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Climate change denial is a mainstream conservative belief.

And no, we don't need diversity in all its forms. We can do without the moronic, hateful and extremist.
Unfortunately it did not receive much coverage.

Groklaw[1] did post the ruling as linked in The Register article and cited on the Wikipedia page[2].

[1]: http://groklaw.net/pdf4/IBM-1132.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v._IBM#cite_note-ibm1132-4
Even to the extent of affirmative action for the intentionally anti-diverse, apparently.
The shell is what you see, but there's a full OS underneath it, including a window manager and whatnot. You can reprogram any part of the OS dynamically from this shell, which is the main point Terry is trying to make - it's an OS aimed at hackers who he thinks should have 100% control over the system down to the hardware - and he has a novel way of enabling that to happen with an interpreter and JIT compiler for his dialect of C, and a single memory space for all "processes".
"There is a difference between being able to be good at something, and that thing being what you like to do."

That depends on the degree to which you like or dislike that thing. If you don't like something to the point that you can't stand to pursue the practice that would make you good, then you are not able to become good at it. If you aren't able to practice, then you aren't able to be good. Not everyone will, agreed, but nor can those who can't stand the necessary practice.
USPTO's PAIR website indicates that he filed the patent application himself. (It was rejected on non-patentability.)
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Why not AngularJS?
love this article... thanks for sharing
USPTO's PAIR website indicates that the application was rejected for non-patentability. I'd link it but PAIR doesn't do permanent links. Go to the main page at [1] and type in the application or publication number.

[1] http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
The 80 million homes that are owned in the US, are selling for pennies on the dollar and are underwater? Quite the opposite, only 8% of home owners are underwater, and that's a drastic improvement vs the peak of the real estate collapse. Total home value in the US is near all time record highs, and home equity has skyrocketed the last three years.

Home equity has climbed by $4+ trillion in just the last 2.5 years, an increase of 64%; from $6.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2012, to roughly $11 trillion today.

Home owners have benefited massively from the Fed bailout, via low mortgage rates and cheap refinancing. Home owners have gained probably $8 trillion since the bottom, across essentially every market in the US.
If this is about getting a job, forget about stacks and just start hacking on the first thing that seems interesting. If you're comfortable, you're doing it wrong.

Whatever you're working with will most likely be out of touch with what the job requires and outdated in a year, but the ability to pick up new things is an indefinitely transferable skill.

In addition to not bothering with stacks, I would also advise you not to limit yourself to JS.
The patent application linked numerous times in this thread is listed as abandoned after being rejected for non-patentability. Type the application or publication number into [1] for details.

[1] http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
But is there any way to use those to inspect traffic originating from outside of Firefox? With mitmproxy (or other tools, such as Charles/Fiddler/etc) you can run pretty much anything through them.
Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences
The article doesn't even mention the Knowledge Graph. It's using just referring to the fact that Google is still the first place you go to ask those questions. Usually, the answer resides somewhere in the first page of results.

I asked Google "will a poisonous snake die if it bites itself?" Results include Quora, Yahoo Answers, a Youtube video of a snake actually doing it, and HowStuffWorks. So no "Google" doesn't know, but I'm going to ask Google when I want to answer a question.
no, don't do this. you have limited time focus what you learn just like everything else
"Good programming ... everyone can do it" - you seem to be arguing whether something can be gained - I don't think anyone is arguing that.

If good programming requires practice, and some people cannot stand the practice, then they cannot be good programmers.

"Good programming ... everyone who likes programming or can stand to do the significant practice can do it."

"Crap programming ... everyone can do it."
NO!

Summarizing as “when you have physical access, the game is up” is the same as saying that employees who pick up abandoned USB thumbdrives on parking lots and plug them into work computers are guilty.

Plugging things in are what Thunderbolt/USB ports are FOR. This is how you transmit data and how you extend the computer with new peripherals. It may be impossible to prevent a Thunderbolt or USB peripheral from bricking the computer, but that doing so can end up giving control of it to a third party is an unacceptable security failure, is not the user's fault, and needs to be fixed.

A physical hardware switch located inside the box would be quite appropriate. Everyone knows that you don't need to open the computer to read from an external drive.
I guess the point of the article is that now you find answers to these questions _using_ Google, and not necessarily get answers from Google itself. Also, while Google Knowledge Graph cannot answer complex questions given as examples in the article, until quite recently it couldn't even answer simple questions it is able to answer now. I wonder how long will it take until it is able to answer the questions from the article.
My company made employees sign agreements that if they did leave, they were not allowed to actively recruit people from the company. One guy did it and they sent him a cease and desist. Your manager should be careful incase he signed something similar and doesn't remember.
> I have several ideas - OP

Doesn't sound like the OP has a particular dream or vision.

Sounds like they are starting to see the reality of a successful startup; it's a lot of hard work.
Time is a limited resource. As much as I'd love to learn everything that I find interesting, I can't find the time to learn all these subjects. The criteria I use to decide when to learn something or not are not like geoka9's, but I still have to ask myself why.
As someone who's writings have been on the front page a few times, I've wondered how I can protest the heavy handed title mods. The best idea so far is to wait for one of my pages to "make it" here and then stealthily change my title to something extremely clickbaity.

Anyone have suggestions for titles? "Read this One Weird Article; HN Mods Hate It!" is my personal favorite.
> Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and early forms of life were definitely on the planet by 3.7 billion years ago. That bare fact seems to imply that it wasn’t hard to get life going on Earth; if initiating life was really improbable, then we should have had to wait a long time before its appearance.

I think that's a big leap to make in drawing conclusions exactly because of the N=1 problem. If we had managed to reproduce a process by which a bunch of organic compounds turn into a the simplest cell type then we could start talking about probabilities of this process happening elsewhere in the universe. It might very well be true that life would start just as easily elsewhere but that conclusion can't be based on the amount of time it took life to appear on earth. The fact that someone wins the lottery the first time they buy a ticket does not mean its easy to win the lottery...
Why? I have seen multiple people being ready to leave, getting raise and then staying few more years.
What Economists Don’t Get About Uber’s Surge Pricing
Gas-powered cars have been getting cleaner on a steady basis: more efficient engines, lighter materials, etc. improve gas mileage and thus lower emissions.

It's probably a lot easier to incrementally improve gas-powered automotive technology than it is to replace the large percentage of electric capacity in the U.S. that comes from coal-fired power plants. According to Wikipedia, this was about 50% of the nation's capacity as of 2008: 2133 TWh from coal out of a total of 4369 TWh.[1] That amount of industrial infrastructure is not likely to be completely replaced any time soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#List_of...
Most Americans support either Republicans or Democrats. There are no significant political parties to the left, and those Democrats with somewhat left of center views are considered to be on the far left of the party.

You don't really need statistics or bias to conclude that most Americans conservative. What part of that upsets you so much?
Related MSc thesis: "Anonymous Internet: Anonymizing peer-to-peer traffic using applied cryptography" - http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3Ace3bd867-6540-42...
>Science and Conservatism are partially exclusive. Science includes questioning knowledge,

What we call "liberalism" is not substantially more willing to question its beliefs than what we call "conservatism".

People who fall under the American political label "liberal" are almost as ideologically entrenched as those who fall under the label "conservative"; they just happen to stick to a slightly more modern set of arbitrary beliefs.

The people who really question the current political environment are almost always labeled as ideological extremists, which American liberals certainly are not.

Now, as for science, it seems to me that liberals are just as liable to believe in the stereotypical anti-GMO anti-gluten pseudoscientific rhetoric as conservatives are to believe in the stereotypical anti-evolution anti-climate-change pseudoscientific rhetoric.
There's a good use case for a system like this, allowing scripting to be used on platforms without Reflection.Emit (like iOS). But I'm not seeing anything differentiating about this particular project. Is there a reason to use this over Jint[1] or Script#[2]?

(I personally use my own gizmo called Exor[3], which does runtime compiling on desktop platforms and allows me to embed script assets at compile-time for platforms without Reflection.Emit. YM, of course, MV.)

[1] - https://github.com/sebastienros/jint

[2] - https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp

[3] - https://github.com/eropple/Exor
Something market something something irrational longer something solvent.
yes

here in Canada our "right wing" government would be on most issues to the left of US democrats --- certainly Obama

in any case these left-right classifications are unhelpful at best
The 65% home ownership rate includes a lot of people who recently bought a house that was much more expensive because of housing policy deliberately designed to increase the price of homes. It seems a stretch to claim they benefited from it.
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The first part of your response sounds agreeable - I suppose it's not the "more money" aspect as much as the "threat" aspect which shows that for one reason or another the relations between the company and the individual have gone beyond amicable negotiations into ultimatum territory and the employee is not very savvy - 9.9 times out of 10 the company has far much leverage in these sorts of negotiations.

But the rationale sounds a bit weird to me:

"they're not invested anymore."

How could an employee be invested in a company if they've not actually invested? This sounds like an employee should have some sort of weird feudal allegiance for the corporation they work for.
This seems to imply giving purely multiple choice computer graded (and possibly even computer generated) tests. Otherwise each school would have to have a small army of teacher doing nothing be creating and marking hundreds of tests every week. I'm very much of the opinion these types of tests can only test a very small subset of knowledge and don't give very useful feedback. Going back to my original example, how would you usefully phrase something like "What where some of the root causes of the start of World War I" as a series of multiple choice questions? Given that the important part of the question is not to get the answer 'right', but to pick a handful possible causes and successfully argue for them.

Even in something like math which is probably the subject best suited for multiple choice, it is still a poor option since seeing the steps the student choses to try to answer the question are often more important and more illuminating than whether or not they get the answer right.
That test makes me wonder if we've somehow turned off a generation of potential computer scientists by the unfortunate choice to go with C/Fortran style assignment instead of Pascal/Ada style.
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CodeDOM doesn't work everywhere. In particular, you're gonna have a rough time porting to iOS (so it's not a viable solution for cross-platform game scripting, say).

For a long time I was one of very few people who ran into the problems this solves, so I'm sympathetic. As I posted in my other comment, though, I think Jint does a better job of solving this problem in the way Mond does.
The cited article has a. nothing to do with CoreOS, and b. contains very incorrect information about btrfs, not just a matter of also being outdated. e.g. "btrfs does not allow you to organize subvolumes" has never been true. The article must be old because send/receive, deduplication, and preliminary raid56 support have been there for a while.
> threedaymonk behaved as a nice, well-intentioned, polite person ought to.

I work with threedaymonk and the reason that he came across this way is that he is a remarkably nice, well-intentioned, polite person.
Ember is the Rails of JavaScript. People who like Rails tend to also like Ember -- same approach to problems, and they integrate well together.

Personally I am into React/Flux lately but that's because I like doing things at a bit lower level, with more control. Note, lower level doesn't mean better.
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In less time than it took to write this comment you could have clicked the link and found your answer. But that would have denied you the chance to create and kill a nice straw man.

It turns out, what the subjects were supposedly "denying" were not even statements of fact. They were slogans that convey attitude. As such, what the study tested for is properly called political correctness.
The values displayed are retrieved each time the window is redrawn, which might be each time he moves the cursor or at a set frame-rate. It obviously doesn't detect changes in memory then print those changes on screen immediately.
"...in a new book that is changing how scholars view one of the chief architects of the Holocaust."

I think I might vomit. This man doesn't deserve any publicity or acknowledgement beyond the synonym of monster. His history and details should be forgotten, and his name left to rot with a single title of pure evil. Whether or not people find his history interesting, it is disrespectful to the people who suffered (and continue to suffer) from this mans direct actions of horror.
I thought this was an expert system initially, and was intrigued as expert systems haven't been hot since the 70s or 80s.

This is not an expert system however, but requires a human to drive it. Even so, it might do some good. I will take it for a spin and form a more researched opinion.
it isn't inconvenient to the narrative, though it might not be immediately obvious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_blood

calling out racism isn't bullying and it's incoherent to label it as such, davis has a long history of racist ranting much more offensive than labeling africa black. he's mentally ill and it's sad but it's not to be overlooked
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I'd say the truth is quite a bit further than that. They only appear adversarial, I think, in an effort to make the general public think that they're keeping each other on their respective toes.
Agree with learning plain JavaScript.

Then I would suggest building a project with jQuery. It has been around for years. Any seasoned JavaScript programmer will have encountered a project that was based on jQuery. It will also help you understand the motivations behind the creation of the more recent frameworks: React, Angular, etc.
That "modern desktop" is why many stopped using Windows in the first place.
> I would rather work with a genius for 12 months than a cog for 3 years.

That's a false dichotomy. There's plenty of "geniuses" that will stick around for many years and plenty of "cogs" that will be gone in one.
A mentor / good friend of mine worked hard on this project and I thought some in this audience might find it useful. They use bifocal glasses, as might a lot of us soon. I'm likely headed there at some point...

It positions a monitor at desk or workspace level, essentially aligning most flat screens to the ergonomics of a laptop display sitting on same. No mounts or anything are required. The weight of the monitor centers on the stand and it all just works.

Risks on this one are low. I helped with the manufacturing plan, and the protos have been in use for a while and they work, and I'm rewarding that with a little promotion as this person did a lot for my own success. Thanks.
No part upsets me. Why read emotional content into this?
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Yeah but isn't that study already telling? They're saying that if you are already familiar with the idea that a computer system has to be perfectly consistent, then programming makes sense to you. (Also, I think they had issues replicating this.)

Anyway, it doesn't say that this is an innate quality. So perhaps they are measuring the gaps in how we educate people.

If you want another graph, look at this one:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-...

And here's yet another one which shows percentage of degrees conferred to women. Note how weird the graph is for CS, and it doesn't track fields which you might think would indicate innate talent, like math and statistics, or physics.

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...

What is the explanation here? Coding was way harder and more mathematical before the advent of high level languages and yet the participation of women crashes right around 1982. I suspect that this is just the most obvious effect; we've probably been turning off men who would have been perfectly competent as well.

Ask yourself what the more reasonable hypothesis is:

- Computer programming is unique among all technical skills, in that talent predominates over education, to a higher degree than medicine, or even mathematics.

- Something is wrong in how we teach computer programming, and it might be related to the introduction of the personal computer.
A common theme of this thread seems to be "But liberals believe in science and conservatives don't!".

This is, of course, picking out the stereotypical far-right bible-thumpin' boot-wearin' evolution-denyin' strawman, much as American conservatives like to pick out the weed-smoking dreadlocked hippie strawman. Most political conservatives (by American political terminology) are not, in fact, anti-science in any meaningful capacity.

I would also like to point out that, while HN is a very liberal crowd, it is not representative of the general liberal (again, American political terminology) population. For every conservative who doesn't believe in global warming, there's a liberal who believes that GMOs and gluten cause cancer. No political group has the claim to a monopoly on science.

Finally, if you don't think the social sciences aren't substantially liberally biased (in the political sense, not the fictional science-appreciating sense), you haven't spent enough time (or maybe I've spent too much time) on college campuses in the last few years.
And i wasn't talking about liberalism, because it just kinda translates to 'movement for freedom', which could be a lot. I doubt its even mutually exclusive with conservatism.
It's a shame nothing ever came of TermKit.

http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
So far in the comments, the Republicans have been called far-right, anti-science, anti-academia, anti-intellectual, and some other things. No wonder they rarely self-identify. Individual members of the Republican party are probably any one of those or more. But nice to see such a nuanced discussion.

Let's put to rest the idea they're far right. Far right generally have strong elements of authoritarianism, anti-democracy, and anti-integration. Republicans are probably the loudest integration proponents and seem to demand an unreasonably fast integration of (Spanish-speaking) immigrants. Their voter registration efforts are not anti-democratic, many other countries have strict voter registration requirements and are still considered fully functioning democracies (for example, the UK which has fines for not registering and requires a fixed address unless you want to fill out a declaration-of-connection form). Republicans have been firmly against authoritarianism (at least while they don't hold the executive office). The tell tale signs of far-right are not present in the Republican party.

They've been proponents of DARPA, the national labs, and NASA. Even if some members spew anti-science agenda, they're actions speak differently. Right now they're crying loudly about a plan to rate universities on a set of federally defined criteria, which would in practice limit the freedom of university's to teach as they please. That is, in essence, a defense of academic freedom. (They might actually be anti-intellectual, but that's not uncommon for any populist party).

They're populist reactionaries at times, but in the end they're not the Tea Party even if some Tea Party members are Republicans.
What I meant is it would be impractical to pick one special topic of CS to study just because it happens to be a mode of the day.

It's like deciding to study number theory ("because, you know, cryptography!") in isolation instead of following a sensible math curriculum ("I'm not particularly interested in math") and learning the discipline as it was meant to be learned.

In short, I can't think of a "type system specialist" who is not a computer scientist. It sounds sort of like a "loop specialist" who can't program, or a "forehand specialist" who can't play tennis.
>I disagree 100% with the people who say that only large scale operations have the potential to feed the world. It just isn't true, as any of us who produce tons of food on small plots of land can show you.

I agree, large scale operation are not the only way (though they can be one way - if done right, i.e. taking care of things like sustainability, environment, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
I wasn't really satisfied with the existing scripting libraries available for C#, many just bind to a native implementation or have terrible interfaces. I wanted something easy to use that would work (almost) everywhere without any hassle, even if it means performance suffers.
>assume the best of a fellow engineer

Quit calling yourselves that: you're all web developers, not engineers. At the end of the day, 95% of what people on HN do revolves around making pretty websites for the internet.

You have not taken the FE exam, you did not study engineering, you are not certified as an engineer. This is just the latest way that CS graduates are trying to self aggrandize and de-trivialize their profession.
If anyone wants to skip straight to the good parts, this section of the paper starts on page 9.