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The status quo is, as always, self-preserving

Of course it is! Much like how the only species that last are the ones that reproduce, any lasting system has trended towards the solution that is stable. The systems that didn't trend towards stable probably fell apart.

It wouldn't be the status quo if it wasn't self-preserving.
> Ubuntu probably includes the same packages in its repos.

Ubuntu not only includes python3 in the base repos, I'm pretty sure its on the CD and used by some core packages now -- the conversion project that is ongoing but not yet complete is to completely eliminate python2 from the base install, which is not yet complete.
> We have chosen to not use bylines because we believe the voice and insights provided by our subjects are the highest priority.

I came upon this while looking for the author. I think it's too bad they don't use bylines. It matters to me whether the person who wrote this is their co-founder, a capitalist, an engineer, etc.

Rather than not using bylines, I'd prefer that they name the author as well as the reviewers and other contributors, much as Paul Graham does.
The Moto E has an unlocked bootloader as well, and a 4.3-inch 960 x 540 IPS screen, for $130. The Moto G is $179 and has 720p. It seems like the only reason you'd buy one would be to develop.
Hacker 'Sabu' gets lenient sentence after helping US
This is not correct. Arch Linux now uses Python 3 by default. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python)
Wrote it over the weekend. Submitted this morning. Realized it needed edits. Edited. Then added a few images. Thanks though - and noted.
I wouldn't actually call this "recent" improvements. I mean, Google has been handling JavaScript for years now. And they're just now coming out and publicly saying it. Which is typical Google.
The museum is not adjacent to Bletchley; Cambridge is about 40 miles away. You might be thinking of The National Museum of Computing which is on the Bletchley Park campus, but the Centre for Computing History is a different concern entirely.

But they're all worth a visit. :)
The purchasing flow is confusing as shit. I paid with PayPal and entered all my info, now I'm going through again and adding the same info again, and it's asking me for payment info? Arggggggh.

And the only reason I went with Paypal was so I wouldn't have to create an account with whatever the hell "EverBuying.com" is. Argghghghgh.

Edit: I gave up. So probably, I will be charged for this phone because I completed the PayPal payment but didn't complete the crazy-ass purchasing flow. I'm kind of blown away by how shitty this is.
Interesting. I remember thinking it was probably nice to use, but 1) not worth the money (to me), and 2) possibly awkward to carry in some circumstances. I'm probably not the set that would stereotypically care about it, but I am somewhat particular about my interfaces (though in a radically different way than most people seem to be...).
Yes, Git is powerful, but it’s not the only open source, distributed version control system out there. Google’s comparison between Git and Mercurial is worth reading: https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
Was there a connection to the math/CS concept of "monad", or did Snover intentionally pick a name that would guarantee eveyone would be afraid of it?

from http://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/
> I had had a number of conversations with our team in India where everyone shook their heads and smiled and seemed to get it but then the code clearly demonstrated that they had absolutely no clue what I was saying but weren’t telling me that.
> We tried a number of times to get very precise in our documentation but time and time again, it was clear that they just weren’t getting the concept

Wow, Microsoft Architechture Astronaut in a nutshell. He handwaves an idea, and then complains when someone actually writes some code and it doesn't match his imagination.
THAT'S WHAT MOOT SAID
I am human, therefore there is no difference between coding in C and coding in Rust/Cyclone?

I don't think it works that way. The surface area where you are permitted to make mistakes is completely different in language X compared to excel. In Excel, `="a"+4` is a cell error but a valid spreadsheet. In python it is an invalid program, throwing a runtime error. In haskell, it doesn't even compile.
> this is not going to gain traction -- it is, in essence, a gimmick

What makes you think that? Microsoft makes things easy for developers.

They've already enabled multiple generations of so-called "Blub developers" to service major portions of the vast enterprise landscape. If you think blub devs are stupid, then you must believe that Microsoft offers a really easy development environment. So why would that be unwanted or un-useful?

Will you argue that nobody wants to get locked into Microsoft's ecosystem or that nobody likes them based on whatever politics? I don't think there is any lock-in here (since it's running on Linux) and I don't think people are that principled when it comes to tools (based on the observation that so many `nix devs have locked themselves into the comfy and easy to use Apple ecosystem).
These are all gifts from friends and family, so I don't pay myself. They are all paid monthly though:

Netflix

Spotify Premium (Thanks mom!)

Sirius XM (Thanks dad!)

The only service I pay for personally is Amazon Prime.

I have not bought any iOS Apps (ever).

I have not bought any Mac Apps recently (this year).

The occasional Blu-ray and Nintendo game.
I was referring to the title : "Python 3 is killing Python"

Anyway, it's a well known fact that 2to3 switch has tremendous inertia. Space, Medical, Finance are few of the applications where often old is gold (tried & trusted). What bloomberg did was logical, no surprise there. That decision adds little value to how Python 3 is impacting the growth of Python.
> and, because of that, I'm out.

Sounds like someone has been watching a little bit too much Sharktank lately.
There is actually a business reason why this is the case. The general assumption in most investment banks is that either the market or the regulations will change so quickly that by the time you've written software the "right" way, either the market or the government has already moved on. Excel lets you move fast, and make changes quickly, even if it results in a bloated mess later on. Like you say, Excel isn't the issue, it's the nature of the business.
'Worth' is a slippery statement. For that matter, so is 'college graduate'.

I did a breakdown of unemployment vs level of education attained (using BLS data), and there was a strong visual difference between the people with college work and those without. If you had a college degree, you had a far better chance to have a job than someone who, e.g., dropped out of high school.

But this really only tells part of a story; it doesn't remark on the jobs available, or the personal determination, or the social savvy to grasp what more job-friendly life choices would be.

Etc.
The errors are not produced by using excel, according at lest to the financial times. But to manipulation of data.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabd...

Other people have praised the statistical work done on the book:

- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/opinion/krugman-wealth-ove...
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/1081616...

So given the controversial nature of the subject, I wonder if we could point to an objective analysis of the work.
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Yes, thank you. I think that lumping all majors at all colleges together and encouraging people to "just go to college" is a huge problem. College is a weird mix of academic pursuit and vocational training. Sometimes those things overlap sometimes not and understanding that balance is important. Not all investments in higher education are the same and not understanding what sort of investment you can make given your current financial situation is causing a lot of people to pick up a lot of bad debt.
Well, the LCHF link in that section header specifically states "high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate", but then maybe I should be including TL;DRs of the relevant information from important links like that.

Well, I'll change the document to say "fat loss" instead, but my opinion is the same. Even if a small amount of muscle were lost in the process, the strategy works so quickly that I don't think it matters to anyone who isn't already a bodybuilder or otherwise physically active.

(A 250-pound/22%-BF sedentary office worker is way less healthy than the same person at 12% BF with slightly less muscle.)

Edit: So far, this is the diff of what I've gotten from your feedback -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mM9Mt2HSz82prkmIZSrO9VLY.... Thanks!
Right, but eventually the number of possible next moves starts to drop. A game with a King, Queen, and Two Bishops has more possible valid next moves than a game with just a King and a Bishop left.
Do you have a source for this? I cannot find anything backing up your claim. I'm very curious to read more.
It's nice to have a set of abstracted patches instead of having to build every goddamn thing from scratch.
That's whats implied in the article, and it may be true, or a part of the truth, aside from that, from growing up with my gentleman farmer uncle, I know low K results in weak stems/leaves. This was often a problem with his popcorn field (yes there are specific breeds of corn for popcorn its not just generic corn, although he also grew sweetcorn for picnics and stuff... he was a popular guy) Those lettuce plants would probably blow flat if you breathed on them hard, much less put them out in the wind. I would predict low-K lettuce is significantly less crunchy that normal lettuce.
Exactly. I pretty much go "Am I paid as much as my coworkers with degrees?" The answer is generally yes, given the same level of experience.

I think what this graph shows is it is really, really hard to break into the jobs at entry level without a college degree. If you fail to break in after a couple years of trying, I suspect most people give up and permanently have their income lowered as a result.

I really, really wish these stats were based on 'same profession'. [e.g. Software Developers w/ Degrees vs. Software Developers w/o Degrees]

And I highly suspect that the reason that is never done is it will show that the value of the degree vs. a guy who took $15/hr contracting jobs for a couple years until he 'broke in' to being a Software Dev is close to 0. At which point, the self taught dev is ahead in both 'work experience' and financially.

But I could be wrong, no one has done that sort of study that I know of :/

EDIT:
The closest I could find is:
http://cew.georgetown.edu/collegepayoff
https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/ctg48m85ftqm7q1vex8y

It shows ~$700k lifetime earnings gap for STEM [bachelors vs. highschool diploma]. So, over ~45 years, we are talking a loss of ~15.5k/year on average.

Its not quite as precise as what I was hoping for but such is life since I wanted Position to Position.
You're right—I can't think of any more terms that have connotations of comparable negativity (though quite a few plainly odd-sounding ones). I will blame my indifference to this question on my English non-nativity. :)

The only remaining argument against the change is searchability—hopefully Google knows or will learn soon that these are interchangeable terms.
At the same time, if he can't contain his impulses, he probably shouldn't be helping run a company.
I was talking about major Linux distributions like in the first 3 or 4 (I don't want to dismiss Arch, but this more of an expert distribution than a major/popular one). Obviously, there are a lot of Linux distributions today, however most people will use some flavour of Debian, Ubuntu or RedHat.
Roads are meant for horses, right? We shouldn't let one company, Ford, dictate how the roads work.

My man, if we only used infrastructure and technology in the way it was originally intended and narrowly imagined, the world would be a dim place.
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An unlocked phone with an open OS, tailored for development. Good.
> Do you honestly believe that if the NSA decided they wanted your browser history, the encryption used by Chrome or Firefox would stymie them for too long?

Yes, I do. But I also believe that they would more easily access my computer after I inserted the master password, or detain me with false accuses until I give up, and maybe more. We're talking about organizations that do not abide by the law. But one thing is to worry for the NSA coming after you, another is to keep your history hidden from Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial
This was a bad idea, IMO. The part of the paper quoted in Schneier's blog post does a much better job of explaining the "economics of surveillance" than Ross Anderson's comment does.
I think a number of distros include python3 by default, but -- per python's own standards (adopted as a result of disruption caused by Arch having python3 as /usr/bin/python -- it isn't linked to /usr/bin/python but to /usr/bin/python3; /usr/bin/python is (except on Arch) always python2. That's not a matter of which is "default python" (e.g., even if, as Ubuntu plans to, python3 is the only python installed (not merely "the default python"), it will only be /usr/bin/python3, not /usr/bin/python.)

This is about consistency given that major versions aren't intended to be backward compatible so scripts either fail or find a compatible python when using a shebang, not about what is "default".
Or you could install one of the versions of Android that have no connection to Google.
Could you give some examples of these cool insights?
"Give a man to fish."
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Sending, not storing. Not much better, but you don't know whether it's encrypted at rest without actually getting into the code.
How is this different from bodybuilding.com's social network?
There are also a couple of other computer museums open to the public in the UK, one in Swansea, the other in Leicester. I think there's also one in York which you can visit by appointment only.
One potential problem here is that google will use this to widen the gap between it and the 'one page apps' web and other search engines (such as duckduckgo) that can't match it in resources.

How strong of an advantage that will be in the long run is uncertain, I would rather see a web that ships pages with actual content in them than empty containers for a variety of reasons (most of which have to do with accessibility and the fact that not all clients are browsers or even capable of running javascript).

This 'new web' is going off in a direction that is harmful, coupled with the mobile app walled gardens it is turning back the clock in a hurry.

I'm fairly sure this is not the web that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned.
To see so many people on here finding this a useful feature I wonder if there are browser extensions which store the search history (independent of the search provider) client-side.

I love how I can access years of search queries for words in other languages in an extension like Instant Translate: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-translate/...
Taking a step back: The "Page" paradigm is still very much alive, despite these recent javascript parsing advances.

1. Google still needs a URL-addressable "PAGE" to which it can send Users.

2. This "PAGE" needs to be find-able via LINKS (javascript or HTML) and it needs to exist within a sensible hierarchy of a SITE.

3. This "PAGE" needs to have unique and significant content visible immediately to the user, and on a single topic, and it needs to be sufficiently different from other pages on the site so as not to be discarded as duplicate content.
This is a classic "entrepeneur death trap".
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tdyrtET...

That's from 1996. This is what people in start-ups would mail around to each other before we had svbtle links to email each other.
I feel like it's a pretty common phenomenon for people to have their pet somewhat-arcane "gotcha" problem that they feel is the ultimate decider of who's shit and who isn't. And you're on HN, so the responses are going to be way more pedantic than just about anywhere else.

Personally I think this example is way more reasonable than most other technical "gotcha" problems. (I say that because I could solve it despite not having studied CS and being still relatively inexperienced.) But at least they're not asking how many pickles you could eat before exploding if you were shrunk down to the size of a kitten's tongue and placed on a miniature rocking horse that may or may not be alive inside its sad plastic shell.
I've published and sold books in the past. I know what is involved in it. It is not that hard, nor is it that expensive.

Most print shops will do the printing & binding for you, you can get mailers from Uline, and mail with the USPS.

It's hard to see how Amazon could stop or even inhibit any of that.
Actually it is important which one is the default, most users will use what comes with the base install and this will slow the Python3 adoption at least for a few years.
A while back, I had a mailbox at one of those Mailboxes etc. businesses, and I was able to have all sorts of things that don't allow PO boxes sent to it, since it looks like an apartment address. Worth a try for anybody in that situation.
>is this major [worth it] at this university given my personality and skills

... and social background.

I know a lot of people who graduated in subject X and then happily went on to join or manage the completely-unrelated family business. They make good money, but they would have made exactly the same money had they joined the business four years earlier. For them, attending college had nothing to do with money, and they clearly skew this sort of statistics.
The real question should be: is high school worth it, or people should just skip it and go straight to college?
Google is not dictating anything so there is no need to vent your dislike, of, Google, in that way. If anything, this releases developers from a constraint on how sites are built.

That said, I'd rather see more server-side HTML instead of client-side JS when it comes to the web. If you're developing a game, client-side JS is fine. If you're serving textual content with the odd image, please serve it in the way the web was won: HTML. Use CSS if you feel the need for some 'style', but remember that perfection is reached when there is nothing left to take away, rather than nothing more to add.
Yeah, it was reported to plaintextoffenders.com back in 2011 http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/11763953868/t-mobile-com-...
Nginx 1.7.1 has been released
I gave this 10 minutes and there wasn't any content up to that point. Anyone have a transcript of the actual meat?
Headroom.js – hide your header on scroll
It doesn't much matter, given that their frontend either has the means to decrypt the passwords or plaintext passwords are decrypted behind it and passed through it. The problem is plaintext passwords existing on their systems; encrypting doesn't solve that.
A direct link to App Store is cold. Far better to link to blog post explaining the concept.
I've never understood the real significance of automatic bill pay. Once a month, within 30 minutes, all bills can be paid online at each website manually.
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>If you don't want to give them your data, you mustn't use Google.

That is not sufficient. Recipients of your emails must also not use any Google services (also recipients of their emails etc).
Virgin UK stores and sends the password in the clear. (Evidence: Whenever I call them on the phone, I have to read out my password, which is the same as the one you use to log in through the website).

TBH I'm not especially bothered by this.
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I don't know how closely Nadella and Russinovich are working, but all being well this could be the start of a new collaboration and wave of dominance not much unlike the Jobs-Ive duo. For new product development that is, not for aesthetic design or hardware brilliance.

I had been following Mark for quite some time in the early 2000s and was a big fan of his tools but hadn't seen him speak or anything like that. He then did talk on work he was going for the next Microsoft OS, which at the time was Windows 7. His talk was easily the best talk that day. He was confident, knew his subject and was passionate about what he was doing. No one else that day was as authentic and enthusiastic as he was. I'm not sure how many people in that particular audience recognised his drive and talent though.

I'm glad to see him written up about and if he's a big part of driving Microsoft into the future, then Microsoft could very well become exciting and relevant again.
MariaDB moves development to git (on GitHub)
> My moral framework requires consent from human beings as for other creatures i see no problem experimenting with them as log as we put in the best effort possible in reducing their suffering in the process

Consent is only possible in high-functioning adult humans though. I would expect you would make the concession that 'valid consent' would exclude very young and old humans and the intellectually disabled. But they are no different in this respect to members of other species that can't (or wouldn't if capable) give their consent.

If you see no problem in inflicting suffering on another conscious being that is non-human then why is reducing their suffering even important to you? If it is important, then why isn't it as important as the suffering of a human of reduced intellectual function?

> If you're going to qualify all creatures on the same level then we shouldn't be experimenting on lab rats either don't you think?

Yes, a consistent moral framework would likely agree with this sentiment, assuming consciousness and the ability to suffer is the important consideration.

> We shouldn't be killing all those malaria spreading mosquitoes either since their creatures too right?

Well that is the position of adherents of Jainism [1], but it does really depend on what test of consciousness and capability of suffering you think is necessary to meet, rather than whether something is simply a 'creature'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism#Non-violence
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"There’s a reason FiftyThree’s Pencil is considered one of the most beautiful and revolutionary pieces of hardware in recent years"

It is? Am I the one in a bubble here or are the writers of this article in some strange feedback loop?
> Patrick McConlogue, for all intents and purposes, did not "solve homelessness."

No, but he solved what Leo saw as the worst problem of the homeless man by being his friend. He's happy now.