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The student discounts you get isn't really worth it. The semester ticket for public transport though costs about 1€ a day. That is incredibly cheap compared to the regular tickets.

Other universities have the same problem though. In NRW you can practically travel through the entire state with a semester ticket at roughly the same price.
Well, OK. I have never seen anyone argue that functional programming is beneficial for performance reasons.
I will admit that I rather wish I had the skills and knowledge necessary to do something like that. Amazing.
There are some benefits to using a managed service instead of setting everything up yourself on a vps. The management tools are usually better, and many of the common services are already installed and configured for webhosting. Also its generally less work to deal with scaling using a hosting provider compared to doing it yourself, but it really depends on how much you value your time.
Your analysis is very black and white, and reality is probably more nuanced, but I generally agree that Europeans tend to be more risk averse than Americans.

It is also true that something as "simple" as starting your own company or working as a freelancer it often involves a lot of paperwork and upfront costs, which discourages a lot of people.

Still, I believe things are changing (in some countries faster than others), at least on this account.
There is a potential here for there to be a change similar to the 18th century. Suddenly, non-governmental forces or fledgling governments can quickly equip a lightly armed force. For the last 1-2 centuries you needed a manufacturing infrastructure under your control, but a 3-D printer device like this (if I am understanding the article correctly, and perhaps I am not).

In the 18th century, relatively low-cost and reliable rifles became available, and this fundamentally changed the balance between established governments and small armed groups. This changed contributed to the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the downfall of the Mughal Empire (where small regional rebellions suddenly became more viable and central control began to break down).

This period eventually ended in the 19th century, when is debatable, but once you had a gatling gun, a professional heavily armed force could mow down lightly armed forces without large casualties.

Chances are this development will be the final word (and certainly it has not had a huge impact yet, so maybe my speculation is premature), eventually there will become some expensive but exceptionally effective weapon only large governments can afford or supply, but 3-D printers making guns could have serious effects on the course of politics and warfare within the next few decades.

As the old curse goes, may you live in interesting times...
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I name all my hardware after entities and places in Lovecraft's universe. My dev laptop is called Azathoth, my main server Thalarion. My dev server Rlyeh runs Xen VMs Rlyeh0, Rlyeh1, ...

It keeps the names memorable and interesting, and can provide interesting conversations.
Of course, I really don't manage that much hardware, so this naming scheme is viable short-term.

If you ever run out of inspiration, check out this wiki: http://namingschemes.com/.
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WWW is actually 3 things: URL/URI + HTTP + HTML ;) Created based on the preceding ideas like Gopher, telnet, etc and some others as well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29

"On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due.[24] Coming two months after the announcement that the server implementation of the Gopher protocol was no longer free to use, this produced a rapid shift away from Gopher and towards the Web. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

Btw, I'm not disagreeing with you, the European idea of making things for "everybody" got into play there.
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One of my favorite ToS items is from LinkedIn: You aren't allowed to "deep-link to our sites for any purpose, (i.e. creating or posting a link to a LinkedIn web page other than LinkedIn’s home page)".[1] The act of linking to a publicly available website is against that website's terms.

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement
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There is a lot of legal stuff that I don't understand but one thing in particular stands out: "Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user". Unless I am missing something, that basically says "we got your signature once, and we can now put it on whatever we like".
> I've never come across a popen/shell call in a web app which looked sane or secure to me.

No true scotsman as applied to webapps? Someone else has already pointed out an example Wordpress - bet you don't consider it "sane or secure". (Not that I consider it the most secure thing ever, but I'm not the one trying to downplay shellshock.) You must admit that wordpress is highly popular and that there are many installations of it, and that the people running them aren't stupid.

Face it, the barrier for entry for writing webapp's is so low that anything web-facing should be considered possibly vulnerable unless proven otherwise.

Even web apps not doing 'crazy stuff' can be written by a lone web-dev who just learned PHP from a book in 21-hours. Not every web app is written by a top-tier, skilled web-dev's who's up to date on the latest best practices, with a clean design for user-input sanitization, and a team of QA folk trying to poke holes, and a dedicated security team auditing the code, deployed behind some sort of filtering proxy.

Hell, you'd think that with enough top-tier talent that bugs never happen, but even Google's been hit with a bug that exposed files from their servers; Facebook had that login security bug that they paid out for via their bug bounty program, Apple's security in the first bunch of revisions of iOS was laughable, and so on.
It's also really a pain now to get the borrow checker to be happy with boxed structures now that box isn't implemented in the compiler. You need to first borrow the whole structure, and then things within it.
They did a different zone every day, so ~24 hours.
Ask HN: Handling an international non-paying client
tl;dr foreign company hasn't paid my team's invoices, we probably can't sue, what else can we do?

I contracted with an overseas company and was paid for most of my work there. Unfortunately, the company hasn't paid my team for the last few months of our work. We're now coming around on 9 months since the due date.

The manager still promises payment but always has new excuses. The company has not gone under and actually has even hired new contractors, albeit in different divisions.

Due to the fact that this company is on the other side of the globe, a lawsuit is impractical.

Are there any other tactics we might employ, such as public shaming blogs, glassdoor reviews, etc?

edit: thanks for all the helpful feedback. Some more details: we have not worked for quite some time (basically after it was clear that something was wrong with payments). I've escalated this to the CEO, he/she has ignored our contacts. This company is in Australia and I am in the US.
Replaced it with Spideroak due to general privacy reasons beyond just Rice.
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But competition here has absolutely nothing to do with free-market economy that we have today.

> The AI will need to pay for its way, just like each of us do. If it succeeds into making us into paper clips, it will have to be equally as savvy in marketing and selling those paper clips to someone. Given the shipping charges to the nearest habitable planet are very high, their market likely will have to exist here. I'm sure as shit not going to buy a paper clip made out of you!

One, AI will not necessarily have to pay for anything. It may, or it could convince us to donate resources to it, or it could take them by force.

Two, why would you ever think that it has to market paper clips for anyone (assuming anyone is left)? It optimizes for paper clips, so it makes paper clips. Marketing is a way humans bullshit each other into donating resources so that they don't have to fight for them.

Three, what shipping costs, what buying? Again, AI wants to maximize amount of paper clips in the universe, period. It doesn't want to sell them (unless it leads to more paper clips). The only "shipping cost" it cares about is how much energy it takes to reach another planet, not some arbitrary dollar value people attach to movement of goods.

My problem with your answer is that it lifts market economy from something completely irrelevant to the level of physical laws. The only time an AI would care about it would be if - and only as long as - interacting with humans was a best strategy for that AI to achieve its goals - which is likely only at the very beginning, when it needs to gather enough power to subdue us.
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I'm curious whether they'll be accepted into the next round of YC.
This is great. Thanks for sharing it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

That 'half of Common Lisp' thing keeps popping everywhere, unless explicitly planned.
> Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run.

For everything else, there's Fox News ...
Yes, but there are plenty of scholarhips and need based funds at John Hopkins. So this way a rich student has no problem paying either through loans or cash, but a poor student will be subsidized to a large extent. Also, if you want to major in something that is not in high demand then great, do it but why should everyone else subsidize your choices?
It depends on how you use the term "visual programming language", which unfortunately has a lot of baggage around it. It is not sticking lego blocks together like Scratch or LEGO Mindstorms, nor is it the boxes with arrows pointing at eachother like Max MSP/Lab View/Blueprint/noflo, but it's also not strictly textual. The closest analog really is Excel or Access, but with the ability to describe how you translate one sheet/table to another one. Your main interface is a grid of data and a list of output tables. On top of that sits a set of domain editors though, to make drawing UI, for example, not an exercise in writing a bunch of rows out into a table. Instead you use a photoshop-like tool to just draw your UI. Same with doing math or string operations or flying drones or working with music and so on. We of course can't cover every domain, but what's interesting is that the editor is itself kind of like an editor of editors and it'll make it fairly trivial for you to build your own manipulable representations.
Indeed, and Pinto uses cpanminus. Carton, however, does not work well with mod_perl type systems, since you have to 'carton exec' your apps.

The whole thing is still a mess, though. For example, some dists never got put into CPAN at all; they were either one-off releases or were shipped in a Linux distro or a perl core at some time or another and then re-versioned for CPAN. So when you try to find the source via cpanminus, you can't, because it literally doesn't exist. So you can either upgrade or downgrade and face whatever incompatibility that means, or use perlbrew and maintain your entire perl stack for every app you ship. Unfortunately it turns out Pinto has a slew of bugs that require you skip all errors (ick). Let's face it, versioning and releases in Perl modules is a goddamn wilderness.
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You do realize that the obvious logical conclusion of this line of thinking, is to put "most criminals" behind bars for the rest of their lives -- or to be more economical sentence them to death?
>when expressing on HN political opinions which don't accord with the local consensus

This is the case not only with unpopular political opinions, but anything mildly or even vaguely controversial. I'm convinced that it's mostly the same few individuals who sit on HN all day and downvote away.

I've also wondered about the possible existence of a bot or bots that downvote comments with certain keywords, in a misguided effort to avoid any Reddit-like dilution of HN's usual quality. What makes me think it might be bots is the consistent speed with which mildly controversial posts get downvoted once or twice. It seems too regular to be human-mediated (and if it is, then I worry for the mental state of said human).
Actually, calculations on the social cost of smoking are complicated. We pay more for their healthcare initially, but they die younger so we pay their social security for less time. Depending on how you calculate it, smoking can be seen to be cost neutral, or even to save the country money.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/how-much-does-smoki...
We use this API to post notices into a Slack channel. It's been very effective.
Wow...I guess I'm happy for them. But here in the US that just makes me feel depressed.
I suppose the OP thought, like I do too, that it is obvious what positive effects come from fraternal relations with politicians.

Have you read the newspapers lately from ANY part of the world? Does it still need to be explained why, in general, being cosy with the politicos is usually a good thing?
Seconding on the SPJ book! It's a solid start for learning about the particulars of FP implementation.
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Juno is fantastic and we'll help them do whatever we can with LT.
> I didn't want to believe it, but it looks like HN is highly biased toward anything that has some VC behind it, flocking to it like it's suddenly going to change the world.

Considering who sponsors HN, the biases of the community it draws aren't that surprising.
I'm in Inbox employee. I'd be glad to answering questions about what we do, our platform and the rest.
"Politics" is discrete from ethics. Condi is a pariah, ethically speaking-- a war criminal walking free.

Political links to the US govt are also a bit of a hazard-- the more you willingly approach them and enable them, the more they will take from your pocket and the more they will push you around. The Snowden leaks have painted a bad picture of the US companies as a result of their compliance with ridiculous government policy, and these companies are being scrutinized fiercely as a result.
So basically it's a REST/HTTP wrapper for IMAP?

Also (and I'm serious): Why would any app (that is not an email client) need to directly access a user's emails?
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If I were a hacker running vulnerability scans, I would be calling myself a security organization too.
There is a general assumption amongst virtualised environment administrators that guests are securely separated. And yes, more code to run means more vulnerabilities.
It's not so much anecdotal as circumstantial. If everyone was taking the loan, you probably would too. It is the same in England, were students took loans for 3,5k pounds a year and now even 9k a year.

Now I am not saying that the British system is the ideal (pros and cons) but I can certainly provide some more anecdotal evidence of many people who study for free (in the Czech Republic) and are basically wasting the system resources (both in terms of taking up spaces in classes and having the tax status of a student). But possibly even better argument for tuition is the level of funding for universities. It certainly seems greater in tuition based systems (I know the US and UK one) vs government sponsored one (like the Czech one).
Hackathons promote the fact that your coding style should change depending upon the constraints of the programmer.

Having spent most of my career in R&D, I am constantly amazed by the fact that most folks keep the very same methodology no matter the budget, deadline, risk or importance of a project. Such people are one trick ponies that can only survive in a narrow set of environments.

Hackathons promote adaptation of approach. Spaghetti code is simply one possible result.
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