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Religiously motivated dissent is, by a large measure, what started what became the US, and the importance of dissent is ingrained deeply in the ideological base of the US republic. Also, you can read on abolitionist movement and their religious motivations (science was playing racial theories with gusto at that time and continued for some time even after the slavery was abolished). So your rosy picture of triumphant march of science against the forces of darkness is somewhat misguided. But the point is not even that - the point is the cheerfulness with which people meet the proposition of quelling of the religious dissent is positively frightening.
It depends on the vehicle.

There's development costs (which can be substantial). There's manufacturing costs. There's fixed recurring operational costs (which get averaged over the flight rate). There's incremental operational costs. And then way down in the noise is the fuel cost.

For most rockets manufacturing and fixed recurring operational costs are the biggies. There's only so small you can shrink a production line and an operations team, and there's only so high you can push your flight rate, the combination dictates your per flight costs to a substantial degree.

For a vehicle like the Shuttle which was quasi-reusable the fixed recurring operations costs were dominant. It cost several billion dollars a year just to maintain the standing army of engineers and technicians plus the facilities needed to keep the Shuttle operating. And because the Shuttle's couldn't fly more than once or twice a year per orbiter due to the long processing time between flights that resulted in a very high per flight cost even though manufacturing and fuel costs were low.
How is that different than just, you know, ethics?
Hi, I am one of the developers. Yes, we got crushed for a bit under heavy HN traffic. We are back up now. Sorry for the blip in service.
It's not hate and loathing. It's a banal, hopeless grind. It's exactly the same experience that the author of the essay had, but probably multiplied by five or ten times as much time coping with it.

People just aren't equipped to put themselves out there emotionally over and over and over again day after day, particularly when a huge proportion of the time, when they do put themselves out, the outcome is awful. They retreat to a numb routine of following the rules, because, basically, they get trained to do so. When they try to bend the rules, they suffer a lot of emotional anguish for, typically, no reward.
Looking at your linked thread, I don't think it's the concept itself that saw you downvoted so much as the way you stated it.

It comes off as an oversimplified 'Everything is better with startups!'

Cut out grating phrases like 'ingenious solutions' and 'young, energetic outsiders', articulate the idea more fully, speak with a little humility and I'd wager those posts would have fared much better - like this one [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739184
enabling or disabling adblock should not have any impact. We were just under heavy load causing the app to slow down significantly.
The only way I can figure it is if at least 100 million leave the middle class first.
Go look at Japan.

That is what an economy with no inflation looks like in the modern world.
There's a paper by Alan Robock titled "Internally and Externally Caused Climate Change", published in the journal of the American Meteorology Society in June 1978, and an earlier paper, "Climate Change Over the Polar Ocean" by Vowinckel and Orvig, published in Meteorology in January 1966, and, best yet, an even earlier paper, "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change", by Plass, published by Johns Hopkins University ca 1955 and funded by the US Office of Naval Research. The latter paper can be read here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.... (there is a "get pdf" link on the right.)
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Unfortunately, this is very likely the case. Do all the things the thread suggests to learn about design. Then go read the Gang of Four book to get a job.
There have been two. The incident you're thinking of was accidental at first, then done deliberately with notice two months later: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/05/13/bitcoin-blockchain-h...

When I wrote my comment I was also thinking of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=827.0 from 2010, but on a cursory glance it looks like that was resolved with a soft fork, which is possible because the rules were made more restrictive rather than more permissive.
Yeah I would like to know as well. This is why I won't buy another thinkpad after T430 if they don't restore the top buttons for the trackpoint.

Right now I have a T420 (which has the famous overheating issue) and a W530 and I'm quite happy. However this may change in the next couple of years.

As far as Mac goes, I use a Macbook at work and I absolutely hate it. Mostly as I have my nice Linux environments setup and cannot understand why Apple can't conform to the standard CTRL SUPER ALT keyboard. Though this is just my opinion.
Would it be possible to assign swap to a removable media device and then bootstrap the installer to run in that environment on a device with 128mb?
And why do the seven years 2004-2011 provide the "historical norms"?

Regardless, it is a rather small point and I will readily agree that all six assets have been falling. But arrange them vertically - or better yet, superimpose them - instead of listing them side-by-side, sorted in descending order by 2014 value and selected to dovetail together! and the story isn't nearly as clear.... Just try it.

The graph is set up to tell a macro story far beyond 2 years. It looks hastily like a 12-year story of rising from 6% to a high of under 8 and falling sharply and steadily down to 3 (briefly under 2).

But that's not what the graph says at all. It just looks that way visually.
I'm not sure that this is what you're looking for, but just so you know - there's a lisp written on top of python:

http://hylang.org

It's relatively new, but I'm really excited about it, and that is what I'm learning, it allows you to get the benefits of learning lisp and python at the same time. It's compatible with python in both directions, so you can use it in any practical project - with django or with machine learning libraries, etc.

I think it's really cool =)
Good point about Microsoft - if they bandwagon and properly implement some of the good-privacy approaches Apple takes, it will put big pressure on Google to do the same.

Ultimately, that will help all users, and in the long run, even app developers as trust increases.
MIT grad here. I took the new course (6.01) 5 years ago, but I'm reasonably familiar with SICP. They are _very_ different. 6.01 has an emphasis on robotics and AI, probably because it's supposed to be an intro to EE as well as CS. SICP is more focused on the semantics of programming languages and the power of abstraction. 6.01 teaches some of the latter, but with some OOP mixed in. But it also teaches circuits, discrete signals stuff (e.g., the z-transform), probability, graph search, state estimation, etc. It's a breadth-first intro to EECS, whereas SICP is more of a depth-first intro to the building blocks of computer programs.
Journo here. Very, very true. PR runs most of the stories you see. They don't usually run the hard news, like disasters and such, but they often glom onto those things so after a day or two, it's hard to tell who's actually reporting, and who's just regurgitating, and who's being spoon fed bullshit.

We could debate the many reasons for this fact, but suffice to say that there is A: a lot of money riding on getting such stories printed, and B: not enough time in the day or money to pay journalists to do the real work.

This plays out in a couple ways. The most common form is where the PR firm is also representing a company that advertises in the outlet. The New York Times writing about suits was probably printed on a page next to an ad for Macy's. The editorial guys are not complicit, but it's become common for sales to make "intros" to editors at parties and such. It's gross, but common.

Another way it plays out is that we get some amazing, long article with in-depth journalism that's just the best thing you've ever read. Then no one reads it because it's really long and doesn't have pretty pictures, so compared to the story linked next to it on the front page, it's basically a one or two day blip in the system, then it's forgotten. Meanwhile, that other story with a title like "Docker will revolutionize datacenters," or "Google Glass User Assaulted," are getting the same number of hits, and they took about 10 seconds to write, so as a journalist, it can be a bit frustrating to be beholden to "hits," rather than to "quality."

Which, frankly, is what most journos are dealing with. Most outlets want quantity over quality. That means the writers tend not to understand what they're writing about, but rather, they're just flying over and giving a scouting report in a vain attempt to be first.

The Wire got this soooo right in season 5. Beat reporters need to cover their beats. The smaller the beat, the better they should be able to cover it. If you have one reporter on programming only, you can really get the pulse of the industry, rather than just having your tech reporter check in every 3 months.

Journalism remains broken, with many examples of great work being ignored in favor of "10 reasons Beiber is made of plastic, and what types of plastic those would be if he were made of them," stuff. How are we going to write about people places and events when those people places and events are writing about themselves for free.
> who gets to choose what's in what basket?

Economists. Y'know, people who do that professionally.

> Which choices are correct, and which ones are not?

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm#Question_6
And that purpose is obsolete when a computer is inputting the password.
When people claim it's too expensive to live and do business in California, I think some miss the influence of the geography.

Yes the tax in CA is higher than other states but not THAT high. CA state tax is not 100% or 200% higher than most states. But housing is.

The point of moving to CA for most people is to live on or near the coast, I think... Thus most centers of commerce in CA is relatively close to the beach, like SF or LA or San Diego.

What this does is it almost immediately cuts the the available land for housing by HALF. In midwest of US (including Texas), you put a dot and draw 30 mile circle around it. All of that land is available for housing. In coastal regions like coastal California, put a dot near coast and draw a 30 mile circle around it. You get HALF of a circle available for housing.

No wonder house price in coastal CA is easily double of equivalent in Texas and other cities.

Tax in CA is not that bad. But the geography is bad for making affordable housing available, and that's not the fault of the politicians or Democrats or etc.
"The known, the unknown, and the underknown" - TMBG

"as we know, there are known knowns[...] there are known unknowns[...] But there are also unknown unknowns" - Donald Rumsfeld

It's easy for business-minded techies to understand the impact of "that online stuff". It's very likely that a septuagenarian restauranteur simply doesn't fathom its potential impact.
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Is there a reason you don't want an apple laptop? If it's because you dot want to use osx then simply put windows on it. MacBook actually make really good windows machines. And for the price since your not looking for a massive hdd the new MacBook airs are incredible.
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I don't think the PSLV actually falls in their market. It has a payload almost 10x what the Firefly alpha would offer, and it has a $15 million price tag. Frankly, if the Firefly alpha is offered at anything other than single digit millions of dollars per launch it will not be commercially viable. I think the company is aware of that and that has driven the design of the rocket. The Firefly alpha is an enormously simple rocket, and is theoretically designed for ease of manufacture. It also uses incredibly inexpensive fuels which are easy to store.
Don't worry -- God is perfectly just. I talk to him. You are the stupidest, God damn retard-niggers. You live in your hell and you haven't the foggiest reason why you evil fucks have such shitty lives. Kill yourselves.

If you weren't so evil, you life wouldn't suck so must you retard-nigger!
> I don't wanna have to wash his innards off my car, but I'm probably going to have to do something like this, sooner or later

Sounds like selection bias. The amount of bike fatalities is nowhere near large enough that you should be expecting to run someone over.
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There isn't an official Twitter API call with these parameters. This site might help you though: https://followerwonk.com/bio
Not just automated testing, quality assurance.

The job of QA is to find bugs.

The job of automated testing is to reduce the cost of QA.

With proper project documentation and separation of backend from interface using DOM templating as well as a compartmentalised, non-monolithic application architecture (ie. not using "frameworks" in the traditional sence) the code that drives an interface is not only trivial to build but also pretty trivial to replace.
Relevant: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-06/bond-anxiety-grows-...

tl;dr there's a severe shortage of treasury bonds, leading to a worrying lack of liquidity in the interbank market.
OP presents a few common anti-patterns in a humorous way. The shapes are how these anti-patterns might look in Ruby code, but anti-patterns themselves are language agnostic.

Shapes are really just for illustration, but they also emphasize the irony: “you’re part of a preternaturally enlightened dev team” yet you review your coworkers' code without even reading. Perhaps there's something to be read between the lines. :)
Well, I think everyone kind of breaks down with their "morals" or idealistic visions when presented with the word "billion". E.g. see Occulus Rift founder Palmer Lucey's posts on Reddit from years ago claiming he will never sell the company under any condition.

But a quick offer with a billion was made and just like that Oculus was Facebook's.
Quite frankly I'm glad. In my opinion, Microsoft just isn't a very good company. Their products have market share mostly due to inertia, the same way Facebook still clings to users. "Everyone uses Office", so therefore everyone uses Office.
Using the lower level AVFoundation classes to start a capture session, any app could absolutely get live camera access to either front or back camera without the user knowing anything. I know because my app shows a live preview to the user right when the app starts up, no permission required, direct access to pixels, and if I chose not to display the UIView that shows the live camera data, that would not change my app's access to the data (under iOS 7 and earlier, I mean).

It's possible Apple screened for non-camera apps using those APIs to keep spying apps out but (Edit: bad example, this was an Android app. I had said: "there was that flashlight app that was storing/reporting user GPS locations without permission so obviously things were slipping through the old system.")
>GNOME 3 was and is so bad that it spawned two rather significant and ongoing salvage attempts in MATE and Cinnamon ... We just didn't see anything close to that with KDE 4.

Trinity is a fork of KDE3, that was highly-publicized at the time and still sees some ongoing development.
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How about some simple cookie tracking an iframe that loads a random number of seconds after the page loads (like 10 - 60)? That might spam the logs randomly enough so that it couldn't be tracked. However, I think measures such as including the Securedrop page as a part of the root domain only under ssl would be the simplest solution in this case.
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Soon as we fix the sexism in the games industry we will have more women working in it
> But something tells me you aren’t a unit tester.

Hah!

I often think along the same lines when reading code. (Except exhibit 3—but I'm starting to arrive at it.) I also see my own past mistakes there.
True.

To start: IMAP is an asynchronous protocol. The impedance mismatch should be obvious. The roundtrips will kill any performance you could hope for.

The right way to do this would be to do what was done for most other successful protocols and put together a new RFC with best practices, and expire the old mess ASAP. Then make room for whatever calendar extensions or send-later flags you might wish for.
I'm quite sure that Context.IO does the same thing, as I've used it before (although they directly interfaced with IMAP).
I wasn't complaining about lost karma (although thanks for the thoughtful suggestions) but rather a certain way of thinking which I colloquially refer to as 'Googlism', although it's widely known by a different name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal).

I'm all for putting up such a goal for motivation. But one must win small, persistent victories along the way. As an example, Google initially won by superior technology (PageRank, GFS, etc.), they just didn't hope to "organize the world's information" by idealism. Similarly, what is the big game changers we are bringing to the "war on poverty". If we cannot name any such thing its idle talk.

I don't believe such new approaches will come from government organizations for various obvious reasons. Note that the author of this piece was a "young, energetic outsider".
This is completely misleading. Just because a course is offered at a 100 level, doesn't mean it's an introductory course. These numbers don't mean a thing... (in case people cared, yes I did go to one of these schools and at least state for that given school, this data is complete bs)
i want to give an advise to you as a software developer, please find a designer before find an developer, mostly users want to see "everything ready" web site/projects and most of the time you can show the ideas and flowcharts of project to developers and other business people.

drawing first, writing later.
I'd get a job first. If you are not enthusiastic about corporate programming, there are all kinds of companies with all different styles. If you look hard enough, you can find one that fits your style.
I think there's not nearly as much agreement on how a "web app" might look or work today as there was for a desktop app even as early as the early '90s.

For "classic" (content-based) web apps (forums, CMSes, blogs), there's already fairly sophisticated, end user-targeted tools that fill that role. For a lot of people, WordPress is the Visual Basic of the web. Some wiki engines could be said to resemble Hypercard.

But the community is so split on what the "modern web app" should look like (thin client? thick client? standards-based or not? use the DOM or draw directly?) that I think it'd be much harder to gain much support for a "Hypercard for the Web" -- many web developers, possibly even a majority, would consider it to be "doing it wrong" and "teaching bad habits" _no matter what it looked like_.
In addition, I feel like python tends to have a more consistent, but somewhat more verbose API in libraries and for frameworks such as web development frameworks. A strength and a problem that ruby has over python is that the syntax and language are more flexible, which both makes it harder to debug but also faster to develop and prototype in as compared to python.
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As a haskeller, I've heard some disconcerting things about OCaml.

Namely, the standard lib is more or less made just to be able to compile itself, and that the standard lib is not pure, which makes developers go to alternate implementations to do the job in a way that is expected.

Please do correct me if what I've heard is wrong.

My only indirect experience with OCaml is the Opa language compiler--so all I've seen is that it is a language favored for implementing languages.
FYI: If you have "Undo" enabled there is a delay on sending outgoing email from Gmail.
But none of those went up against a platform which did!
As a complete derail:

Floating point, as IEEE standard? Beautiful. Elegant. One of my favorite technical standards. Other than the +0/-0 thing, it's perfect.

Floating point, as implemented? Ugh. You've got processors which implement some subset of x87, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE4, and AVX, all of which handle floating point slightly differently. Different rounding modes, different precisions, different integer conversions. Calling conventions differ between x32 and x64. Using compiler flags alone on Linux x64, you can make 'printf("%g", 1.2);' print 0. Figuring out the intermediate precision of your computations takes a page-sized flowchart: http://randomascii.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/image6.png

It's a mess.
ML (OCaml and SML) seems to get short shrift in your analysis. CS51 at Harvard is in OCaml. Brown's cs017 is OCaml, Scheme, Scala and Java. Penn's CS120 is OCaml (I think. It definitely used to be, but I can't find the course online anymore. You can reach out to Benjamin Pierce to ask, though.) And CMU has an SML-based FP course as part of their intro sequence

None of this is to deny the fact that Python is highly popular as an intro language.
Market share is market share
So, since you seem to be a developer on this -I'd like to ask:

1. If I run my own email server and do not have email addresses from yahoo, google, et al, how does this help me?

2. Is there a way to strip html off every incoming message, but retain the original intent of the formatting?

3. Is the API compatible with PGP? Can I enable PGP encryption at the server level? For example, say the client connected to the server sends unencrypted mail over the SSL encrypted connection... is there a command to automatically encrypt the message to the end user if a PGP key is found on a public server?

4. It seems, much to my surprise, that there is a push toward permanent on-line storage of email -- even though this is extremely insecure [must trust multiple unknown parties/countries/servers/continuous rule of law, etc] and prone to failure as opposed to local only storage -- is there a "local storage" option similar to pop3 for those clients that wish to store email on cheap and easily secured local drives?

5. Tons of other questions... but these are the first four I could think of...
I've heard things of a similar spirit from over here. Considerably less extreme, of course, but the unemployed and the very poor are a politically vulnerable group. Not to mention the psychologically ill.

In my opinion, charity is kind of a sucker's game. It's the government's job to redistribute money from the haves to the have-nots. Because they certainly won't do it themselves.
> PHP doesn't really do anything other than web dev
This is such a complete misconception. Command line apps written in PHP are becoming increasingly popular, not to mention the fact that PHP runs everywhere.