skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With both Russian and German I had a problem memorizing the vocabulary. German genders don't make sense - why is a table a strong, proud man, whereas a mangy, flea-infested feral tomcat a proper lady?

Gosh this resonates. I remember learning "das Mädchen" and feeling my brain throw up its little brain-hands in resignation and defeat. I assume you've read Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language"? Link: http://crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language The "Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate" is so funny.

Did you ever get a strategy for the German nouns besides the rules-of-thumb and raw grueling familiarization/memorization?
I can assure you that the iPhone as originally announced was never going to allow third-party native apps; it was to be web-apps only forever, and this was not intended to be a temporary position. Even though their language was often cagey, it is my clear recollection that Apple's general attitude around/beyond the release of iPhone OS 1.0 was that web-apps were essentially "as good as" any native app could be, and were therefore everything developers would ever need. As I recall it was some 13 months before they finally relented and began to talk native third-party API access.

I was at WWDC 2007, here's what Jobs said at the time -

"The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, they can send an email, they can look up a location on Google Maps. And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today."

Additionally -

Apple board member Art Levinson told Isaacson that he phoned Jobs “half a dozen times to lobby for the potential of the apps,” but, according to Isaacson, “Jobs at first quashed the discussion, partly because he felt his team did not have the bandwidth to figure out all the complexities that would be involved in policing third-party app developers.”

The following article discussed this http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-i...
Not applicable. I dunno if you ever looked at thermos bottles, but they use a layer of vacuum to insulate the liquid.

But I agree, there is no telling where your invention may be used. If method of bottle opening can be used to extract babies[1], who knows what this invention can be used for.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-di...
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It's very hard to find a way to retort that actually has the potential to change your mind. I will try, though, and I hope you take this with an open mind.

First of all, I completely disagree. You yourself admit the email was hastily written and that tells me you didn't take the time to actually consider the opposing point of view.

I'm not religious, myself. I know several muslims though, all believers to varying degrees. They all think very differently from one another and have completely different opinions about various parts of islam. One thing they do have in common is that they all condemn those attacks as heinous, disgusting and a disgrace for those people to consider themselves muslims.

You talk about an "evil philosophy" as if this is what islam intended. Plenty of murders and bombings, even genocides, have been committed in the name of a much more popular religion, yet I'm fairly certain you do not think of that religion as an "evil philosophy".

And if you do, please consider that everyone, no matter their philosophy, also have the freedoms you talk about. Those freedoms do in fact include the freedom of faith.

Your reasoning regarding your own thought experiment is flawed. In this world, neo-nazis do not have to fear consequences to such actions. At least not theoretically (which is what your thought experiment suggests), and because neo-nazism is kept off the mainstream media, unlike islam in some countries.

Neo-nazism is not a religion. It's easy to drop the N-bomb on islam comparisons but a lot harder to justify it once you get past the fairly childish prejudice that "they're both extremist mindsets, so they're the same". You've drawn some parallels that most muslims have nothing to do with. Will you find a lot of neo-nazis that follow nazism because they find peace and understanding of the universe in it?

I could argue a long time on how this logic is flawed but I'm fairly certain it won't go anywhere. I just hope that you, personally, appreciate that an extreme majority of muslims aren't merely passive about such behaviour, they're very actively against it and revolted by it. What do you think they can do about it, exactly? Stop believing in their own god? You're removing their freedom of faith if you ask that of them.

I was actually heartwarmed by the european response to the attacks, they have been my own personal light of the past 12 months. I've seen that my country of birth is not as bigoted as I thought, and that its media is in a much better state than I suspected. All of this because they did, in fact, all made a point to make the difference between those wastes of DNA that perpetrated the attacks, and the religion as a whole.

Please don't make the mistake France avoided.

PS: I upvoted you because I'm hoping for some decent discussion on the issue here. I hope others do the same.
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Mature, well-developed markets are close to zero-sum. Think Wall-Mart or McDonald's mature: niches where there are old, aggressive, amazingly well-optimized players, generally two or three in number, who occupy the landscape so completely that for one to grow the rest are probably going to have to shrink.

It isn't a perfect zero-sum, and even in those markets companies are always looking for new ground to colonize, but it's close enough that to first order it makes sense to analyze things in zero-sum terms.

And it's also the antithesis of start-ups in most cases, which are frequently attempting to create new markets where none existed by serving needs that no one knew they had.
Smoking and drinking do not necessarily endanger others. You can smoke by yourself, or drink without driving etc.

Vaccination is not the same, unless you intend to quarantine your kids forever.
That would only be true if community college were an equivalent alternative. Unfortunately it is not.

Unless you care about education for education's sake and nothing of jobs or career prospects, then a well motivated individual could learn a ton at a community college.
Yeah, my mom (who is a doctor) was just complaining about this, when she just started out she was a GP in pediatrics and said that 95% of cases were the common cold + over reacting parent, it made it much more difficult to find the interesting cases (read: actually sick kids who needed real treatment), she now works in ICUs and ERs and loves every minute.
Smoking and drinking aren't highly contagious and usually don't kill in days/weeks.
What about the immediately following paragraph from said author?

"I want to be absolutely clear that I believe vaccines have saved and continue to save countless lives. I would never suggest that any parent avoid vaccinating children of any race. Vaccines prevent serious diseases, and the risks associated with their administration are vastly outweighed by their individual and societal benefits."

I don't disagree that disclosing the full set of information is usually better, but it can be problematic to include every bit of data and attempt to justify everything, particularly in the rat race that is funding for research.
Community college is already a tiny fraction of the cost of a university, yet people flock to universities. You can save tens of thousands of dollars by getting your associate's at a CC, even if you go on to get a bachelor's at a 4-year school.
I know. I once took a computer architecture course from Bill McKeeman at UCSC, and we had an obsolete B5500 to play with. We got to step through instruction execution from the front panel, watching operands push and pop off the stack. The top two locations on the stack were hardware registers to speed things up.

An address on the Burroughs machines is a path - something like "Process 22 / function 15 / array 3 / offset 14. The actual memory address is no more visible to the program than an actual disk address is visible in a modern file system. Each of those elements is pageable, and arrays can be grown. The OS controls the memory mapping tree.

One of the things that killed those machines was the rise of C and UNIX. C and UNIX assume a flat address space. The Burroughs machines don't support C-style pointers.
That's not a very relevant study, since you (and Ames) are just guessing at the motive.

Many people are consciously racist, not in a "I want them all lynched" way, but in a "meh, I'd rather not meet with a black guy, probably a waste of time" way.

Of course they aren't going to admit that sort of bias. And again, you're just guessing at what happened.

There is indeed subconscious bias, and it rears its ugly head when we're observing people's mannerisms, their speech, their attractiveness, and yes, their skin color. But just looking at names on a resume, I'd argue the decision of calling someone back, based on the stereotypical application of their first name, is just a conscious bias.
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In my experience, in the US, it is normal to reimburse physics graduate students. I won't say how many of us there were to a room at times, but we were reimbursed....
... as was I! Just because you consider an AP to be rogue doesn't mean it's legal for you do something about it.
I'm surprised that the Olivetti P6060 was not mentioned in the list.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860426
> Once you are in the store they get you to buy things that you didn't think that you needed.

Yup, I typically got to Costco with one maybe two things in mind, and rarely leave with less than $250 in my cart, and I'm usually one of the lightest carts I see checking out. And it's not things you need, it's things you want. I love Costco.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860426
It's almost the same a saying that it's better to have no information than to have incorrect information.
Lentils don't agree with a lot of people due to taste, texture and/or flatulence.

However, the people who don't eat lentils probably wouldn't touch ground insect meat either.
Ask HN: Tips on starting developing project?
I noticed it many times now - every time I am ready to jump working on next idea (very MVP-ish) I am looking through available libraries to get head start. Like get right folder structure, get right templating library (both server and client sides,) right combination of client libraries, something that already have basic CRUD and API layers working, etc... And every time I waste many hours browsing through GitHub, because each project is slightly not what I want to have.

Any tips on writing very first lines of code? :) Both mental and may be technological (look - I still looking for silver bullet here :))

ps: It is never problem for me to dive deeply into existing project and start feature in existing project from scratch, but totally new project - every time mental struggle.
What makes a developer?
Didn't we just go through the BPON -> GPON upgrade? If you're just talking about the fiber, you're not even talking about the last mile. It's the last 100 feet. What about all the equipment cabinets in every neighborhood?
"The broad based demand for a college education is based on the irrational thinking that so many should have a college education in order to work, which is pretty much untrue."

Sources? The "you don't need college" meme is quite popular with VC of late, and I think is often true in the technology field. But is this true in other white collar job sectors? I'm honestly asking.
It's impossible to just read about Smalltalk and poke around a bit, and think one knows. The language itself is a tiny part of things, and one needs to really get immersed in the environment to really appreciate things.

Maybe you know better, the author could have put things better. But I am sure a lot of people don't know, I know I was one of them. Even after a long time Smalltalker gave an enthusiastic (to put it mildly) 2 hour demo. Now I've become the rabidly enthusiastic one, but most people think I am passionate about historical programming languages.

What other environment can you trivially do this:
- can't find a method, but know what you want: provide sample inputs and an output, and (at least Pharo and Squeak Smalltalk) will find you all methods that produce the output.
- trouble visualizing relationships while debugging? Script some code in a few minutes that become part of your debugger to see what is going on.
- really code live - there is "hot swapping", but it's something bolted onto a rigid foundation, and eventually fails. In Smalltalk, it's a foundational element.

Though the author could have put things differently, it can be difficult when so much that is mainstream feels so primitive, with layer upon layer of cruft bolted on. Programming in Smalltalk is uninterrupted bliss, then I go to work and use tools that have roots that predate Smalltalk, but Smalltalk is talked about as the "old" curiosity.

Excuse the rant - Smalltalk makes me feel like I am using a polished and refined set of tools, and then day to day I run around with crude stone tools, the "modern" way. I think the author feels the same way.
Water is cheap.
Yeah, it's called masturbation, and it's here now.

It is a bit of a time waster, but I'm not sorry!
It's easier for things that are written in broken ways that work best with Apache because that's the only platform they targeted.
I agree that the phrasing was debatable. Replacing the words: "affect muslims" with "affect everyone" would have been more precise and less biased.

But the comparison you just made, equaling todays regular law abiding muslings with passive nazi onlookers in the third-reich, is delusional from a historical standpoint, and despicable from a diplomatic one.

The state fuelled propaganda targeting the jew population after the German economic struggles was a majority culture fuelled by state propaganda that created a scapegoat with racial overtones.

Most muslim "anti-semitism" in the west today stems from a frustration with israels war policy. Not an inherent racial doctrine.

Comparing Jihad to State sponsored activities like SS or Hitler Jugend makes no sense.

Jihad in western countries is created mostly with foreign training, money and initiative springing from international social media.

Being active in the the Nazi army was for most people forced conscription, completely outside of personal volition, e.g. Hitler Jugend, SS etc.

Nazism and Radical Islam are of course both extremely right-wing, conservative and fascistic in their nature. They share a lot of common traits, but their roots and causes doesn't compare.

Lets be careful before we compare all of our fellow muslim citizens with Nazi sympathizers shall we?
As a job seeker having recently completed a web dev bootcamp (with no prior experience), how might I go about getting my first tech job? Or, taking a step back, my first interview? I find it frustrating that entry-level positions seek people with years of experience.
And a reminder to adults, you should be following the CDC recommended vaccine schedule for yourself too:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/adult.htm...

At least in the US, these are available in most states at the pharmacy and are usually covered by insurance. Pertussis in particular is a leading vaccine preventable cause of death worldwide. So at least be up to date on your Tdap.
I'm a Wintel systems & infra person rather than a programmer, so maybe it's different. But yeah, generally, I can tell from the way the thing is written, from the depth of previous experience, from the types of companies the person has worked at, from the career progression.

It also helps that I live in Melbourne, Australia - the IT world here isn't massive, and if you haven't worked with the person the odds are you know someone who has. :-)
That. letter. is. glorious.
I'm disappointed, was hoping for more -- this is "cracked" for heads up limit only, and even then I have my doubts. But would like to know more or play against it or see some code or something...
It's far from proven that armed individuals can provide their own safety, whatever that means (or if that's even possible).

But, a day has passed, so it is surely time for every special interest to start using this tragedy as a shoehorn for their cause.
I agree the question can be asked in ways that are less productive than they might be, but the general approach of, "How is this different from what's already out there?" is always a good one. It lets you know a) if they know what's already out there and b) if they've done a reasonable analysis of it's weaknesses/issues and c) if they have a realistic sense of what specific pain-points their approach will address.

I've avoided a lot of bad investments based on entrepreneurs who answer variants of this question with something like, "Well, they suck and we don't." This answer violates the Law of Common Humanity ("We are pretty much like Them"), which rarely bodes well for the product or the company.
One thing to keep in mind is that "entry-level" means the most junior position with that company, not "entry-level" into the workforce at large. I found this equally frustrating in non-technical jobs after I graduated college (with a liberal arts degree). It's a rather encumbered naming convention.
You see, shortly after leaving his boss's office and learning about the hidden-allocated 2MB, that guy implemented his own CRC that would throw the same hash just before release.
Reading the paper [1], you will find the following comment -

"It is unfortunate, especially in the light of recent schoolyard tragedies, that first-person shooters are so popular. Even though studies on the effects of violent media on youth are not conclusive [..], interface designers must proceed with caution when adding potentially aggressive aspects to interfaces. One must take into consideration the age of the expected user base and the possible use of non-aggressive alternatives."

It's interesting to see personal antidotes which have been shown to be incorrect to be permitted in papers.

Today if the paper was written the text could have been replaced with -

"..researchers found that the playing of such games actually had a very slight calming effect on youths with attention deficit symptoms and helped to reduce their aggressive and bullying behavior." [2]

(replace 'youths' with 'sysadmins')

[1] http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

[2] http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select...
Growing up we had a family friend who taught at both the local high school and community college. He always said that at the CC he saw both extremes. On one hand yes the vast majority of students there didn't give a shit and it was just high school 2.0 to delay the real world.

But he also had the students who cared the most. The single working mothers. The students who desperately wanted a good education but couldn't afford it so they were taking the responsible Community College -> State University path.
Router can power your devices wirelessly from 15 feet away
Interesting - makes me wonder whether the same thing could happen today. That is, are there circumstances where the US military might side with the president over the constitution?
I guess chalk it up to semantics? I could happily argue that online NLHE and live NLHE are also two different games. Like comparing tennis to squash - similar, but not the same. Of course, this would be better argued on 2+2.
I'm 15 minutes in and frankly I'm finding the video hard to follow. Is there an article that accompanies this that might help summarize his points?
Firstly, thanks for your considered reply.

"It's very hard to find a way to retort that actually has the potential to change your mind. I will try, though, and I hope you take this with an open mind."

You'd be surprised, I think. I've changed my mind several times on this issue, and I'm still mulling it over. That email represented my current thinking on the matter, quite directly given the speed with which it was written.

This is _another_ rushed reply, & I'd like to reply later in more detail if time permits.

Some background: I'm an atheist, and I don't (or at least I try not to) distinguish between religious and non-religious philosophies. I happen to think that the greatest religious evil in the world today is perpetrated by Christians against Africa, by way of a prohibition on contraception.

Re. freedom of faith, take one example. If your philosophy mandates the execution of apostates, then your philosophy is evil. If you choose to belong to it, to support it, then you yourself are supporting evil even if only by lending it your moral sanction.

This is true regardless of whether your philosophy is religious, or not.

If your God tells you to murder apostates, then yes, in order to be a decent human being, you need to reject your God - [edited to add]: or, at the very least, find an interpretation of your religion that rejects that mandate. Another example: if you're Catholic, acknowledge the torment and suffering that your religion is inflicting upon the poor in Africa, and change denomination to one that allows contraception.

It seems as though you are giving Islam special treatment by virtue of it being a religion.
those are some great runs. 3-cushion is so challenging but taught me much about banks and ball control. highly recommended, would shop again!
Bullshit. http://www.sott.net/article/290717-Chickenpox-vaccine-when-m...
Very cliche suggestion, but just start.

Keep adding to it. You're gonna for sure write bad code thats going to be trashed, but keep working at it. The whole project might even be trashed but such is the expense of a creative.

Code, ship, fail(or succeed!), repeat.
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> Signature Edition

Thanks! That's good to know! After 3 or 4 tries, looks like Cunningham's Law pays off again (sorry).

> If you need a UNIX like system...

Yep, that's a big plus for me. A UNIX-like system with a decent terminal emulator and an IDE like Xcode makes my workflow so much easier. Probably enough to keep me in the mac ecosystem regardless.
"...but it has not hurt the economy partially due to federal requirements that the loan not be discharged."

I'm curious to know what you mean by the requirement that it not be able to be discharged being beneficial. So far there seem to be three types of student loan borrowers:

1) Those who can and are paying their loans;
2) Those who got way over their heads--either through poor borrowing practices or income shortage--and who are struggling yet still paying their loans instead of creating other economic activity;
3) Those who can't pay--again, through poor borrowing practices, income shortage, or some type of major life event--and are now screwed.

The idea behind bankruptcy is to let even the most buried of us be able to at least partially fill in the hole. That certain classes of loans create a permanent millstone seems, to me, a bit skewed.
Too bad I got tired of sharing and explaining mine in this forum. None of those countries you mention are actually prosperous to a larger degree. Is really shouldn't be that hard making an effort to think outside of you own though pattern should it?
The internet's first hater: “Mirsky's Worst of the Web,” 20 years later
Former Georgia Tech Engineering Professor Indicted on Racketeering Charges
Some interesting discussion from about a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750187
This is one of my favorite topic, it's very biological, I tend to call system features "genes" now.