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If you do things properly, PHP is maintainable... C is maintainable...

The problem is "properly" is surrounded by a lot of people who slap stuff together, reinvent the wheel (NIH syndrome) or just plain don't know how to program.

I shudder when I look at old VB code... and thank God that I have VS2013, resharper and C#.

I think the issue people have is "it's never as good as it used to be". You remember the good, forget the bad and glorify what used to be the pinnacle of technology. Windows 75. XP. Blackberry. Palm. OH WHY CAN'T THEY HAVE JUST LET US STAY WITH PERFECTION!!!

Sorry... Let me get off your lawn before that becomes an issue as well. :)
The three points from the article:

> [1] Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.

> [2] High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their classes.

> [3] You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.

People wonder why high school aged students are unruly, unpleasant, and filled with deep negative emotions (anger, disdain, need-to-rebel). I look at this list (especially [2] and the lack of autonomy that follows) and the reason seems really clear. The basic model seems broken.
Another Things I Won't Work With entry: "Sand Won't Save You This Time"

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
I have about 3000 hours in Dota/Dota2 combined, I still refuse to play certain heroes because I don't know how to play them effectively yet(Invoker comes to mind). The learning curve for the base game is very high, then you have to consider that each hero is unique and has their own learning curve and when you have 100+ heroes it's very difficult to master.

The worst part is that even if you only like a few heroes, you at least need to be aware of every heroes capabilities or you will not do very well. If you don't know what every hero does you can't be sure that it's safe to engage in a fight.
It is almost astoundingly comical how the xenophobia & generally retrograde thinking of some elements in Israel, barely gets a mention, in mainstream American media narratives.

Racist Israelis Protest Against African Refugees! "N*ggers Go Home"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohJD7-zi7U

(Israelis, in Tel Aviv, protest a High Court ruling that declared internment camps for African refugees are unconstitutional)

Edit: Reversed word choice
> On the other hand, "staying in a bad marriage" is a misnomer - there's not really such a thing as a bad marriage so much as selfish participants. When one more both of the partners refuse to work towards a better marriage, it's practically impossible to make that marriage last.

Uh, there are totally such things as a bad marriage. If, say, your spouse became abusive over time from the perspective of the abused spouse it most certainly a bad marriage.

Marriage isn't a one time negotiation and you are stuck with whatever happens after that. Relationships require constant work and growth over time. If two people find themselves in a place where that relationship isn't working for them and even is outright harmful to their well being, they have all rights to end that relationship.
Xplorers Settlers (Online Game for Catan)
See http://www.masswerk.at/minard for a translation of the map's original legend (mouseover). There wasn't just a single movement of the army, but several troops were detached or left behind and rejoined later in the campaign. There's also a bit of a simplification in the map, as was pointed out by Minard, in order to provide the bigger picture of the events in the flow chart.
My guess is that the reporter simply doesn't understand consensus at a professional level. 'Blockchain' seems to be used as a buzzwordy shorthand for 'distributed consensus algorithm'. However, if you are interested in a blockchain-based distributed trustless store that does not require a huge amount of storage, check out: https://github.com/dominictarr/secure-scuttlebutt
Deep subject.

The block chain solves the distributed consensus problem in a way that is robust against attacks. That's what is so costly. Paxos requires that every node be trusted.

The problem the article is getting at is emerging as a core technology problem. Either your security is feudal, the you don't own it model, or you are responsible for admin. Few people have the knowledge or time for that. So in that model it becomes the Internet of someone else's pwned things. Now instead of your car not starting because you're late on a payment, your car doesn't start because someone who heard about your blog on 4chan doesn't like you.

I think solving this problem in a way that is neither feudal nor opens everyone to attack is a core tech problem of the 21st century. It's an engineering problem, and no I don't think the block chain solves it. Block chain schemes as a class are too heavy and have scalability problems. They can work in some domains but not this one, and not universally.
> My opinion is that once you meet someone that really clicks, then it works out quickly and well.

Usually that feeling of "click" passes after 2 years and transforms into a mellower , longer lastin kind of love. So if you stay longer, you see how you both fit together under this new kind of love.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was a minor work of Philip K Dick. The movie inspired by it, "Blade Runner" (the original version, not the director's cuts) was far, far better.

"Minority Report" was also a pretty forgettable short story, and this time the movie made of it was mediocre.

"A Scanner Darkly" was yet another minor PKD work that was made in to yet another movie. It seems this list of scifi books if partial towards books made in to movies. But just because they've been made in to movies doesn't make the original book good, much less great.

As far as PKD books go (which is quite far, as he is one of my favorite authors), I would recommend "Ubik", "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", and "Martian Time Slip".

And of his short stories, I'd recommend "Beyond Lies the Wub" and "Woof".

Gibson's "Neuromancer" is alright, but "Count Zero" is better. Avoid the rest of his work.

"Brave New World" is an incredibly overrated, heavy-handed propaganda novel, written without a shred of talent. Avoid.

"Dune" is great, though I prefer the last few books of the original (Frank Herbert) series: "God Emperor", "Heretics", and "Chapterhouse". Definitely skip "Children" and "Messiah".

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is utterly brilliant, and is deserving of a place on a top-10 scifi novels list.

I enjoyed "Foundation" and "I Robot" as a kid. Not sure if I'd still like them now, decades later. Likewise for "Farenheit 451" and "Ender's Game".

I haven't read "Atlas Shrugged", but I did read "The Fountainhead", which amounted to a very long-winded statement of Ayn Rand's philosophy with two-dimentional characters serving as mouthpieces for it. It could have easily been stated in 30 pages, but instead was stretched out over 600.
Interesting observation.

So then, for women, it is the above, plus this delicate balancing act: Make sure to marry a man who earns enough so that the combined household income is $125k+, while not caring much about his wealth.
Maybe its just me, but it seems vendors implement things the cheapest way possible, usually disregarding security. On the pack it will say 'Write Protect Switch! Protect yourself from HACKERS! Free trial of Symantec Bloat already loaded!' and the write protect will be easily bypassed.

Also, its not about 'them' selling you specifically a keyboard with a radio in it, it is about turning one of the 50 million keyboards with the XYZ Inc chipset into a persistent bootkit.
Maybe about the casual part but saying that the only difference is denying is complete wrong, they have extremely differing meta games and mechanics. LoL has an MMORPG element to it with character progression(runes, summoner abilities etc.)Dota has no such element, every player is even the second the game begins, prior games do not impact future games.
It's interesting but confusing :/
IIRC Firechat uses a central server, but sometimes over a bluetooth mesh.
It's also known as Analysis, which is the opposite of Synthesis. Analytic thinking is central to science.
Hyperion and the follow-up The Fall of Hyperion are great novels. I was however disappointed with the 3rd and 4th novels in the series - Endymion and Rise of Endymion. It seemed to me that the characters went through too many near-death experiences back-to-back. The reason I mention the Endymion series because of its version of space travel. The resurrection crush combined with incredible acceleration and deceleration (which kills the occupants every trip) was an interesting (fictional) concept.
> This really is the future of programming, in my opinion.

That is exactly why it is flame bait :)
True. I read the "future of programming" part as someone being really excited rather than accurate though.

Although the future of programming is probably declarative once we stop doing it ourselves and leave the implementation details to the AI writing the program for us.
The DB: http://pastie.org/9640114
Please keep the blinking reasonable and non-distracting. A lot of cyclists where I am have what amount to high-powered strobe lights aimed at car-driver's faces. I've also been the victim of this while riding my bike down canal paths at night. It's no fun being completely blinded while a fellow cyclist zooms past.
Using knitr and pandoc to create reproducible scientific reports
The Holder of Secrets
I never considered car racing much of a sport until I drove an indy style car with Mario Andretti Racing Experience. 8 minutes on the track driving 160mph with about 6-7 other cars was mentally and physically exhausting. Had an absolute blast and afterwards a much greater respect for car racing.
[Firefox dev] If you need help tuning, don't forget that we are available over IRC (irc.mozilla.org, #firefox, for instance).
resurrection creche for anybody Googling.
Stat #3 might derive from the fact that a person is more likely to survive a crash with a helmet on. If someone dies because they aren't wearing a helmet it will be reported as a death, but if they almost die and the helmet prevents death but they receive some brain damage then it will be reported as a brain injury.
There actually is kind of a history with betting and CS; the meme "bet t all" and a picture of a swat policeman petting a cat references this.

Basically pre-round or mid round you could bet some of your in game currency on a side winning. This let you recoup lost money which you could use to buy guns etc. the next round.

I always thought it was just a fun addition to the game but if you did it real time, round by round, with real money it could be cool too.
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Confirmed in numerous reviews, including the one linked to right up top.
man dput
You're welcome to think the future of programming consists of typing into text documents; I think it looks more like using a spreadsheet.

You're welcome to think the compiler and syntax are important; I think it's visualizations.

You're welcome to think the future is a grandchild of C; I think we haven't even begun the journey yet.
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Now Recognizes Same Sex Marriage
Yes, you are. Please do not troll on HN.
I have no objections to RainSunshine's commentary, it's actually quite valuable in the context. I just believe that whatever link they have to the site should be clearly disclosed, if such exists.
The wikipedia article you linked explicitly says that common stock is not a cash equivalent. I just quoted a sentence that says common stock is not a cash equivalent. Here it is again since you missed it the first time:

> Another important condition a cash equivalent needs to satisfy is that the investment should have insignificant risk of change in value; thus, common stock cannot be considered a cash equivalent
This was puzzling to me too, especially because there was also a correlation with wealth.

I'm peripherally involved in the wedding industry, as I play in wedding bands. Granted, I only see the weddings where the couple hires live music (not necessarily expensive). But I get to observe some things about the couple, their guests, and how much they spend. All of this is just my biased anecdotal guess:

You don't have 200 friends, so if you've got 200 guests, probably 180 of them are someone else's friends -- distant relatives, business associates of your parents, church members. Perhaps simply being part of a larger network of supportive people helps stabilize your marriage. Especially if you didn't invite them to impress them with your lavish expenditure.

It's just my impression, but it seems like the folks who spent 20k, were the ones who were sold a big package, perhaps because they are young and un-confident about their social stature. They're probably spending someone else's money. I have rarely if ever seen anybody spend that much if they're older than 30 or even 25.

So it's quite possible that the same marriage will destabilize itself when the partners develop their own independent identities, i.e., "change" to the point where they're no longer compatible. Folks who are more comfortable with their own identity may also be comfortable saying "no" to the dozen or more people who are trying to fleece them as they navigate the wedding industry.
Well... for starters, you could have the wedding at your local parish church, limiting the expenses of venue rental (and maybe achieving some other economies of scope). If you have an extended network of friends and relatives in the area, they could assist with food preparation instead of hiring caterers. Some guests and relatives may attend the service with their own family and children, bumping the attendance numbers, but skip the reception or send the kids home. Coming in under $100/head should then be easily doable.

Of course this pattern is probably well-correlated with the "goes to church regularly" set and may indicate a level of serious commitment to marriage as "'til death do us part", to say nothing of other demographic differentiation.
I was notified of the potential data loss and checked my data on the 'personalized web page.' Of the 12,000 files that may have been affected, I found only a subfolder of a few dozen photos that may've been removed.

The problem is that when I clicked 'restore all' from within the subfolder, Dropbox restored all 12,000 files rather than just the files within the folder.

Note to DB's UX team: when you place a Restore All checkbox above the lefthand file selection column, it means 'select and restore all files on the page', not 'lift the roof off my house and dump in all the shit I spent months decluttering.'
UK expects 'handful' of Ebola cases
This is a presentation of Kaya at the Future of Programming Workshop. The title is accurate. Shortened in a clickbait fashion, perhaps, but not "total flame bait".
Slightly off topic, but I'm genuinely curious why forward-thinking secular people in the west still want to get married. Historically, and still in many parts of the world, its arguably an incredibly sexist tradition that has its roots in religious and patriarchal control. In many ways it has been completely re-defined, at least in the west, and doesn't have any/many of those connotations any more - but it begs the question, why actually bother now? Why not just partner up with the person you love? Create your own private culture of love and respect between each other. How many couples stay in unhappy situations, and raise children in sad/angry environments, because of the stigma of divorce? Seems like this statistical fretting and min-maxing doesn't help that either.
Did you know that two basketballs fit, side by side, through a basketball hoop? Eyeballing things like this is almost never close to right.
How to Analyze Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack
How Humans Can Provide Better Knowledge Than Algorithms
I can agree with the sentiment that the plot didn't go very far, but I think that's okay, since the world opened up so much in the second book.
Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle is definitely worth a read. Valis [or is it VALIS?] is also an interesting read...in the psychotropic sense of "interesting".

I found Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep worth a read for the way in which it differs from the movie...the importance as status symbols of synthetic animals in the novella and its implications in regard to synthetic human lives a more compelling theme than the straightforward human rights theme of Blade Runner [or Alien from the same period in film].

What's funny is that I consider God Emperor and beyond to be the Dune series books worth skipping, but that's probably because they came out after I had read the first three...at the time, trilogies were the thing due to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Assimov's Foundation series [later to also be extended like Herbert's epic opus].
> Everyone who gets married knows that the possibility of divorce exists and roughly what divorce proceedings entail.

On the contrary, I had absolutely no idea how difficult divorce proceedings were when I got married. Maybe I was just naive and living in a bubble, but it was a very real shock to me that, since our divorce was amiable, my wife and I couldn't just go in to the courthouse and tell them we didn't want to be married any more. Instead the legal system forces an adversarial process on you.

Maybe this was just because my religious ideals caused me to not even consider divorce as an option. But even then, it's a very real thing and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person to have been in that boat.
Elephant spear hunting of the Mundari tribe
this has been known for a few months if you've been paying very close attention: http://deep-state.tumblr.com/post/91320197853/confirmation-t...

this is a subject i study nearly obsessively, though
Estonia Everybody! Freedom Reigned
The Sparrow is so good.
Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic but I'd rather say "Let's work to build our happily-ever-after". Same idea from the positive angle.
The glaring gender dilemma Silicon Valley venture capitalists are hiding from
The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
Honestly know what?

I am not refusing to post anything. I plant a seed. I know the answer. Anyone can google it just as well as I might be able to. Why does everything have to be spoon fed?

So someone finally was interested enough to research my claims and post a link. Here it is:

http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/55-mph-study.pdf

The article starts with this:

"In 1995 the Republican Congress repealed the 55-mile-per-hour federal speed limit law. At the time, the highway safety lobby and consumer advocacy groups made apocalyptic pre- dictions about 6,400 increased deaths and a million additional injuries if posted speed limits were raised. Ralph Nader even said that “history will never forgive Congress for this assault on the sanctity of human life.”

"...a million additional injuries..."

All bullshit as 20 years of history has proven.

So why the tone? Because this HN trait infuriates me.

Someone posts a factually accurate viewpoint that goes against the "HN culture" and they are mercilessly attacked here. It's bullying at it's best. The difference is that while most people just crumble and leave, I don't. And I am not shy about calling bullshit when I see it.

As to my choice to be short and to the point and even use colorful language. Well, I'd much rather listen to a man who presents facts with straight, even sometimes abrasive, speech out of the need to make an impression than waste any time listening to well-crafted, intellectually brilliant sounding, well articulated, refined, non-colorful, non-offensive language that is full of lies and manipulations...you know, like politicians or those on HN who take the time to write great sounding posts with lot's of links and research that, when you get right down to it, are hardly worth a handful of manure.

So there, someone, not me, was smart and inquisitive enough to ask: I wonder if this guy might have a point? And he or she posted a link to a pretty good PDF.

It echos exactly what I said: politicians, misinformed activists and even government agencies painted apocalyptic i ages of what would happen if the speed limit was raised. It was all nonsense. The exact opposite happened. And that is likely the case with this dumb 12 foot vs. 10 foot lane issue.

Of course, none of the HN down-vote kiddies are going to read this and say "Wow, this guy was right!", apologize and learn something.

No, instead they'll find some other justification for their hatred-driven down vote assault and move on to he next guy who dares to stand up for a truth that happens to go counter tho what makes HN kiddies feel good about themselves.

People, grow up.
That's awesome! Thanks for pointing it out.
In my baseless opinion, the "shame on you" radar signs are probably pretty effective. And definitely preferable to robot overlords handing out tickets. And doubly less offensive than charging people more based on income. At least here in the US, we have the concept that all citizens are treated equally in the eyes of the law. I don't want a system that intentionally punishes rich|poor|black|white|smart|dumb people more than any other.
> The supposition that it is always possible to learn to love the other person is as ridiculous as the supposition that people are static.

No it's not. What do you support that statement with?

> Everyone who gets married knows that the possibility of divorce exists and roughly what divorce proceedings entail.

> I would wager that very few people are as hot-to-trot as you are on the notion of honor in contract literalism

I've found that people's life experiences significantly shape their views on things. Friends of mine that come from family backgrounds with a lot of divorce have the same view that you do. I call it the "realist" view. The idea of a permanent happy relationship is viewed with pessimism, as an "unrealistic fairy tale", because they've either never seen such a thing or experienced it themselves.

On the other hand, I come from a family background with multiple, near-perfect half-century or longer marriages. Out of my entire extended family, only one person has been divorced. And I wonder -- the divorce rate is so much lower in my family (30 or so people) than the rest of society -- why is this? And I think it's the "hot-to-trot notion of contract literalism" that you so summarily dismiss.

There's something fascinating that I've begun to realize in the last few years, and it's that people assume everyone else is more similar to them (or people they grew up with) than is actually the case. Cheaters assume everyone else would secretly cheat, just like them, given a good enough opportunity or motive. Liars assume everyone else does the same. They find it hard to believe that people actually do exist that don't view the world through the same negative lens that they do, including people who will honor their word above all else. And there's more of them than you might think.

(Btw, I didn't downvote you. I wish people wouldn't use the downvote button to express differing opinions; that's what comments are for.)
Seems awesome from what I am seeing so far from just poking around.

Could you add a way to import assets easily so that they can be developed using other tools or imported?