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Diffusion of decision making sounds like a good idea in general. Blaming the process is how NASA produces nearly faultless software, for example.
So is there any plan for interop with non apple devices?
"A 16-19 year old, no matter how intelligent, doesn't have much wisdom."

I couldn't help but be reminded by the Good Will Hunting scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBjWHfBHKos
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To be fair, anyone who's ever been in a biologic lab setting is probably interested in this stuff enough to know about smallpox being held exclusively in Atlanta and VECTOR, and know enough to immediately cover those with every covering available and, at the same time, calling for help to everyone who could help until help arrived.

Can you imagine the consequences?! Ms Dumblefoot, would you tell us the story of Steve Campbell again? Well children, he was a researcher at NIH who found smallpox and dumped it in the trash. It was scattered to the winds from the top of Fort Totten and that's ultimately how, after a few cycles of unexplained seasons of worsening local outbreaks, 10% of the greater DC metro population, and half the healthcare workers, died in the great 2023 outbreak just before vaccination was back in full swing. It should be contained in another 30 to 40 years, assuming the Chinese haven't weaponized it.
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It bothers me a little that (<)100 is half-way around the meter while (<)400 is all the way around. I don't usually quibble about small details, but if you're going to make a meter, just make it sensible.

Why not have a continuous (or at least less discrete) meter?
Thanks,
Happy to hear :)
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Are you sure that you wouldn't have had to face those hurdles even if you'd gone to college? I went to Amherst (#1 liberal arts college in the country when I matriculated). A number of my classmates are almost a decade older than you and would love to be making 6 figures.

I don't know a single Millenial who hasn't struggled with reality post-graduation. (Actually, that's not quite true, I know a couple Googlers who got in straight out of school. They're a minority, though.)

Personally, I think that the biggest advantage a person can have today is to consider rejection Somebody Else's Problem. The people who can get rejected over and over again and still bounce back to full energy immediately tend to succeed no matter where or whether they went to college and no matter what they try.
I remember about 3-4 years ago, a couple of programmers talking. One said to the other, "you know, javascript is getting respectable now." I'm blown away by how such a complicated system can be described and implemented in so few lines of code. When I went to school, seriously complicated programs took a lot of time to write and render. The easy way involved Matlab because it had a lot of graphics libraries. It looks like javascript really has turned the corner into becoming a language with serious possibilities.
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It's annoying when people we don't like win elections isn't it?
EDIT: Which countries weren't racist in the second world war? All the allied countries I know anything about certainly were.
Hey there!
I appreciate your insights - i took some good notes.
Stay tuned for my follow up post.

Cheers,
Hila :)
i'm pretty sure existing users don't go to the official haskell site
I thought the same .. though there's no decay but it's nice to see the traced path: http://jsfiddle.net/m5MZe/1/
That first writeup is incredible. Imagine if all that effort [by governments] was put into something positive.
It is missing a flask to hold the emergency whisky.
Ask HN: What can we do about global warming?
As developers (or just hacker types), it seems as if there should be opportunities to leverage our abilities to fight global warming. I've been wanting to put some energy into this, but haven't found much in the way of projects or organizations. What are some ways we can use our skills for action or awareness for what may be the biggest crisis of the upcoming generation?

PS - For a perspective on how unprepared we may be to deal with global warming and how difficult the solutions are, check out: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/5/5779040/7-reasons-America-fail-global-warming
Wonderful comment, but I have a math degree and Haskell experience. This stuff would be insane to drop on a beginner.
The most proactive step I take to get things done is to go somewhere where I'll feel guilty if I don't do work. I've learned not to trust myself when I'm alone in a room with no oversight...I'll just end up getting distracted or playing games or going on social media, and I very easily lose track of time this way.

It's much easier for me because I'm in college right now and the library is only a few steps away from my dorm, so the activation energy isn't as great. But I've found that I get very self-conscious about what's on my screen if I move to an open spot in the library where people can see my laptop screen as they walk by. What also helps is seeing my friends be productive; it pushes me to begin work as well.

An unintended benefit of constantly going to libraries or cafes to work is that it makes me separate my work from my dorm room, which is advantageous in itself. Returning to my room now allows me to put my work behind me and truly relax, something that hadn't really been possible before. Of course, all this is psychological, but I find it really helps me.
Visual sometimes do the work. Specially when you having a glance look due lack of time.
I recently emailed with a company using it for the back-end of multiplayer video games they make. They seemed to be interested in hiring open minded programmers with Ruby, Python, Erlang, and likely other experience, but didn't seem to expect any actual professional Elixir experience. Just an anecdote of course, but perhaps proof that there is at least a fledgling market for the language!
I'm going to be as hand wavy as the BBC here: but in the past there has been fake Palestinian twitter accounts tweeting nonsense like this. It's a systemic way to discredit a source and deny the murders. I'm guessing, it's a form of electornic Mista'arvim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mista%27arvim
I definitely see how this would be useful for automated tasks. I have some python scripts doing a fair bit of automated data munging that would probably benefit from being written in Erlang/Elixir.

Slight tangent - people often say learning Haskell is worth it for the eye opening experience it provides, regardless of whether you get to use it day-to-day. Would you say the same of Erlang and Elixir?
CrossClj does something very similar.

http://crossclj.info/
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did AoE really use procedural generation? it could have been due to the immaturity of the genre, but i think you'd be hard pressed to procedurally generate balanced RTS maps. seems more forgivable for something like Worms, but still kind of dangerous.
No, because this is made by Panic, a company that only makes software for OS X and iOS.
For a long time, it didn't. It was added a couple of years ago. Prior to that, people would attempt to scrape HN, and create separate sites for search / rest api, etc.
In situations of asymmetrical information, there can be market solutions. Such as warranties.

The information, or the lack thereof is also reflected in the price.
One thing bureaucracies are susceptible to is vendors requiring mandatory software updates on custom software. This costs much more than most people think, and with the city of City of Munich would dwarf any productivity overhead.

Sure it's the case with Photoshop as it's an off the shelf piece product, but it won't be with CustomVendorDirectXAccounting v13.5. I doubt City of Munich has teams of people running photoshop, and any designers likely have suite of macs anyway.

I'd wager the cost savings of switching to OpenSource likely won't come from initial costs. It will come from forcing custom software vendors to distribute software that inherently requires less ongoing costs.
Interesting. I suspect this varies a lot person to person - I'm thinking about Meyers-Briggs and the S/N divide here. I knew how to throw everything together from a very early age. I wrote one of my physics exams in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (you try rhyming ∇ · B, I dare ya :-)). I was making hanging mobiles out of the periodic table elements at 12, and my dad taught me how to balance chemical equations and graph exponential decay curves at 7.

What I didn't know how to do was put my nose to the grindstone and rigorously study one subject in depth until I learned all the dusty corners. I was very good at impressing people with off-the-wall connections and intuitions that they would never have dreamed of, but I couldn't finish my homework or solve textbook problems. I did learn that in college (but in an unorthodox way - by nearly flunking out).

But I can't help but wonder if this is a maturity thing and it would've happened without college. I actually felt that the greatest improvement in my ability to persevere and get through the boring things that weren't immediately obvious happened in the 5 years after college, once I got into the working world.
"The acrid smell of fresh paint"

If the paint is smelling acrid, they should get out ;)
I never said it was good or bad...
Exactly. The title of the article feels like a link bait. It's only been two months!
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This appears to be a continuation of chrisdone's work on an "alternative Haskell homepage" [1], which was previously posted to HN [2].

[1] http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskell-lang

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814354
Why do so many visual designers for web use Helvetica Neue when it is such an expensive font to actually use for web?
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It will be interesting to see how those that return to college feel about that choice after they complete college. They'll have both experiences under their belt and be in the best position to see the relative value of each, at least in their atypical order.

Many instructors say more experienced students are more focused than those that enter college right away. That will factor in as well. There are no simple answers to this question, except that pushing everybody to do things one particular way is probably unjustified.
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Looks like Google Translate disagrees with you: https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Elfen%20%0Abein%20%0Ak...

Elven leg coast. I guess this is why I've been told off by German speakers in the past for deconstructing words like that.
Dwarf fortress is one of many games that I enjoy following but can't really play... I just like that OTHER people play it. I've grown up on games just like any other form of entertainment (movies, tv etc) and it's great that I can still get some feeling of keeping up on things by watching 5 minute videos or reading summaries of some other much better player's creative output instead of having to invest 50 hours that I don't have...
Exactly. 50% - compared to what? Weren't all these people accepted to prestigious colleges and ~100% likely to go to college? Or, was there some reason to think in advance that 50% shows the program is a failure while if 40% would vindicate it?

The more interesting question is, what are the 50% who don't want to go back doing now? Those are the ones whose circumstances would tell us something meaningful about how well the Thiel thing is working.
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I've "read" most of the first three volumes if it counts to read the text and skip most of the math. I always figured it was enough to "get" the algorithm, and go back to the math if I ever needed it. So far, years later, I've never needed to go back to the math, so I'm glad I didn't spend much time on it.

No doubt the math is useful in a theoretical way, and I'm pretty sure I could follow through most of it if I really needed to, but as far as proving algorithms and asymptotic run times, I've yet to need more than a general understanding of big O notation in my real work.

How long it takes is entirely up to you. If you try to understand every detail of every proof and theorem it will probably take a very long time.

I'm not sure it's worth reading all the way through, to be honest. I guess I'd suggest the first volume for a solid, math heavy intro to algorithm analysis and design. But after that, there's not much point unless you're going to read it for fun, and in that case, why ask about it on HN? The reality is that few people will ever need to know that much detail about any of the algorithms covered because almost all of them are library functions now.
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Try Star Citizen, which needed an email, login name AND username. Insanity.
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Thanks :)

Hila.
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iBeacon includes the device transmitting a clabirated signal transmission strength in each packet so the phone can do a calculation against the RSSI and the power the device claims to transmit at. With this information you can be much more accurate then working with a WiFi where the goal is to be loud and get as much distance in as possible.
They've never overcharged a LiPol then.
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Go's actually a pretty good choice for servers if you go the single-page webapp or native app setup. The biggest weakness for Go, in my experience, is that its facilities for templating, generation of HTML, and webapp development are pretty weak. But if you go the single-page app system, then your server just needs to serve JSON, and Go's JSON encoder is a pretty nice piece of software.

The big monkey wrench in this picture is Polymer, which has significantly more support within Google than Angular and has the advantage of aligning with the emerging web standards that will be baked into browsers. Polymer is still HTML-based, which means that Go still doesn't have great support for working with it.
I agree about the faint separators. I'll take under consideration in my follow up post - Stay tuned.

Cheers,
Hila
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Yeah baby!!! For LINUX, woot!

Love it when linux gets cool tools like that.
The vast differences between software and buildings correspond to the vast differences in designing them.

In context here, "minute detail" is obviously a relative term comparing the requirements of software and architecture design.

You just made up the "specific language" thing. The reason we don't get unicorns to write software for us is they don't exist either.

There are many incompetent software devs out there, but I don't see how anyone can possibly build any amount of software _well_ without having an appreciation of how to design it. This is why I used the word "capable".

The thing is, even if some of these things were similar to architecture, it would be by accident. They are, on the surface, totally different fields. On a deeper level, they're still totally different. The onus is on you to show the linkage, if you believe it to be applicable.
I've done quite a bit of iBeacon stuff including emulating them with Raspberry Pi's and writing an iOS app that measures the OS behavior against iBeacons. It's pretty interesting stuff, there are a couple of my beacon's I'm using to test iOS behaviors with that are buried in a New York city park near my place.

If you find one let me know.

I suppose I could write some of my findings up but I've been a bit busy...
I imagine there is a lot of data available on the Israeli side but not as much on the Palestinian side.
XSS

http://www.beakscore.com/welcome/beakme/?u=%3Cscript%3Ealert...
Not sure if this is HN appropriate.. Although "wow". Maybe work out the statistical odds and write a blog post about it then come back..
I don't quite like this. The old one had front page links to the haskell wiki. This design is really information undense. Also, links to Hoogle and packages would be fantastic in the front page
For those like me who don't know what the saying means.
> Eating crow is an American colloquial idiom, meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position.<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow
I'm interested in using this for home automation purposes. Accurate information about what room of the house I am in allows for the home automation interface to be greatly simplified by only showing options to control nearby items.
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It seems the actual article points to the contrary: that the prediction model is generally good, but can get unlucky, and has trouble with edge cases.
> When you're teaching systems programming, all the things that have to be done by hand in C are precisely the things the students are supposed to be learning. But for almost everything else, they're pointless details that obscure what you're actually trying to teach.

Exactly.
> liberal arts...would love to be making 6 figures

It should be pretty obvious that your classmates' experiences aren't at all representative of what engineering/finance majors go through.
This is really helpful ! Thanks a bunch !
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It's also full of shit. I know many of the new fellows and they're saying that they were misquoted in the article and some of them said that they're not planning on going back, despite Techcrunch writing otherwise.
> I went to Amherst (#1 liberal arts college in the country when I matriculated). A number of my classmates are almost a decade older than you and would love to be making 6 figures.

I bet a some of them are in or finishing up graduate school, pursuing a subject that they're interested in though. Plenty of smart and well-adjusted people I know from undergrad make less than me, but for some of them - tbh, I'd switch places with them in a heartbeat for personal, job security and job satisfaction reasons.

I used to laugh secretly at my liberal arts peeps at Wesleyan (a worse liberal arts college) when we just graduated 6 years ago. But now peeps are pushing out their films in film festival, post-doc research at conferences and published novel tours and still relatively poor; but I'm quite envious of people taking creative control of their destiny and shipping something, which IMHO more important than the dollar figure. But ironically, it took me making six figures the confidence of reaching a certain "threshold" and the disillusionment of that "threshold" to realize this.

> a couple Googlers who got in straight out of school. They're a minority

Yes. I bet most of them are graduates of top US engineering schools whom arguably have had a very sheltered experience (but probably still less sheltered than Amherst or Wes tho). They for sure got a head start compared to everyone else in "personal finance." But tbh, like you say, dealing with personal difficulties is actually a blessing in disguise and an important phase in your life to know to keep going and going esp. when the going is tough. In some ways, I think the jury is still out for your Googler youn'g vs. the battered Amherst post-grad's toughing it out. I'd give it another 25 years when everyone's in their 40's, 50's to make the judgement.
True, but not wanting to get hit by explosive projectiles seems to be universal. If you could make a tool that addressed that need without regard to which side of a dispute users were on it might have a de-escalatory effect. Then again maybe I'm wrong and it would just cause technological escalation instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad#Stories_involving_...
It's more than annoying when said people proceed to summarily exterminate and/or expel all members of the democratically elected government belonging to the rival party, and bring about a quasi-religious violent regime which kills its own people for ideological ends.

Also, it is not ok to use your own civilian population as human shields, raise a generation of kids to become violent martyrs for your cause, and sacrifice their lives for your ideological war, which include things like the "elimination of a Jewish state in Israel".

Hamas killing Palestinians living in Gaza who are having a wedding, which wasn't Islamic enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEud-cEjwQU

Indoctrinating children to hate and "kill Jews" to "liberate Palestine":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow's_Pioneers

By the way, in Hamas' view, "liberate Palestine" means to rid it of a Jewish state completely. If they took all that money to actually improve the education and quality of life of their citizens (which is what they are, essentially), they could be a legitimate government of a legitimate state. They already effectively have a state in the Gaza Strip. But their leaders would prefer to fight their ideological war and sacrifice their own people for it. As often is the case, it's the leaders of the people with their ideological ideas who are most responsible for the deaths of their own population.
The autocomplete is provided by my parser-combinator library which is designed in a very generic way. It can be used for any application, not just natural language queries.

About the parser generator: the ER description provides natural language phrases for every entity and relationship. From this the parser builder is able to create parser combinators. There are some hard-coded assumptions and parsers for common data types such as dates and numerical figures.
Funny you say that, these startups actually wanted me to be referred to as a cofounder even though I wasn't. They actually leveraged that title to make me sacrifice salary and work much harder than I should have (i.e. many all-nighters). When I found out funding was running out and I was only being paid enough to cover rent I had to leave.
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Ivory is elephant tusk, and people in the past didn't always distinguish between tusks, bones, and teeth.
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I'm surprised someone hasn't automated jobs like that, honestly.
Just wanted to share this with anyone who is constantly confronted with the minor burden of two-step authentication using their phone. There's a very slight security trade-off which comes with storing your authentication key in a bookmark; in a decent number of cases, however, it's well worth the gain in login seamlessness.
If anything, a big success will make the problem worse by further fooling kids into thinking it's easy to become a big tech success.
Thanks for the praise!

Totally agree; it's not true NLP.

Moreover, true NLP is currently not achievable. We would need an algorithm that passes the Turing test to infer the meaning of a free-form statement.

Like my parent post said, every current NLP system uses some hard-coded assumptions. They just differ in the amount of assumptions.
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>That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth

Now that I think about it, you're completely write. It's been years since I've seen text-speak.