thinking and listening to arguments on both sides, I now actually find the argument in favor of legalizing insider trading fairly compelling. I'd suggest that anybody with strong feelings against it take a little time to consider the arguments for.

The argument for has two levels:

1) The trade is a victimless crime. Given the way markets worse, the naïve party would have bought or sold the asset anyway from someone else. Think about how you buy stocks: you just call your broker and ask to buy at the market price. If you do that and end up buying from an insider, you are no worse off.

2) Insiders actually move the price in favor of the naïve party they trade with. If a stock is being sold on the market $29 and the insider knows its true value is $20, they must sell below the other offers (e.g., $28.99) to make the trade. This is in favor of the buying party relative to the outcome without the insider: the buyer will lose $.01 less per share. At large trading volumes, insiders will actually move the market strongly in the direction of the fair price, making all trades of that asset more fair.

Unfair though it may be, society at large does not benefit banning insider trading, and allowing it would make stock market prices more accurate which is actually probably a fairly strong benefit to society.