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> You're describing MS Access.

MS Access is a higher barrier of entry to a developer who knows some other language but not SQL and just wants to throw on a datastore than MongoDB is.

It might be a lower barrier to entry to learn Access from the beginning than (programming language) + (MongoDB) -- though I'm somewhat dubious of even that.
You can certainly practice the basics and mental exercises: coordination, limb independence, polyrhythms, tempo, etc.. Those can already be practiced by mock drumming. What drummer doesn't finger-drum on the steering wheel? Obviously you won't be learning or practicing actual hand technique with this.
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> I don't know about the extreme of making everyone start their own fire

It's fun though! We do it nearly every weekend in the summer. It's also fun cooking on a wood fire - you set the heat by moving the pot around, stoking the fire, spreading the coals, etc...
> The full Facebook post, obtained by Bloomberg, contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.”

Is it necessarily anti-U.S. to accuse the government of immoral and unethical acts? Surely most of us would agree that the government is guilty of immoral and unethical acts, although political leanings might have us point at different specific acts.

It is concerning that, yet again, we see criticism of the government equated with being "anti-U.S." or somehow traitorous (even if in this case the actions arguably were).
It's my theory of why, anyway. In the U.K., BT (Openreach) has been pretty effective in leveraging the existing DSL infrastructure, pushing fiber closer to the home incrementally. While BT is required to let competitors use their wires, there is a framework in place for guaranteeing that BT gets a good return on these investments. There was never any such framework in place in the U.S. Without that, the basic market problem exists: why spend a bunch of money building infrastructure you have to lease to your competitors at cost?
Rubbish. You're trying to apply thesis standards to informal conversation. It would be one thing to critique if the original commenter had built a complex theory on an invalid premise, but jumping down someone's throat over the lack of supporting data in a two-sentence comment is overdoing it. My allusion to some current facts is not meant as a complete causal description either, but merely as examples of current news coverage.

I'm all for fact-checking, but HN is not Wikipedia, in the same way that current affairs coverage does not and need not substitute for a history book.
Especially because, in practice,

"> Our policies are improved when we appreciate that a hundred deaths are worse than one"

usually means

"a hundred deaths [of our in-group] are worse than one [of our team, plus a thousand of an out-group]"
It's not like they don't have regulatory agencies in the UK or Canada. It's a pretty weak, handwaving argument to just assert that their agencies are less prone to capture.
A great starting point is asking how many general purpose computers are on your phone. My count is currently 2-4. Your primary OS, the one you interact with. The radio baseband, which you don't have control over. Your SIM card which can speak to the baseband without your primary OS. Lastly depending on your storage, (SD Card) may have it's own cpu, but this (I don't believe in general) can be accessed by the baseband or sim card without passing through the primary os.
> Note, though, that the precise components of the Apple Pay cryptogram aren't publicly known.

So we have a hash function whose workings are known only to Apple and Visa, MasterCard etc.

I wonder how long that'll last.
"Minutes before the attack, Howard posted a message on Facebook saying he was 'about to take out ZAU and my life,' using the FAA’s three-letter call sign for the center, according to the FBI agent. The full Facebook post, obtained by Bloomberg, contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of 'immoral and unethical acts.'"

More evidence that it is literally impossible for the US media to 'suspect' a White non-Muslim to be a terrorist.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-26/man-charged-with-se...

"'WAKE UP!' said the message to those authorized to read what’s been identified as Howard’s Facebook page. “This is a gov’t by the people, for the people and of the people which right now equates to immoral and unethical acts. That’s why terrorists and 3rd world nations hate us, because our tax dollars go to more unrest than rest.'

"'So we deserve the retribution from people who do not have the same ability for education, work and way of life,' the writer said.

"'Take a hard look in the mirror, I have,' the poster continued in a portion of the message quoted by the FBI. 'And this is why I am about to take out ZAU and my life.'"
How so? I think that fewer accidents and much better data about exactly what happened in a given accident would mean less work for trial lawyers.
> This is not new, nor exciting advice.

It wasn't meant to be. The article is titled "How Exercise May Protect Against Depression," with "how" being the exciting part. Pretty much everyone over the age of 25 has an exercise made me feel better, durrrrrrrrr story; seeing the science behind it is what makes this interesting.
Twitter.

Hits a lot of typical language features but without being a huge time waster on any one. Database access, both stateful and AJAX GUI elements, users, email delivery, and with expansion if you so wish (e.g. hashtags, clickable usernames, tweeting at someone else, and so on).

Big enough to be interesting and feel like you accomplished something but simple enough so you won't spend weeks on it with little to show at the end.
Only in a web view. The point is that the JITed code is in an isolated process with few permissions.
At work, I refactor components with the new language.

At home, I do stuff like taking labs from stanford cs courses and translating to another language.
(4) do not meditate, having checked the evidence on this practice and found it wanting;

But have you personally tried it? The most important "evidence" may be how it affects you, personally.

In any case I'd be curious as to what your general assessment is on the body of studies claiming to show (apparently positive) impacts of sustained meditation practie, e.g. the following:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-im...
Drumming isn't all about playing at a zillion bpm. You can play with a band, jam with musicians, play along to your favourite music, exercise your creativity, record song parts, practice your independence, and most other things with Aerodrums. To say that you "can't have accurate timing, feel, and sound articulation" is just plain wrong, especially when you have never even tried it.
Have you not at all read the linked article? It is about this book.
PDF link: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130619/ncomms3061/pdf/ncom...

This is pretty cool stuff. Reading through the paper now.
I think the parent poster is talking about eliminating all known-vulnerable bash shells from his machine, not just having the default user shell change.
Yeah, I found the title misleading, too.

What is news to me is the explicit mention of WebViews. I remember this exception previously being for JavaScript in general, which I assume would include JavaScriptCore.

Does anyone know if they changed this before or after JavaScriptCore was introduced?
I'd like to see some statistics on this. I think you're right, by the way, but I hope you're wrong, and either way, I'd like to know the real answer.
What an incredibly short-sighted sentence: "Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.".

I could not disagree more with this article. Memorization helps, but MAKING CONNECTIONS between concepts is _HOW YOU MEMORIZE EFFECTIVELY_.

Memorizing is great for learning different languages. NOT MATH.

Sure, maybe students are bullshitting in understanding concepts, and forgot quickly since they didn't learn anything. However, just memorizing shit doesn't do anything. So many students in other cultures are being forced to memorize everything, and since they don't understand the connections, they cannot come up with the answer on their own. There was a piece on HN about a math teacher that was amazed by how little students knew: They memorized how to solve a particular problem instead of actually knowing why something was true, and therefore couldn't work through basic proofs and stupidly basic, foundational stuff.

A terrible article!
FYI: This comment will get downvotes. Not because people here are senselessly mean. But, because the HN community takes a strict approach to comments that add noise without contributing signal to the conversation. Downvotes on "Nice article!" comments frustrate many new users. So, here's your explanation. Welcome to Hacker News!
It doesn't support every unicode character yet, but it's getting there. For example, it recognized the Kannada character ttha (ಠ), but it doesn't know the poop (💩) character.
Totally agree. One small correction: sociopath, not psychopath.

Articles like this are just trying to making it ok/mainstream to be a sociopath, which is a TERRIBLE idea.
Don't see the point a blog requiring javascript enabled to load.
You can fire customers you don't want; you can't get rid of investors so easily.
I agree that empathy is ineffective for the social justice movement. We wouldn't empathize equally with a slave-owner and a slave, or a Nazi and Jew. Justice isn't achieved by listening to both sides and trying to find a middle ground.
To think if someone was to go up against the NSA today in a similar fashion, they would be in jail. Unless they were able to escape the country to hide out somewhere like say... Russia.
I think there's a huge difference between taking your own life and taking someone else's (although I don't have experience with either). In cases like this where someone is planning a spectacular suicide this type of partner system could help quite a bit.

It may not help stop dedicated attackers to have "no alone" zones, but I do imagine it'll make it more difficult for them to succeed.
"first modern smartphone" is a reasonable description, but I would say that Blackberry was the first modern smartphone and iPhone was the first mainstream smartphone.
She never really gave a definition of "understanding". Personally, I see "understanding" as exactly the way she described her method of learning. When I learned f=ma I did it the same way she did, but I would've called it "understanding".

In fact, "rote memorization" is the opposite of how I'd describe her method of learning. She says she learns language by using it in many different situations and learning the situations when it's usable and when it's not to be used. That sounds exactly like a search for intuitive understanding to me.

Rote memorization is more like using flash cards or scanning over a list of words and memorizing their definitions.

Contrast this with her method. She's playing with the subject matter.

I find that playing with a subject is the best way to understand it and to be able to apply it.
No, they were quite correct in context. Note that this was written in the 1980s, and the context was comparisons to contemporary versions of Fortran and BASIC, by which standard "goto" was -- and is -- infrequently used in C.
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It's not about technology, it's about redundancy. If you have two data centers, and you consolidate them into one data center, you've just increased your exposure to risk by orders of magnitude.
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Pacman.
Bandwidth increasing proportional with the square root of the storage growth is a pretty great trend. If anything that sounds like a plus.
That is not new advice.

By contrast the finding that well-trained muscles protect against depression by a mechanism involving breaking down kynurenine peripherally and thus preventing it from entering the brain is both new and in my opinion very exciting. After the fact it makes sense, but I would not have predicted it.

Incidentally, kynurenic acid in the brain is also implicated in schizophrenia, which makes me wonder if this will have explanation value beyond depression as well.

I find this an unexpected and delightful discovery.
As I said, I'm not assuming anything, and don't know either way. I suspect you don't either, so it's silly to reject the idea of migrating out of hand.
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>I learned Russian by gaining fluency through practice, repetition, and rote learning—but rote learning that emphasized the ability to think flexibly and quickly. I learned math and science by applying precisely those same ideas. Language, math, and science, as with almost all areas of human expertise, draw on the same reservoir of brain mechanisms.

Author approached learning mathematics in the same manner as learning a new foreign language (Russian), and it served her well.

Student focus on maintaining grades throughout school is sadly a detriment to slow learners who actually do need to spend the time to absorb, savour, play with and drill new concepts. I used to think I was a smart, but after years of successfully guessing the teacher's passwords[1] in class and on exams, I realized I only short-changed myself. Comparing against others with the benefit of age and hindsight, I realize now that I'm one of the slow learners who actually need an inordinately longer duration to thoroughly understand concepts than others.

MOOCs and other forms of self-study are great in this regard since pace-setting is now controllable, but rarely lead to a degree or credential one can leverage later in life. I'm glad that the author was able to apply her effective language learning approach to mathematics and science presumably within course durations (all the way to her PhD).

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/
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why not leverage freertos and contiki etc that is already in production quality and open source?
I go to Product News and Designer News. I find that the conversations are more focused there, whereas HN discussions can go any number of different ways. That variety is very valuable, but sometimes I'd rather just read about start strategy and positioning or the design of a site.
Have you considered letting the customer upload an image of their artwork so they can get an idea of what it will look like even better?.

Love the UX btw.
The Soviets also took maximum benefits from the scientists they brought back. An interesting thing is that the Nazi scientists worked for about a decade in the USSR to develop V1 and its improved versions, however, they were allowed to communicate directly only with the young engineers. They could never meet the senior board of engineers who were controlling the projects, giving instructions and making decisions ... all being behind the scene! ... The James Harford's book on S. P. Korolev (the anonymous chief designer of the USSR space program) gave me a lot of insights about this.
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For me, whenever I'm working on a meta-issue (laerning a new language, learning a new software pipeline, learning a new documentation/testing style), I like to pick a simple library in a problem domain I'm familiar with.

So, for example, I like doing a simple 2D vector math library--I am pretty familiar with the topic matter so I don't think about it much and can focus on how the language or whatever feels. I also can easily tell if the implementation is borked and can benchmark it as I try different things.

A simple entity system with messaging is another example of something that is simple and bounded but lets you try out different parts of the language.

A game of breakout is a really good one as well--combines both of the above, and lets you play with graphics and input and whatnot.

Then again, picking a problem domain that is deliberately outside what the language's sweet spot is not usually helpful--doing the math library in, say, awk or SQL might not show me anything those languages are good at. Doing Web content scraping in C would get me distracted with implementation details of the language instead of what it's good at.
Awesome, would be nice to see dancing fluorescent droplets merge in slow motion, video makes it seems like it happens nearly instantaneously.
My elderly aunt, who is 88 now, has Alzheimer's and while she's declining in cognitive ability now that her doctors have figured out her medications and dealt with some psychological issues her rate of decline has improved. The idea of somehow reversing her disease, or at least some of the major symptoms, is intriguing but there's got to a point where the treatment, however well-intentioned, isn't worth it.

But I can see the appeal for someone 30 years younger facing early-onset Alzheimers.
Linked to that article since it's linked directly by the University of New South Wales

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science/semen-secrets-how-p...

Otherwise, see what one could achieve by leaving out the flies in the headline altogether, leave it to the Brits:

Your baby looks like your ex? This research is scarier than Alien http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/02/baby-lo...

Could previous lovers influence appearance of future children? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11133203/Cou...

So I guess we just made it half-way through the science news cycle: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
If your data is "who talks at the meeting" then yes, it would be the same. But we have statistical methods to get data much better than that, including correcting for different response rates to surveys.

My argument is that we are predisposed, perhaps inevitably, to have more empathy with people like ourselves, and so removing empathy (rather than trying to fix it) may in some cases be the best way to get a fair result.
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I've never gotten CPAN to work reliably with any OS's included copy of Perl. As with Python and Ruby, if you want to use things not available via the OS's package manager, you're best off installing a separate copy.
Some libgen sites may be blocking IP addresses from certain countries. If so, try another mirror, or use a proxy.
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You don't see the point of the blog of a javascript web framework requiring javascript?
It's low. And more importantly, it didn't change after I added the popup.
What service do you use for that popup?
Was literally looking for EXACTLY this for the past two weeks. Will definitely buy in the next week or two :)
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You pay $x,xxx per semester so that your student ID allows entry to any of the institution's dining halls any time during operating hours.

Dining halls typically contain several stations with different kinds of food available at a buffet-style counter, and you can eat as much as you want. Some meal plans count entries; others are unlimited.

The system has its drawbacks, but keep in mind that:

- Dining halls primarily serve students who do not have access to (reasonable) kitchens. Forgoing dining halls would mean increasing the sqft/person ratio of the housing system.

- It is probably best that students with low discretionary income aren't in a position where they feel obligated to skip meals to save money.

- Dining halls are paid for by their customers. If you move to an off campus apartment (or even on-campus apartment-style housing), you are no longer obligated to pay in to the campus dining system.

The biggest offense, to me, is that dining hall systems are usually contracted out to huge corporations like Sodexo and Aramark. Dining plans can average to $12/meal, but the quality is several times worse than what I could buy at a restaurant for $12. My dining halls also employ (generally poor) adults from the neighboring community. While I guess this is nice, it's a little weird that we're the ones eating and they're the ones being served.

I'd much prefer that my university run its own dining halls, employ students to staff them, and not ask us to pay somebody's profit margin.
I'm not saying you should use that. It's just that "#!/bin/bash" shows 18 million results on Google while "#!/usr/bin/env bash" shows only 121,000.
Thanks for explaining. I'm just trying to get the point across that I just don't understand, but would like to. I happen to think that HN is a pretty reasonable and normal place to engage in discussions about these sorts of things, so it seemed natural to me to ask.

I can only ask you to believe me when I say I'm not being disingenuous here: I am genuinely curious about all this stuff, especially since I have no first- or even second-hand experience with it. I am sorry if I come off as somewhat clinical or detached... as I mentioned and we all know, it's very hard to get tone across via a medium like this.
I learned that's true thanks to this app http://human.co and their simple concept: move 30mins or more every day to stay healthy (the #daily30), inspired by "23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?" by D. Mike Evans