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"However, now that I have kids and read the various upper middle class liberal-ish publications, I've learned so much about what my kids need to be doing"

I can summarize your long list to being whipped up into an anxious frenzy in a fit of Pavlovian conditioning, fall for every piece of clickbait that passes under your mouse cursor, earning a couple ad networks, and the authors, a couple pennies.

If you feel bad about not living up to an impossible ideal and feel thats the wrong way to treat people, the advertisers are thrilled because its easier to sell to freaked out people, meanwhile the feminists would like a word with you involving the strategies for mass market advertisements aimed at women.
Replace start up with Yahoo and I agree.
I didn't work when I drag n dropped an image (just says "Rendering" indefinitely) :(
I think most research on the topic is pretty vague, but from personal experience, after learning my 3 languages, adding more isn't much of a hassle (although, to be fair, I live in a bilingual city).

The 3rd language was Bulgarian, spoked by probably less than 10 million people worldwide, but it also helps to understand many similar Slavic languages.

I have become much more open and exposed to other cultures, feel more comfortable traveling alone off the track (I have hitchhiked in Syria before the war, amongst other places), and I can watch news or movies in a bunch of language (from those 3, I picked up basics of other languages, and from combinations, it can be enough to manage with a lot of situations).
you're thinking of Dropbox's zxcvbn [1] demo [2]

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

[2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.ht...
I have a problem with science been "done"

Science is never done, or at least it shouldn't be. We create models and update them or change them as we get more evidence and the technological advancements allow us to perform better tests.

Gravity was not done with Newton. sure, it's a great model to explain how objects are attracted to each other, but Einstein came alone and proved that that the model was not correct and it made incorrect assumptions (constant time for example).

I think that is the great misunderstanding. We expect science to give us final answers. We expect it to study something and then be "done". But that is not the case.
Science is a process of understanding the world. No process or tool has yet been found to work better. When he insults science, he really means "Scientific consensus." I agree that there are huge problems with this, as consensus has little to do with science, and everything to do with mass media and government agendas. Something as politically charged as food with competing agendas of agriculture subsidies, environmental impacts, and public health and welfare is bound to be so controversial as to resist a clear message.

So Scott and I are in agreement about this: what the media and our leaders have been, are, and will continue to tell of about nutrition is probably utter nonsense. And in their attempts to shove their agenda down the public's throats, they will wave around cherry-picked questionable "science" and accuse their detractors of ignorance. That's how effective PR works.

I would see this as a failure of the press and our elected officials. Mr. Adams sees it as a failure of science. But what is his alternative? I don't know, but I do know that when somebody first tries to convince you that reason and evidence are not to be trusted, what they want to convince you of is probably not in your best interest.
I wanted to use my Raspberry Pi to share an external NTFS formatted hard drive on the network. This required installing support for NTFS, making changes in fstab to mount it with read and write privileges, installing Samba, making changes in Samba's configuration file, making a new Samba user, restarting services, and probably more that I've since forgotten about. Every step needed to be researched through a mixture of blog posts, Wikis and other online resources.

I also wanted to run a Python 3 script I'd written on a different computer. Python 3 wouldn't install through apt-get, so I downloaded and installed it myself. Various dependencies wouldn't install using pip, instead giving error messages mixed in the regular output from the install process. I don't remember the actual errors now, I gave up and ran it on a Windows desktop instead.

Sometimes Linux gets in the way of what you want to do. Sure, keep at it and you've learned something, but sometimes you want to get stuff done and don't really care about how hard drive mounting works.

I'm still a big fan of Linux and open source, but I think Windows is a fine option for Raspberry Pi 2.
This is a clear case of the checks and balances.

The Congress would win if they could override a veto. They would also win if the president decided not to veto.

So in this case it's the President vs. a divided congress and not a non-elected bureaucracy overstepping their authority.
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Go to major sites like Wired, heck even any Medium blog. Where is the RSS feed???

Now go to their Twitter feed or Facebook feed. Oh there are their latest urls!

it's not a matter of perception. It's the truth. It's hard to find the latest content for a site/blog through RSS. But it's easy to find it in their twitter/FB
Parent post mentions "margerine".

We used to think that eating too much saturated fats caused heart disease. We switched people onto different types of fats. Tragically, we switched people onto trans-fats which we know now are terrible.

The current advice (avoid saturated fat) is questioned by some calm scientists.

It's frustrating that shifting scientific advice provides space for fucking wingnuts to spout nonsense.
We actually know shockingly little about a lot of topics relative to our bodies. One big reason for this is that, ethically, we can't just go experiment on live humans. But genetics and human biological systems may only play a part of how nutrition affects us.

As an example, science is just now coming around to is that the bacteria in our intestines has a huge impact on how our body reacts to food - and that those bacteria vary wildly from person to person. Some peoples' intestinal bacteria are better at breaking down different types of fat, sugar or protein than others. Some people are lactose intolerant. Slight variations in the intestinal bacteria levels might even lead to obesity or other metabolic disorders - we just don't know because nobody's found a good way to study it yet.

The net is that the human body is far more complex an organism than I think many people realize. DNA only tells part of the story. The entire way we design studies and test hypotheses is practically prehistoric - there's so much noise in the data that we can't pick out the signal because we don't even know what to look for. We're getting better data - which is helping - but we're still flying in the dark about this subject because there's no ethical way to disassemble a living human and perform the types of horrible experiments we can perform on machines or animals.
Phone calls aren't required to be metered and neither will be the Internet. But yes, metering is generally considered to be neutral, although not necessarily a good idea.

CALEA has existed for years and I haven't heard that Title II legalizes dragnet surveillance.
In that case, I'm shocked that no Lispers have showed up to castigate raganwald for writing something like

fn(first, foldWith(fn, terminalValue, rest));

With an accumulator foldWith could call itself directly! b^) Actually this indicates to me that ES6 should implement folds itself.
What about isolates in Dart?
I mean isolates are isolated processes, which also can be a thread and they also can communicate with each other.
It's not like the government created the Internet in the first place...
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I sincerely hope you, at least, are paid by the hour and by incident.

It's depressing to read stories like these. I to do not know how to neutralize the peer pressure that seems to make people want to be constantly abused by their malware-infested Windows machines just because their friends are...

One thing may help: interesting metaphors.

When my mom once asked about viruses, I made her picture her computer as an SR-71 cruising at Mach 3.6, high above anti-aircraft fire directed towards Windows machines. Sticky images like this may help, but they may need occasional reinforcement.

Every once and then she also forwards me a chain letter warning about the dangers of such-and-such e-mail scam that tricks people into download malware. I tell her to relax because the malware most likely will not be able run on her computer, much less compromise it.
Sure it is! The effect `(MonadTeletype m, MonadNow m) => m a` is just as real as IO. There's nothing special about IO except that the Haskell RTS knows how to interpret it.

I could, for instance, build a pure interpreter of those effects into, say, a stream transformer or compile it into a different language (though we'd have to do some tricks to expose Haskell's name binding).

If you want your lock obtained/lock released bit then you want indexed monads. It's easy enough to do, but the safety/complexity tradeoff in the Haskell community has landed on the other side of that... probably for more historical reasons than actual technical ones.
Wait, you can't chose between different power companies in the US? Even in socialist Europe that isn't normally a problem. I can choose between at least a dozen different providers of electricity, and at least half a dozen providers of Internet and landline telephone access. And that's just in the rural parts of the country. Granted most of the infrastructure is centralized, but that doesn't stop competition on extending it.

Maybe the problem isn't whether Internet access should be regulated as a utility service but simply that utility services in the US are crap?
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Shifting advice coupled with dogmatic and unflinching posturing of authority provides ample space for fucking wingnuts to spout nonsense.

It even works against religions -- this sort of thing led to the protestant reformation. "I am infallible, but the last Pope was wrong..." If you really look into the history of it, the protestants led by people like Calvin were often as bad as or worse than the Catholic Church and the understanding of theology was often quite crackpot. They gained power because the Mother Church discredited itself through hypocrisy, corruption, and self-contradiction.
Only the huge amount of cash available to dot-coms propped up Sun then. With all the "you need sun servers for dot-coms" beliefs.

I wonder if Sun would have been better off if this didn't happen.
Most people can't fire their internet provider.
The main problem is really that people are not educated on what science is, exactly. You hint at it by separating 'scientific consensus,' but I think it's a deeper problem.

Science is not truth, and it does not produce facts; Science is the process of getting it wrong over and over again and learning from it. Science is at its core a profound respect and love of doubt and uncertainty, and the ability to live and work inside that doubt with the aim of doing something productive with what we do not yet know.

If people understood this one fact about science, they would be able to frame these issues correctly, and see this "being wrong" as what it really is: the expected function of an amazing process of advancement.

This is why I advocate for universal, complete, liberal arts education. Scientific understanding and the humanity to know how to live with it. It's our only hope.
> That's an interesting claim to make on a forum that frequently discusses new web technology

I don't like to shy away from controversy. ;)

> In 1998 there was no Gmail, no Github, no Slack, no Discourse, and so on and so on.

No, but there was SMTP/IMAP/Exchange, which was better and didn't spy on you. There was ViewCVS, which was just peachy, and in any case the improvements in Github over CVS have to do with git versus CVS (i.e. the native apps and protocols), not the web frontend per se. There was also IRC and AIM, which were just peachy too.

It may well be that the 1998 peak was a local maximum, but I stand by the assertion that the web was better back then. The modern web is spectacularly bad for finding and consuming information. Want a simple how-to or product review? You'll be blasted in the face with images, video, and animation until your quad-core 2GHz/16GB RAM machine falls to its knees.

And to what end? Text is still, after thousands of years, the most efficient way to convey information. Anything you layer on top of it detracts, rather than adds.
Classifying the Internet as a utility doesn't change the various Three Letter Agencies' ability nor motiviations to surveil traffic.
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Part of the problem as I see it is this (and I only have a short amount of time right now but I have a lot of thoughts on this):

Our paradigm for "science" is typically physics, in particular say newtonian mechanics. Force, mass, acceleration. 100% predictable.

However, while human diet, nutrition, metabolism are ultimately based (in some way) in physics, chemistry, biology, microbiology, diet and nutrition in the individual case are incredibly complex and clearly not fully understood phenomena.

So I think it is not exactly a failure of "science" or even the "media" at work here, but a failure to understand (which neither science nor the media has been particularly helpful on) the scope and LIMITATIONS of our knowledge and theories.
Only 125 days since I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390136. I thought it was a cool idea... but I also thought BTC was a worthy investment at $400.
I didn't read the post as a criticism of the community but rather a criticism of the technical workings of the site. Which is correct, HN is lacking a lot of things that make even the most basic modern forums more user friendly. The site performs poorly on mobile, you can't collapse comment threads, the reply button disappears sometimes unless you click "link", etc.
Ah, I meant issue a new post, to reflect the fact that there are no cryptographic plans currently.

If you read the corresponding Reddit thread to that blog post (http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_redd...), there's a lot of skepticism on whether RedditNotes is actually legal (including in this very HN thread), and there is speculation that the laying off of the one person who could actually implement it indicates that the project is dead.
Cost and complexity of administration most likely.
Where are you from exactly? I live in Europe and 2 blackouts in 3 years would still be an outrage.

(To be fair, we have less natural disasters.)
Would you ever consider implementing on Voat?
I'm sorry, but you're holding the media to an impossible standard. This isn't about "checking the CIA World Fact Book," it's "Read dozens of dense studies that assume PhD-level study in the relevant fields."

The media does light fact-checking, and it's exactly that fact-checking that allows institutions to set an agenda. If a reporter sees a press release about a new study in, say, the field of cancer, and they try to fact-check it, they're likely to go and talk to the American Cancer Society. Which, as it turns out, has a point of view about cancer that it promotes.

What the hell else is the journalist going to do? They Just Can't read up all the relevant literature -- that's a full time job, and they already have jobs.

Interview some random scientist whose name they pulled out of a hat? That's not likely to help.
Freakonomics did an interesting podcast on this:

http://freakonomics.com/2014/03/06/is-learning-a-foreign-lan...

Their conclusion was that bilingualism doesn't increase your earnings potential commensurate with all of the study required to become bilingual. (They focused on economic and not cultural value.)

The exception was English. If you don't speak English, you will make much more if you learn English.

They also discussed how supply-side is important in the market for bilinguals. In the US, learning Spanish will not increase your income by much, but learning German might.
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Whether you're right or not, your point is shallow and tired. But I guess the "groundhog day" nature of HN resetting every discussion to zero every day encourages such comments.
I'd be interested to hear you explain how they are
We didn't need half those things, because we had email, usenet, and IRC. Those were actually pretty good. I certainly had far better discussions on usenet back then than i've ever had on the web since.
> One big reason for this is that, ethically, we can't just go experiment on live humans

The US has an enormous prison population. They get fed for $2.50 per day.

Is it possible to recruit prisoners ethically to take part in diet research?
If you're an ethical Vegan, e.g. someone who does not believe in exploiting animals for your food, then the diet being "bad" like that could be legitimately remedied by supplements.
Well, it doesn't really matter how old the pipes are as long as they continue working and provide water that meets the EPA/state standards for health. The US public water system is, for all intents and purposes, a miracle that most people do not even think about. They just rely on it.

It's also your duty to replace the pipes leading up to your own house off of the mains in most cases, so I guess take it up with your landlord.
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Minor point: Patrick is the son of the former Mayor,and hasn't been mayor himself.
I think the advantages and disadvantages are minor compared to other influences. Many poor immigrants for example speak 2 languages. Yet rich well travelled people also speak 2 languages.

This debate is only possible in the U.S. ... the majority of the world speaks at least 2 languages.
I was thinking HN-affiliated, but it applies to the Rust community as well I think. I have seen very positive things on their IRC. Also would like to say that I am loving everything Ted Unangst-related, the OpenBSD community has an (often undeserved imo) bad rap and he is a great ambassador for that community as well, in addition to his amazing technical prowess. With all the talk about toxic communities lately I just want people to recognize positive examples that exist that could be used as guides without being preachy about it. Again sorry for OT, disengaging.
(Note: I support the move. However I believe you may be overstating your case a bit.)

Accountable in what way? Based on either 1) Doing something so horrendous that would require direct Congressional intervention, which has never (?) happened before? 2) Waiting until a completely new Senate or president is elected, which is basically a 4-8 year cycle?

In theory all of these folks are accountable, sure, but in actuality the entire gimmick here is that the bureaucrats can make all the tough choices while Congress grandstands and makes speeches. That way the work gets done and there's nobody really to blame.

Some parts of that system are pretty good! Some parts are not. But it's only accountable in the strictest sense. There is only an infinitesimal chance that any citizen could have any influence at all over these types of machinations.
Funny to consider this alongside Guido's refusal to add full anonymous functions to Python. His argument seems to be "If it's too long for a single-line lambda, then it's long enough to deserve a name"
If you're not a believer in software patents (and assuming FB won't sue you for any unrelated patent infringement you'd want to retaliate for), attaching doomsday patent clauses to OSS software actually seems like a pretty good way to shut down software patent lawsuits.
>> their regulations have to fit within restrictions that are defined and may be revised by Congress

This is only notionally true, and history is replete with examples of federal agencies declaring their own authority over things which were obviously not envisioned so. While congress could act to change that, they don't, so power collects.
>market forces that encourage those improvements.

Like a Comcast monopoly? You mean those market forces?
> The scientific consensus was worse than "fat is bad for you", it was saturated fat is bad, so switch from butter to trans fat loaded margarine.

That recommendation was never "the scientific consensus" -- for most of the time after saturated fat was identified as a concern and before trans fats were identified as a specific concern, the scientific consensus was that the best change was to eliminate the saturated fats and not replace them, since most people that were getting too much saturated fats were also getting too many calories and too much of their intake in the form of fat of any kind.

Obviously, marketers of alternative fat products had a different viewpoint.

And, actually, the scientific consensus still seems to mostly be that saturated fat is bad from a cardiovascular disease perspective, what has mostly evolved is that trans fats and carbohydrates as replacements now appear to be equally bad, and the value of monounsaturated fats as replacements is unclear -- studies focusing on replacement show that replacing saturated fats with polyunsatured fats generally is beneficial. There's also some reason to think that more research is needed on particular kinds of saturated fats, and that there may be significant differences between them (milk fat may be beneficial, for instance.)
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To be fair, I like pluggable type systems a lot. I don't think that privileged type systems are the end-all-be-all.

I disagree a lot that the current effect systems don't prevent errors, however. You're right that linear types are difficult to encode in Haskell at least, but you can get away with a lot of bang for relatively little buck even without them.

The right choice (or choices) in design space here is a big challenge. It'll be exciting to see new research as it develops. I'm especially excited to see what comes of Pfenning's Pi calculus linear types [0].

[0] To be clear, I don't know if they're "his" excepting that he appears to be doing a lot of modern research there and that's where I learned about them.
The internet has become just another weapon in war, with offensive and defensive tactics constantly improving over time in reaction to each other. If you have cavalry and I have tanks you are going to be dissapointed.
I can dump my cable company if they piss me off. I can't do that with my utility companies