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> Visual Basic v1.0 hit that perfect sweet spot for a bunch of refugees from the DOS text mode 4GL languages to write Windows programs. They didn't have to learn the low-level C language or mess around for months with the Petzold book. Visual Basic had this ingenious abstraction called "forms" that hid the WndProc() monster and its messy switch case statements

VB also hit that sweet spot with me. I had no prior advanced programming experience (beyond silly "What is your name?" QBasic and VicBasic). It was a bridge to the OOP landscape we have today, it catered for zero-OOP (modules) but at the same time did actually have those OOP concepts that you could eventually transition to.

My nephew is much the same as me, he just "gets" computers and logic in general. I struggle to find a recent language that he can pick up and start having a rewarding experience, like I did with VB.
>This will not be great for everyone, guaranteed.

Good. As long as you are clear on your target market, that is good.
Secondary Energy Source: You'd Think That This Can't Be Correct
All 65,535 TCP ports open
Help Ria build the world's biggest dataset of wheelchair accessible buildings
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In Spain there is already a model with real data. There is no problem to finance, the main difficulty is politic will, not money.
Since you are not injecting money to the system there is no inflation. UBI is a tool for a redistribution of wealth.

Here is the model in spanish: www.nodo50.org/redrentabasica/descargas/RBnoinerte.pdf
Really cool write-up and awesome to see a really soft consumer product in YC. It looks like you actually want to take on Craigslist. I think it is definitely possible, however, it would need something really strong like YC behind it, but if you have YC behind you, it should be possible!
Why not wait for ES6, and use proper iterators and use them as they do in C#?

as in var evens = [1,2,3,4].where(x => x%2 == 0).toarray()

no ?
I only read the abstract of that paper, but it doesn't address the extortion. It only addresses _user_ fraud, such as leaving a bad rating on a competitor.

It doesn't address the fact that Yelp can manipulate reviews however they please, as the court ruled.
How is that? Is LoL moddable via Lua? Very curious what you did exactly!
How does someone get 100k in debt from undergrad? Is that a thing? I know folks with graduate and professional degrees from not-very-cheap institutions who aren't at the 100k mark. That's med school level.

I too haven't graduated from college, and I have had no trouble finding work because of it. AOL wouldn't look at my resumé, and I assume other large companies won't either, but there are a ton of startups and other shops that will beg you to work for them if you demonstrate a clear ability to excel in their environment. This is probably the most non-graduate friendly career industry out there.

Your first step should be to get a job, and QA sounds like a great place for you. You'd be surprised how easy it is to move out of QA and into dev if you can demonstrate aptitude for development tasks. Many people got their foot in the door this way, including myself.

Anyway, I bet this was cathartic to write, but I dunno what I was supposed to take from this. Selling illicit goods is a high-risk endeavor?
TSRI and UCSD hackathon aims to generate new biological and medical knowledge
Units are harder than you might think. If I write 1 pint do I mean an imperial pint, a US liquid pint, or a US dry pint? The foot is equally tricky.
This requires that the person writing the page gets it right, whereas with plain text we can rely on context to make a good guess at the unit that was meant.
So why don't they include two radars, one for sweeps and one for tracking? I know, I know, weight, power, etc. At the same time, isn't that the obvious answer?
How certain are the findings? It's so hard to tell with particle physics.
The speed was too slow and it was getting choppy
It's interesting to read the story of someone else who has profited from the exploitation of video games.

I did so from a more human perspective, I sold gold either bought from other player characters or harvested using automation in popular MMOs.

I would have never thought of it as a business. My income was steady for 5 + years, and not a day went by where I didn't consider the possibility of the game company wiping out all of my 'assets' in entirety, leaving me penniless had I not saved, and worst -- jobless.

Fun times. Thanks for writing this, although I think that "I would've been a great employee at..." is too speculative. It's so hard to say without actually doing it, it's not just your own skills/actions that you have to worry about in business.
"Ruby on Rails" isn't the Ruby programming language, they are two different things.

But no, Matz had nothing to worry about when he named his programming language Ruby. The Ruby that I worked on had long since become part of Visual Basic.
Visual BASIC 1.0 for DOS was the first one I learned. I was working for a community college and they had a BBS for Tradewars and other stuff. My supervisor and I tried to write a Tradewars game in Visual BASIC.

Later on we got the Windows version and it was fun writing Windows applications with it.

I got a job later on because I knew Visual BASIC and MS-Access 1.0 had just come out with Access BASIC that was like Visual BASIC and in 15 minutes I made a database in MS-Access to keep track of a record collection to get the job.

Visual BASIC really peaked at 6.0 after that Visual C# killed it, Visual BASIC.Net isn't as good as the Classic Visual BASIC.

I still work on VB 6.0 projects from time to time. I owned all Visual BASIC versions from 1.0 to 6.0 and I have the 2002 and 2003 etc versions on DVD that I barely used.

I find Python and Ruby to be replacements for Visual BASIC.
Whilst "unlicensed taxi" is probably too perjorative (although more accurate I feel) I would go with something like "Alternative Taxi"?

I suspect that it won't be many years before it's just plain "taxi" again. If Uber and other alternatives are proving the current companies are over charging they will just succeed in becoming licensed in a world of lower charges.
products such as?
It does not come off as credible to me without any actual details. The largest online games I can think of do not even have a market for items or do not even have servers/shards. Also why wouldn't you try to sell a dupe exploit to a gold seller like IGE. I know they buy them (and other exploits).
Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
Well, maybe not so much questions as honest feedback.

As a tech person, I'm amazed at the tech. As somebody whose greatest design skill is a straight line in Gimp, I find the graphics terrific and different from anything I've seen before in a game. However, as an RPG fan, the blurb on the Kickstarter page didn't resonate with me (apologies if you say more in the video, I had the sound off). There isn't anything about worldbuilding/characterization, or what the gameplay is about (considering that "RPG"s range from DCSS to Planescape Torment). You may also want to reveal some character models (even if they are just concept art).

I would definitely suggest stretch goals (for instance, you speak about supporting additional platforms, this could be one).

Oh, and hopefully you're reaching out to the usual suspects like Rock, Paper, Shotgun to get some coverage.
lol. I was totally going to say that!
For being a "Wing Commander"-like game, Strike Commander was surprisingly good and detailed. The manual was pretty interesting, with lots of information similar to the Quora answer.

The hardcore side of combat flightsim gaming for me was Su-27 Flanker (http://www.mobygames.com/game/su-27-flanker), published by SSI. So hardcore I never actually managed to complete a full mission! It was a bit dry, without any campaigns or any kind of career tracking, but man was it detailed! It made me fall in love with the real-life Flanker.

And of course, Falcon 3.0 by Spectrum Holobyte. Another awesome flightsim I spent a lot of time with but never managed to complete a single mission with. It was obvious this sim was a work of love.
Why don't we join together and stablish UNIVERSALY UBI? We are about to finish citizens initiative in Spain. Switzerland is about to make a referendum. UE is discussing it on parlament... This is a global conversation. What inmigration?
> Somehow I dislike it more than Experts Exchange

Someone needs to make a Stack Overflow to Quora's Experts Exchange (preferably by just using the Stack Overflow codebase/framework).
VB was about getting stuff done. Ugly, awkward, convoluted, nowhere near a real programming language. But, the things you could build. Fast. In no time, you had something that worked, installed anywhere, no approvals, no app-stores, no complicated deployments. Microsoft miserably failed to scale it to the web, and with some efforts - to mobile. They just drove developers away, and till today we do not have a similar tool for the semi-developers, the hobbyists, the lawyer who wants to make some app for his office.
Then what happens to operations that access the collection? like third argument in JavaScript's native forEach?
With the car getting further away, the speed sensation diminishes. The lighting effects help with the compensation.
A more sober translation seems to be:

And the gray-eyed goddess herself bestowed on them every art, so that they surpassed all mortal men as the best workers with their hands; and the roads bore works of art like living, moving creatures, and their fame was profound.

Which perhaps doesn't carry the same implications as the rather florid translation you quoted.
>"lines and arrows" Ruby interface, where you would drag an arrow to connect an event emitted by one object to an event target exposed by another object. He's right that this ended up not being a usable programming model for VB.

Fascinating. It's interesting that the modern Qt Creator IDE (for C++) has something similar for its signals & slots mechanism. It has the ability to draw a line from the "signal" (event) of one control to the "slot" (event handler) of another.

I've seen several demos[1] highlight this operation but I don't know anybody that actually follows that procedure. They'd rather just type in the text editor: connect(src,SIGNAL,dst,SLOT);

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtyCM4BTbYo
Obviously photoshopping services online are hardly unique, but it is a bit different. For people who want photoshop work done, it's got a pretty simple upload / describe what you want done interface. It also allows you to set your own price -- but you won't be charged until you're happy with the work.

For photoshoppers, it guarantees payment and allows you to easily see what they want done. It also provides an easy place to look for work that you want done.
10mloc product here, about 1 month for a university rookie.

Once you get over, I guess, 500kloc you start having teams with extremely distinct responsibilities (50kloc to 800kloc depending on the complexity of each team's responsibility). This means that you only need to care about your slice of the product. Knowing what's going on with the other systems makes you immensely more productive, but you can actually get places with just knowing your slice.

In terms of mastering the entire codebase? Most likely 6 years: that's about how long it took me.

It's a very strange place to say this, but working on a massive codebase (as opposed to a startup) gives you a very rewarding skillset. I would definitely recommend it if you are considering diving into a massive existing codebase. At the end of the day, the more you know [how to do]...
Dropbox Dudes Tried to Kick Children Off a Soccer Field
Maybe the kindle is just a desperate attempt to save some of the book business for Amazon. You are thinking too short term. Sure, maybe it will be a quasi monopoly for a while. But in the long run, why should people stick with the kindle? Other convenient devices and services will crop up making it seem very inconvenient to be tied to one vendor.
Perhaps you are right about the karma, but you should understand that I loved playing those games too. I knew I could have ruined their economies if I were careless or released the hacks publicly. I actually monitored a control group of servers where I did no duplication, and their economies were nearly identical to those where I did. Overall, I used the exploit on only about half the servers. If there had been a glaring difference, the game developer probably wouldn't have thought it impossible to have existed when I asked for a bounty to divulge it.
with regard to Berlin, weather, etc... - my meager experience of recreational runner matches it exactly - the best environment to run has been near Baltic Sea during Fall, soft, cool, almost mist air which cools you off and is absorbed by lungs without strain. The article doesn't mention humidity - it shouldn't be too heavy, yet dry air wouldn't work that well with lungs.
Tesla P85D – 3,5s acceleration and autopilot demo
I'm surprised by how few people on HN feel contracts have a moral obligation aspect to them, but once you believe there is no morality in a legal contract, then a whole lot of things become permissible, specifically related to pirating and other kinds of legal trespasses.

Do you believe in individual responsibility, then? That is, if I, your friend, promise to give you a ride to the store and then don't follow through, am I morally culpable?
I started on VB5/6 and I wouldn't recommend it now, but I believe the language is not that important but the general concepts. Vb6 is a weird language nowadays because is very bad at OOP, is not functional, etc.

Another reason I'd discourage it, is because the language is tied to the IDE/editor and is very difficult to do something without it. Also there is not opensource community around vb6 and there is not much code to look at or to contribute in github. Even if the 'new project' dialog offers you several types of applications the language is very limited to desktop applications and com components.

VB.Net is very good and modern language and it has some interesting features.

I'd rather introduce programming in a nix environment using the unix way, write a shebang here and pick the language you would like to use. Learn file descriptors, stdin stdout stderr, process exit status, pipes, etc. Learn to write small libraries and programs that solve very specifics problems.
I don't think the camera actually records heat, but rather the black body radiation which is a function of an object's temperature, which is therefore light.
The author has NO control whatsoever of your data.

- Pigshell is a 100% client-side Javascript app. There is no server side. pigshell.com is a dumb static html/js/css server.

- All data (username/password as well as user data like photos and files) travels directly between the user's browser and the provider (e.g. google.com, facebook.com). pigshell.com is not involved at all.

- Pigshell is free software - you are free to download the source code, examine, modify and run it locally yourself. (https://github.com/pigshell/pigshell)

- Our privacy policy is minimal because we know NOTHING about you - not your name, email address, facebook id, nothing. Only your IP address is recorded in apache logs, which is the case with every website you visit.

What is more, we don't want to know. Pigshell has been deliberately designed so as to afford maximum privacy and freedom to the end user.
Sounds a lot like the web of the mid 2000's with XML and XSLT files.
Very high divorce rate and overall fading religious beliefs.

Only benefit to marriage is income tax relief for stay-at-home moms/dads.
Going on a tangent here: this benchmark highlights the difficulty of sorting in general. Sorts are necessary for computing percentiles (such as the median.) In practical applications, an approximate algorithm such as t-digest should suffice. You can return results in seconds as opposed to "chest thumping" benchmarks to prove a point. :)

I wrote a post on this: http://www.silota.com/site-search-blog/approximate-median-co...
Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety
Definitely an interesting article. I do think two points are worth mentioning:

1. China's 'reserve army of labor' hasn't necessarily been exhausted yet. Wages in the inland provinces still lag those found in the coastal provinces, and government policy is at least nominally trying to encourage investment and development there in an effort to close the gap. Smaller countries looking to jump-start their economies through export-driven industrialism may still need to compete with those provinces and should keep in mind their advantages and disadvantages (e.g. high freight costs).

2. It isn't enough for high wages alone to drive low-paying factory work out of China, Vietnam, or the other major manufacturing nations. Quality infrastructure, a reasonably well-educated workforce, political stability, etc are all contributing factors. Leaving aside the debate over whether export-driven industrialism is good or not, rising wages provide an opportunity for smaller countries to capture these jobs, but only if they take the initiative.
We use a startup called TrueAccord at WePay - they're trying to disrupt this industry using data: https://www.trueaccord.com/
Sociopath may be a bridge too far, but there's definitely something very, very off about the way the author describes his scam as a business, and the apparent lack of emotion with which he describes the events in his life. It's cold and factual, and all "me, me, me".
Draggable arrows reminded me of XCode's Interface Builder.
I know what it's like to be you. In the long run, you and your future projects will benefit far more from #1.

There are plenty of reasons why waiting X amount of time will ultimately have little impact on the success of your product. And even if someone launches first, there are plenty of ways that you can still win.

Moreover, based the scope you described in the linked post, it's likely you could learn to chop together what you're looking for within two months of hard work. There are more than enough tutorials on related subject matter that you could use to piece together a functioning version of what you're hoping to achieve.

Go with #1; hope for #3; meh on #2. (I hope someone disagrees and gives you a good alternative viewpoint.)
Chrome and Firefox block requests to port 25. At least Firefox says "This address is restricted: This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection." But Chrome just says "This webpage is not available".
What indications are there? And isn't what you describe just a very inefficient system for distributing money? Why not free up the workers and try to find something new for them to do?
How is it an obvious solution if it is not practical?
The electronically-scanned radars mentioned in the second answer can easily divide their time between the tasks (no mechanically-constrained dish to sweep) but there is definitely no space for two radar systems in the nose of a fighter.
This is awesome, I love it. I want to try it but don't know what to ask
Yes. My point is that coughing and sneezing is something that humans do for their own benefit, not for ebola's.
See also: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Thank you for expressing it better than I had. When I tried to see my actions from his perspective, that's when I wanted to apologize.
I went to a school (Middlebury) with pretty generous financial aid and ended up owing ~80K in student loans after four years. I picked Middlebury in part because they were the only school of their type to offer full need-based financial aid. For reference, I graduated in 1997.

100K in American undergraduate debt unfortunately does not sound surprising.
what you said and decentralized marketplace could emerge with bitcoin, where marketplace works like a blockchain explorer. Craigslist + bitcoin = Alibaba
Another interesting aspect is the Lock-On detection of the enemy aircraft. Aircraft are able to identify when they're being tracked by other aircraft or homing missles. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_warning_receiver
From my experience VBAs used a lot in the corporate world. Learning VB in high school can be of great use in the future if you're not looking for a tech career. Front-end MS Access, Excel Macros, screen-scraping, vb script to call SQL queries can all give you a leg up in a non programming career path.
I can get brutal honesty on Reddit for free. (And polite honesty, also for free, from Dear Abby.)
>If anything, they were morally bound to forgive the debt in it's entirety

well, that's debatable. Imagine the consequence if agencies were obliged to forgo demands like that. They would do the opposite of what they set out to do, which they surely deem highly immoral.
Angry man: WHADDAYOU WANT?

Man: Well, Well, I was told outside that...

Angry man: DON'T GIVE ME THAT, YOU SNOTTY-FACED HEAP OF PARROT DROPPINGS!

Man: What?

A: SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS TOFFEE-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!!

M: Yes, but I came here for an argument!!

A: OH! Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse!

M: Oh! Oh I see!

A: Aha! No, you want room 12A, next door.

M: Oh...Sorry...

A: Not at all!

A: (under his breath) stupid git.
You don't think $10 for someone's opinion is a tad pricey?
But will it be a thoughtful, well written response?
Why shouldn't you follow Steve Jobs?
perhaps stating the obvious here, but with the abstraction pigshell provides of resources on the web, it should be reasonably straight forward to build arbitrary "internet applications" too.

with deferred pipes, split and joins (that pigshell already provides/supports) it should be possible to implement arbitrary work/data flow definitions one desires.

coupled with psty, one could build/harness special purpose "transformers" on the web

pushing it further, one could conceive of setting up pipes between transformers on the web.

of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well.

[and then someone will figure out a way to interject ads]
Lock On! used to be a favorite of mine, no idea how well it runs on modern OS'es.
> Exploiting Market Inefficiencies == A More Efficient Market. The whole idea of "buy low, sell high" is exploiting inefficiencies in pricing, which is all HFT's are doing.

There's a difference between pricing inefficiencies and technology inefficiencies. In theory there should be equal access to markets. This is why SEC laws on disclosure exist. When people with greater technological ability can, in effect, toll everyone else, you are eliminating this idea of equal access.

> The HFTs are HIGHLY incentivized to not destabilize the market because they stand to lose a LOT of money if they make a mistake.

So are all traders, but that doesn't stop things like Enron and Lehman Brothers from creating smoking holes in our economy. When you start creating legal fictions and technologies that are barely understood by those that create them, much less those that provide executive oversight, government oversight, or the general public, you are getting into very dangerous waters.

Software only works as long as the assumptions of the programmer stay valid. HFT quants are incentivized to make their companies money, not to protect the market at large. An application on a desktop computer crashing and exhibiting weird behavior isn't a big deal. A HFT process going rogue is going to cost a company millions or billions of dollars at best.
I copied the following comment onto a post-it: "stop trying to be clever and start trying to be done"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602816 (6 months ago on Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses)
I think one of the main areas of interest would be raising lactate threshold to delay OBLA. That's the main limit/inhibitor for endurance events.

I'd expect the next generation of drugs will focus on things like improving monocarboxylate transporter throughput/efficiency.