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I learned programming in BASIC, in 1981, then spent some years with Turbo Pascal, HyperCard, and eventually VB. I spent upwards of a decade with VB before switching to Python.

I'd have a couple problems with VB as a teaching language. First, there's the business of building GUI's and navigating the project structure. These are not the basics of programming, and are layers of abstraction that obscure the underlying code.

Second, even if there's a free version, it's an enormous bloated download, and only runs on Windows. Python can run on any reasonably modern computer, including the Raspberry Pi and its ilk.

Third, Python is more "cool" right now, meaning that there is a lot more interesting code and projects being shared and discussed online. I actually consider this to be an advantage for my own use of Python at my day job.

Now I think both groups of students will come away with a decent grounding. Those who get into programming will learn more than one language, and I'll bet that there's little correlation between who's a good programmer and what language they started with.
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Blah.

I remember when the speed limit was raised from 55 to 65. Politicians paraded all kinds of studies from engineers, PhD's and mothers crying on TV. The claim was that blood would run down our streets and highways. The effects of making this change, the "experts" and politicians said, would be cataclysmic.

What happened in reality?

Nothing of the sort. Actually, some of the opposite. Accident and fatality rates went down.

So I call hogwash. Maybe this guy has some sort of bias, financial or political interest in this idea. Maybe it is about hiring a million new union workers across the nation to repaint all of our streets and buy votes for the democratic party in 2016. Maybe it is about giving a few huge corporations juicy contracts to try to buy financial support and votes for republicans.

I don't know. My life is about science and data. So, yes, I do value honest studies with solid data and conclusions. I also know that you can't take a sentence or two our of a study and quote it completely out of context to support your case. When put into context the reality of the study could be very different and the conclusions could be really flawed.

Ask almost anyone who drove pre-65mph how they feel about the change to 65. I would be surprised if anyone said it got worst. It's a lot more relaxed. You don't have to be constantly focused on the darn speedometer or become a human highway patrol detector.

In fact, I think the speed limit ought to be raised to 80mph. People are not suicidal. They'll drive at whatever speed is safe and comfortable for them. On average, today, that seems to be somewhere around 75 to 80mph, except when CHP gets on the road and everything slows down causing traffic backups, etc.

If we are really that concerned that blood will run down streets it is a relatively simple technological matter to legislate that no automobile sold in the US can go faster than, say, 70mph. An automatic speed limiting system could also be put into place to limit speeds everywhere in real time. A low power emitter in every traffic signal in the nation could tell cars what the max speed limit might be and the software in the car keeps you from exceeding it. Done deal.

If the issue is so serious let's just do that. I'd rather have cops devote their time to chasing bad guys than hiding behind a fence to give dumb traffic tickets to all the mommies taking their kids to school during the first week of class (happens almost every year here).
You are correct, I am not an American citizen at all :) I guess what you said is true for any government but does it really matter? They get what they want in the end. Be it Alexander, FBI or someone from my country.
2 words:

General Warrants

More than 2 words - If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

You get into situation where you tell a prosecutor - find this guy guilty of something and throw him into jail.
> That's just plain old FUD, nothing new under the sun!

LOL. AVM, biggest german manufacturer of soho routers (Fritzbox) suffered from a RCE vulnerability; hackers pwned the boxes and made highly expensive premium calls.
Obama is at the W Hotel, SF. 90 min commute times between SoMa and Marina
In my experience, there's little reason to do it alone.

Handle whatever you can (the non tech stuff), you'll be able to narrow down a lot based on non-technical factors (like years of experience, projects in their portfolio, etc). When you're ready for the tech screen, call in a favor from someone you trust. Ask them to spend an afternoon grilling your candidates.
Give it a bit of time. He is going to reply personally and probably got dozens of questions. It might take a day to reply to them all.
The trailer for this Edward Snowden documentary is absolutely chilling
Yeah sure, let's see how many insecure people he can find to charge before we class it as a bad idea.
Who the fuck cares if you don't see the need. It is a niche product, like an impulse buy in a supermarket. I don't see need for 99% of the crap what is sold in a dollar store, but the dollar store is still a quite solid business.

That said, I just bought my advice, paid but I still don't see email. Damn.
The standard of the average academic/research paper is low enough that very few stand on their own. This, of course, is the reason why certain media outlets are able to make lots of money with bi-weekly, likely untrue claims that <insert thing here> "causes cancer".

This article repeats some conclusions from various research efforts of unknown (to me) quality, most of which carry caveats, and none of which were titled "Effects of Lane Width on Pedestrian Safety: A Quantitative View". These weak (not pejorative, just opposed to strong) statements are then used as the base assumptions atop which a logical argument is constructed - an argument that is incomplete. The relationship between speed and mortality is only attacked from the perspective of what happens once a collision has taken place, for instance, but there will likely also be a relationship between speed and the level of caution exercised by pedestrians, but no evidence about this is presented.

This is a question in need of comprehensive study; the tidbits presented here are neither strong nor complete enough to say anything absolute, much less accuse anyone of having blood on their hands.

Personally, I think such a study would validate much of what the author feels. But it is only my gut that says that, I'd need a study to "know". As such this comment is not meant as a criticism of the author or the thoughts in the article, but more as a sort-of defensive reminder of what the scientific method means.
What an odd title. Higher wages could end poverty, which is defined by, you guess it, wages?

The more interesting thing here would be: are wages rising as fast as we would expect them to? I'm pretty sure even the most incompetent administration can't possibly produce both a system that grows the economy by double digits yearly yet keeps wages low, and still stay in power.

But there are certainly ways a countries administration can go to make the upswing benefit only parts of society, and benefit those already in the higher echelons vastly more than those lower.
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Thank you and others, I think I see now. Though I think retaliation (fines or maybe some jail time) would be more effective measure to prevent abuse than passive dismissal.
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Figures that seem like they are moving, or figures that are actually moving?

There's a huge difference between a good sculpure vs a simple machine.
He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them.

For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He is going to have a reasonable dialogue pertaining to your question/concern. If you say "No bro, I am not looking to score" he will ask "OK, well what are your intentions? What is your actual concern with your outfit?"
Is this some kind of ironic/tongue-in-cheek thing? I feel like some of the people in this thread are taking it too seriously.
People buy stuff off Amazon without playing with it first all the time? I did & I'm not even in the US (Kindle).

I can see a Manhattan store working as a novelty type deal but beyond that Amazon is online in my books.
I can see the headlines...

Silicon Valley capitalizes on "penny for your thoughts"
Iteration is slow and expensive. With web software you can iterate (change - release - get user feedback) daily. Hardware takes weeks or months to iterate.

You always need more iterations than you think to get to a great product.
Reminds me of http://www.assholeconsulting.com/
> like: "you interrupt women more often than you do men"

Nice enlightened example.
Which part is the nonsense? The stuff on the sides? What do you mean by "rolls into the comments section without warning"? (Honestly curious.)

I think the content is often pretty good! YMMV I guess.
That is correct, but the warrant requirement does not follow common sense. Let me try to explain further with an example. A sends a letter to B with information in the letter that implicates C in a crime. The FBI does not have a warrant to open and search the letter. The FBI goes ahead and searches it anyway. Now, the FBI has evidence that C was involved in a crime. C, obviously, would like to challenge the search based on the warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment. It is here where the warrant requirement diverges from common sense. C does not have "standing", which is a legal term of art that basically means the court can hear and decide the case, to challenge the search because the mail was not his. Therefore, without standing, C cannot challenge the search even though the FBI did not have a warrant for the initial search. In contrast, A would have standing because he has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in his own mail (assuming there was incriminating information against A in the letter).
That's the most important thing. It's private. Also, redditors tend to tell others they are the most beautiful unique flower in the world, when everyone else sees a hideous ogre. This is why a service like this is so much better.
I like the sentiment, however I think it'd be cooler if you could get the Facebook, Google, and other APIs to behave in the "everything is a file" tradition of UNIX.
I almost wish an api like this existed today!
http://www.codementor.io/, although you'll probably end up paying $30 for 15 minutes, since 5 minutes aren't enough to explain your question.

I saw it here, and I've been mentoring there quite successfully, although I haven't had any clients with really advanced questions yet, only beginners. I am looking forward to helping people with hard design issues.
Wait no. The 4th amendment is an unalienable right. It doesn't (shouldn't) matter where in geologically a person or his property are.

We can think about it this way. The United States (well, certain bureaus) do not believe that the Bill of Rights contains unalienable rights because:

1.) Foreigners ("aliens") are not 'given' what is presumably 'unalienable' to them (e.g. GitMo)

2.) Snowden Docs (in particular the US) shows how intelligence agencies will spy on one anothers' citizens on their behalf to skirt domestic law. A serious commitment to unreasonable searches and seizures would entail protecting citizens rights from foreign actors, not encouraging it. And it would also refrain from doing it to others.

3.) Fair trials are suspended where convenient, even before executions (e.g. Americans overseas, Bin Laden).

By tautological definition there are no 'extreme' circumstances under which natupal rights are no longer granted; for natural rights are not given, cannot be taken away, suspended or invalidated by geolocation.
> Even paraphrased, it doesn't make logical sense: It should be really easy to prove that you have a duping exploit in a game, so why didn't the prospective-buyer at least ask for a demonstration, or why didn't the OP offer such a demonstration? It's just too convenient.

Agreed. Most dupe hacks are not found by report, but by database analytics.

It's an extremely easy phenomena to spot, and in my experience the only games that allow such a problem to exist for any period of time are games that are either operated by a single person and lacking in employee resources to deal with the problem, or games that are so old that they are no longer concerned.
I view that form of thinking as a very slippery slope. The government should get what it wants, but what it wants should be defined by the people. Currently, in the HN community, the view of what the government is doing and what the rules are aren't aligned. Thus, we are pushing for rectification. We've got to take a stand somewhere. That's the only way progress is made.
"Identity is theft of the self."
The idea is that if you allow evidence which is gathered illegally you incentivize the gathering of evidence illegally
Usually the consultants I pay or meet are much more expensive than $10.
This begs the following questions: Did the Icelandic government give FBI permission to hack a server that resides on their sovereign soil? If the identity of the owner of a piece of property cannot be confirmed, it's okay to sieze/hack/etc? If I hid evidence in YOUR car, wouldn't the police/FBI still need a warrant or at least permission from YOU to access it?

Bottom line here is there was no warrant, and as far as I can tell, no attempt to gain any sort of permission to access property-- and in a foreign country no less. I thought the FBI's purview was limited to domestic soil.

Anyone here a security expert with experience with TOR? The FBI's claim that they just typed random values into a login to accidentally reveal the server's IP address seems far fetched.
I've been to LoL HQ and talked to the founders. The offices were fairly dungeon-esque (to be fair I mostly saw the lower levels), but all the employees seemed to be having a blast. I asked one of the founders about LoL being considered a sport, and he argued fairly aggressively in favor of it. He asked me if I considered NASCAR a sport. I said no, and the conversation ended there.
Scott--
Sorry to hear about the bad times. Don't quit, and don't let no discourage you!
Notes and examples of Transducers and Reducers
https://gist.github.com/runexec/06b56a9dbd15e43145b9
> as state DOTs widen highways to reduce congestion, in complete ignorance of all the data proving that new lanes will be clogged by the new drivers that they invite.

Let's see a cite to that data, because it seems ridiculous. Obviously if you make a road less congested people may start preferring it to other, more congested roads, but that just means the reduction in congestion is distributed rather than concentrated, and how is that a bad thing?

The entire premise of this article is questionable. The theory is that people will drive more carefully when the roads are more dangerous. From this the argument is that we should make the roads more dangerous in order to make them safer. This is obviously completely counterintuitive so they point to some evidence that it could be true (which itself seems to imply that its veracity lies near the statistical margin of error). The real problem is that it's a false dichotomy. Making the roads more dangerous is not the only way to make people drive more carefully. And alternative ways of encouraging people to drive more carefully are obviously preferable to a method that, at a given speed and level of care, is more dangerous according to the laws of physics.

More than that, this “make the roads dangerous to make them safe” is completely backwards when we're on the verge of commercially available self-driving cars. A self-driving car is obviously not bound by human psychology, so for all of those vehicles, making the roads more dangerous will only make the roads more dangerous.
I've already read that story about that cyclist who killed a man. Do you have 2 different ones?
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This logic seems like it would apply to cell phones which have been subsidized by a contract which continues to exist as well. Aren't they considered to still be legally the phone companies' till you've reached the end of said contract?

Bad indeed.
Yes, generally rude whilst ignoring the consequences (honesty should not be used as a 'get out of jail free' card).
If it's the right product and the right people I'll work in a sewer pipe...at night...in COBOL...

The creature-comforts only start to matter to me when I'm fundamentally unhappy with the job in some other way (not rewarding, incompatible culture, etc).

So my utopia is: A product I believe in, co-workers I love to be around. That simple.
Eh, no. The credit-card info and money is taken already, before any response is given.
I think OpenWRT's hardware support is limited primarily by the availability of open-source drivers. They'll ship proprietary firmware where necessary, but proprietary drivers prevent them from updating the kernel at will.

One of my spare routers (came free with purchase of a cable modem) has only 4MB of flash storage, and recent builds of OpenWRT have had to strip out the web interface but in exchange gained IPv6 support. It's also got only a 350MHz MIPS 24k processor, so it's too slow for serious use with any connection faster than ADSL2. There's a lot of router hardware out there that's just not up to the task of being a home gateway anymore.
That's a very strange opinion you have. It isn't necessarily supposed to be helpful, but rather truthful. How many people are comfortable asking someone on the street for complete honesty? Very few. The ones who are, are not the target market for this service.

To me, his bio says "I am a pretty average guy, with above average intelligence. I am the guy you are trying to impress at the bar, I am your bro who never invites you to the gym, I am in the front row of your concert."
OK. I'm not associated with the service, but as I'm in tough spot in my business, I'm looking for some advice.

Considering that usually the going rate for the people I employ is something like $50 to $150, $10 for advice seems quite cheap.

For your arguments:

1. Why would I care about the heading? I don't care if the guy is cheap or not, I just want honest, brutal feedback for once.
2. Well the guy has focus, I prefer buying from a guy that invests in the thing he does instead of secondary thing like a logo.
3. Again, who cares?

... yadda yadda. In this case the website look doesn't matter, but the copy.
Even though I'm a C#/F# programmer, I'll offer a better defense of VB.Net:

* Method resolution (I actually prefer C#'s but I can see the advantages of VB)

* XML Literals

* Many more query comprehension operators than C#

* Don't have to put `Select` at the end of a query comprehension expression

* Filtered Exceptions (coming in C# 6)

* Ability to call module functions without fully qualifying the name

* The `WithEvents` and `Handles` keywords
Your statement is not applicable to West Palm Beach or any other locale along the Gold Coast. That area has some of the densest population in the US.
I am not sure what the point of that comment is.
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I'm seeing a lot of resistance to the idea of narrower city streets on this thread. The advantages of narrower city streets (and hence, crossings) goes far beyond safety. It actually enhances quality of life in a significant way. A wide, four lane highway running across your town basically says humans must come encased inside an automobile. Pedestrians and cyclists become second class citizens. It's a design driven for the convenience of cars and to the detriment of humans.

Here's a far more engaging critique of car-first design by James Kunstler: http://youtu.be/Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
It's interesting if he notices that the email conversation will be shared here and therefore puts extra effort into his answer.
Blood is running down the streets (just not literally). Traffic deaths are the top killer for kids under 15 in NYC; these aren't even people driving! They are killed by others, and often at speeds that are very, very likely to kill upon basically any collision.

If you value science and data, you can tell from a mile what an enormously stupid idea it is to have multi-ton cars roaming cities at even 20mph. Physics tells us it's deadly, everything tells us people are incompetent and unfit to drive, and the statistics bear out the very, very high expected costs.

I'd argue it can only be ignorance that would make you look at the tremendous body of evidence, both theorethically and statistically, and conclude

> People are not suicidal. They'll drive at whatever speed is safe and comfortable for them.
> And continuing on your point about best interests, this would amount to rolling up to random cars parked in a parking lot and having a drug sniffing dog walk around until they find something, then trying to arrest everyone parked around the car.

But that pretty much exactly that FBI and other agencies are doing right now in the Internet. And this ruling puts a legal precedent footing under such behavior.
Question: you're using the super-fine voxels for the aesthetic, (and it does look amazing), but only coarse grained voxels for gameplay? I can see the trade-off makes sense, for the reasons you mention (path-finding, monsters can get through).

It's just that a fine-grained modifiable world would be super-amazing. It seems to me that your rendering tech could do that just as well... if the edits only occurred on-screen, they are manageable (and all the rest can be rendered off-screen to bit-maps and cached, as you do now).

Of course, what I'd really love is a living world, which also changes off-screen. e.g. erosion. But I think that may be asking too much of present-day hardware...?

marketing advice: copy notch. Do little updates as often as you can, for every small thing you do. It gives you energy, engages long-term followers and - most important - is advertising, so more people know about it.
That was part of my point -- I personally don't have any real overlap with his life context (and I do have people who can discuss my flaws with me, with enough honesty that it's not always comfortable).

But there are people who could seek him out as someone a bit further along than they are, on a similar path, plus some market for people who'll try it for fun.
There was an article about people's tendency to soak up additional road space posted on HN fairly recently: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

(You can also see something similar with internet bandwidth. Same principle, I think.)

There's a Wikipedia article about the theory that narrower, signage-free roads are safer on aggregate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space

(I don't know/care if these are useful to you - simply a brain dump, as you asked)
Did you read the article?

It's talking about the effect of wide lanes on urban and suburban streets. You're talking about what happens on open highway. Completely different animals. He acknowledges as much, and that wider highway lanes are safer.
Sorry about that - this got popular faster than I thought it would! Did you use paypal or bitcoin? I think I'm having issues with Coinbase at the moment.

Could you send me an email directly at brutalhonestyio@gmail.com? I'll get to yours next :)
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