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To someone coming from a language like Rust, saying that your type system doesn't have generics is like saying your car doesn't have wheels. It's just considered non-negotiable.

Analogies are almost always useless diversions, but this one is particularly ridiculous.

People are building real, working, successful solutions in Go with rather surprisingly regularity (which, if the comparison needs to be made, they don't seem to be doing with Rust). It is obviously working pretty well, and that "non-negotiable" point turned out to not be a showstopper.

A car without wheels? If we have to abuse analogies, more like a car with a manual transmission. People can have hysterics about how will they ever eat their burger while they drive, but somehow some people manage.
My parents completely hid all finances from me and my sister growing up. My mother in particular would be horrified to think that their kids were stressing out over mortgage and utility bills. They didn't have to sit down and show us their pay-stubs for us to know roughly what types of things we could afford though. Perhaps if my parents had been really wealthy and could afford anything, then I would have grown up with no concept of money. But, as it were, I had a small allowance that I could spend as I pleased and I knew pretty well what price range we could afford for birthdays and such.

I would like to think I'm a moderately successful entrepreneur with a decent ability to manage personal and corporate finances. I'm thankful I didn't have that "adult" stress on my shoulders and was allowed to just be a kid.
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The right to be forgotten is well established in Europe. To introduce this right in HN could be made simply by changing the name of the poster to a random one. This is related to my other question in HN about how to delete my account.
In speed reading, you can read sentences backwards and the brain will reorder them in real time. You can learn to decouple image (symbol/word) acquisition from comprehension. Step one om this path is to stop subvocalization, saying words out loud in your head.

It's the same difference between Sync (O_DIRECT) and Async disk writes.
I'm curious, what's does your job entail? This question partially stems from the obsolete understanding of Microsoft's relationship to open source, but also wondering how it compares to other open source business models that provide support for open source packages.
I am really struggling to follow your reasoning. Why can't you explain exactly what you just said here to your kids? Explain to them why you are so frugal (I imagine you either want to be prepared for any down swing in finances, or to retire early? Whatever your reasons are, tell them!)

I think the key is to always explain your thinking process to your kids. That is the important part, and that will translate no matter what their future earnings are.
yeah I thought about physical sniffing and wanted to buy/build a bt sniffer myself ... but you know, some Android versions have a builtin bt sniffing feature ;)
that question is both very easy and incredibly difficult to answer. Yes, I visualize code the way you guys do, but not with pictures. Let us take a 2-dimentional array as an example. I tend to visualize this as a table. A table, for me, is a construct with columns and rows. Naturally, I do not have a spacial picture of this, the closest I can get is a tactile representation of either a chess board or a scrabble board. In both cases, a single array index becomes a tile, which makes me able to visualize it. But just like dreams, I would not use a visual frame of reference here because that simply isn't an option, it is a tactile representation that I somehow translate into a mental ...'picture' for lack of a better word. If you think that is tough, think of how incredibly tough it is for me to visualize CSS ;)
My guess is that it's roughly analogous to the difference between Wolfram and Google.

One is actually computing on the data to combine it in novel ways.

The other is the one I use.

(Snarky, but as much as I try, the only thing I've found WA useful is for COLA comps)
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Please come find me on IRC or twitter for this :) any list I could draw up will leave you with a lot of questions, and asking those would just get frustrating in a medium like this. If you rather use another form of communication, please let me know and I'll see what I can do
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tried the app and learned basic danish pronunciation with it - it seems to deliver, congrats!
> I can't think of a single argument as to why you would want to hide this valuable learning experience from your kids.

To avoid financial information being compared between families. This already happens via secondary signals, like clothes and possessions, adding direct financial comparison makes the poison stronger.

A better way is to make a toy budget based on allowances.
'Documentary'.
As I like to say: I had my startup stint when I was 20/21. Now that I'm older (27), it's time to start a real business. The kind that takes 5 years to build, delivers solid value to customers, makes two or three people independently wealthy, and feeds twenty families.

But no VC is ever going to fund that.
When one views reddit moderation decisions through an anti-corporate/governmental lens, circumstantial evidence of mods being paid off seems to be everywhere. But there is not a single piece of direct evidence to suggest that mods are being paid by large organizations (corporate or otherwise) to manipulate reddit content.
Fair enough, I guess I could have imagined arguments... I just don't feel they are very good ones. Your kids are your family, they are going to pick up on any shame and embarrassment you feel, and hiding the details isn't going to make them not see that in you. Explaining the actual situation might actually make them feel better, rather than their own guesses as to why their parents are ashamed and embarrassed.

Same with shielding your children from difficulties; they are going to sense things, and their imagination will be worse than the reality. Tell them your problems, but do so in a way that conveys your confidence that you can overcome them. You are teaching them about life, which is really just a series of difficulties that you overcome.
Even though the built-in screenreader mac OS X uses blows Narrator out of the water currently, it has a long way to go to compete with 3rd-party screenreaders on the Windows platform, especially when it comes to productivity and actually getting work done. The advantage of VoiceOver is that it is baked into the OS and therefore also the recovery media, making it far easier to reinstall the entire OS from scratch. Thiscan be done in Windows as well, but only recently were the tools created to actually allow this semi-reliably. On the mobile front, Apple does outperform the competition by a rather broad margin.
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It could simply be that people want to hire others who resemble themselves.
Imagine how much fun you could have with sending messages to runner's bands at Nike branded half and full marathons! :) Not that I would do that.
Totally agree. I can understand why the number of apps is what MS' marketing department focuses on (because most of the time when people compare stores, the number is the first thing discussed), but they need to take a stand and soon.

If Windows 10 has any significant uptake and given that its integrated search is the machine, the web AND the app store, I would think they would curate just to improve peoples search result quality, to try and avoid given the feature a negative image.
Please, elaborate on this. I tend to use Eclipse as my primary IDE and am wondering what the blind person had trouble with, what screenreader they were using and how long ago this happened.
it might work, but the nerves found in the fingertips are far more sensitive than anywhere else on the body. This might be trainable though, I don't know
Microsoft Office comes to Android tablets starting today
This might be helpful for anyone wanting to play with low level BT traffic: http://ubertooth.sourceforge.net/
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I guess someone confused 1989 and 1998. 486 was released in 1989, Grim came 9 years later.

It's old, but nowhere near THAT old. If games like this were possible on 386's, it would have blown some minds.

There's some other odd time related mistakes in the article as well. Tim Schafer left LucasArts in 2000, but in 2015 he's "a decade into his own studio".
Mainly if you are working with others, this approach would fall on its face rather quickly. People actually do this, doing all their work using emacs modes and Emacspeak. It can be done, but in this day and age it is not the most elegant solution especially with web 2.0-based websites
You still see the text, even if you don't understand it. Your eyes are collecting a constant stream of data, too.
It will :)
The day that right be implemented I will cut my red beard.
Coincidentally, Microsoft released the final versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint for Android tablets today: http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-office-apps-for-android-t...
Has there been any stats on the funding rates of applicants by age?
It could be that there are more young people applying for funding in general, causing this skew.
I got stickers and a certificate of moderate appreciation from reddit itself for moderating /r/answers. You should know I'm totally beholden to corporate interests now - those stickers were very nice.
The best I could find is http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf.
I watch twitch a lot and have noticed that streamers who average 2,000 viewers or more treat streaming as their primary full time job.

By virtue of their popularity many of them also get endorsements, donations and other perks to supplement their subscription/ad revenue from twitch.
you are correct. There is a huge difference between the two and as you say only coq is able to express proofs in themselves and not just a coarse grained summary of their structure.
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8958192 ... and consider FreeBSD :)
The news would go nuts. It'll be all anyone talks about on social media and internet forums. Every comedian will have an alien joke. Books, movies, and games will be written about them. Talking about the aliens will carry the same sophistication as talking about the weather. Conspiracy theorists and the paranoid-delusional will confirm their worst fears and blame the government. The government will roll out a Department of Extraterrestrial Security and enforce more airport screenings. A lot of people would buy telescopes. Benedict Cumberbatch will act as one. Potheads will make first contact according to themselves. The stock market will go up (but I can't tell you why -- that's insider trading). People will do cosplay of them. People will draw porn with them. Xkcd will do a What-if and a comic or three. Python will add 'import aliens'. Silicon Valley will spawn at least 4 new startups related to speculative data machine learning about their browsing habits once we show them our internet. Colbert will do a special about being abducted and he never really wanted to leave anyway. John Stewart will claim that Fox News were aliens all along and this is the second wave. Fox News will find a way to blame Obama and John Boehner will finally shed his ninth skin.

But that's just my take on it.
That's a lot to expect without looking into it at all.
My complaint - and I'm speaking as a consumer, who pays for devices and watches ads - is that Google doesn't provide apps for Windows platforms and blocks developers (Microsoft and 3rd party) who do.

For the YouTube case, neither the Android nor iOS app were built on HTML5. Why did the WP app need to be? And, fine, if it needs to run on HTML5, were there API's or metadata provided to allow showing the ads using HTML5 standards? Nope.

Same for Google Voice - they won't provide an app and won't allow other developers to provide one. I don't care about having an official Google app; I do care about them completely walling off access to one.

Starting around the Google+ days, I began to get a very clear sense that Google cared about their strategies a lot more than me as a user. As a long-time Google user - since Gmail beta, OG Droid user, etc. - this was a dramatic shift.

Compare this to pretty much everything Microsoft releases these days - published standards, open API's. They publish things for other platforms and encourage developers to access and extend theirs. That's a technology future I'd prefer to support.
Just specifically addressing this claim:

The promise made by insider trading laws is that any Joe Schmoe can trade on the same footing as sophisticated professional investors, and that promise is a farce.
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That's fascinating. But what was the modulation scheme? What was the printing mechanism? Achieving this, stand-alone without user intervention in a 100% analogue system sounds like a story worth a bit more technical detail..
I wholeheartedly agree. Our consumer-led marketing manipulated society casts a massive shadow over the reality of just how much things cost and no sum of money is too big. When you're a child or teenager, you don't have the pressures of life on your shoulders, you don't realise just how hard things can be. You have no bills, little to no responsibilities and everything is so much easier.

I actually had this conversation with my wife the other day. We decided we would raise our child to be aware of just how much things cost and teach him from a young age to be successful in life and get the things you want, you have to work for them and that nothing is ever handed to you.

This is why I think it is important to instil good values into your children from a young age and teach them the importance of money, how it is earned and where it is spent. When they're old enough to do things for themselves, encourage them to earn money through chores but also ensure they do some chores for free. Maybe give them a few dollars for mowing the lawn, but make them do the washing up and clean their room for free.

When I was about 10, my father who is a small engine mechanic gave me a full can of fuel, a whipper snipper and a mower. He then suggested I go door-to-door and ask people in the street if they would like their lawn mowed for $15 (for a small yard). When the fuel ran out, I had to use my own earned money to buy more fuel, oil (for two stroke mixture) and whipper snipper cord. I remember one stage I had like $40, but I spent half of that on fuel, oil and cord.

Because of that experience my father taught me, I believe it actually made me grow up to be more conscious of money and taught me the basics of running a business and managing money. I have very little personal debt, I earn an okay salary and have some savings. Sadly, we're seeing the current generation getting into massive amounts of debt thanks to credit cards, expensive electronic items and even in-app purchases on our cellular phones.

I learned to be more budget conscious when I go shopping with my wife because I grew up going to the store with my mother who knew to go at a certain time of day to get discounted; fruit, meat and vegetables. The importance of buying in bulk, the importance of knowing what you want to buy by writing a shopping list before you even set foot in the store.

When I was growing up, money was a taboo subject that my parents didn't like discussing in-front of me and my siblings. I would see my parents sometimes argue about money, not very often, but I didn't really know first-hand some of the stresses until I got older and paid more attention. I wish my parents involved me and my sisters in the budgeting process so we could all be a little more grateful for what we had and the sacrifices my parents had to make raising us.

Honestly, I think the whole money subject should be taught in school. I know some schools do to an extent, but children need to be taught the honest basics and realities of everyday life financial responsibilities as an adult and the consequences of things like debt.
The honors English "Great Books" series at the University of Michigan has about that much reading in each semester.
Yeah, I thought something was up with that, the 486 came out well prior...
> People are building real, working, successful solutions in Go with rather surprisingly regularity (which, if the comparison needs to be made, they don't seem to be doing with Rust)

I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of Rust code for Servo, the Rust compiler, and other projects. Of course it's a less mature language, but people are building plenty of solutions, including production solutions, in Rust.
I'm seriously thinking about buying/building one of those
Not alone indeed. I've got a 635.

Battery life is stupendous compared to the Nexus 4 (even when it was brand new), or any iPhone prior to the 6 (which I lack first hand experience), even before the battery saver triggers. That's considering a pretty heavy usage (lost in a foreign country and using the GPS a lot) under the sun, so brightness to the max.

Cheap, the touchscreen is ok, gorilla glass, cell reception is good. Crappy camera without a front camera or flash though.

The bundled 'Here' apps are great and saved my bacon several times over due to the easy and accurate offline maps.

Removable battery, sim, the back is plastic so it survived several falls.

Basically, if you want a phone to (gasp!) make phone calls, which also has good navigation capabilities (specially offline) and to use 'mainstream' stuff such as whatsappp or facebook, then you don't really need much else.

Or if you want a backup phone that WILL have battery left when your iPhone dies. You can even carry spares, which is something you don't see often nowadays. If I ever go on a camping trip, that's the phone I'm taking.
"Ikea platforms", as in this very makeshift stand! http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30279816/
There are two types of people.
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Not a link to an article with that title.
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That depends on the type of extraterrestrial life discovered.

There's a huge difference between us finding extraterrestrial life within our solar system (microbes on Mars, for example) and extraterrestrial life from outside the solar system finding us. The latter resolves the Fermi Paradox while the former heightens it.

Personally, I'd be really unsettled if scientists found evidence of microbial life on Mars. If life is so common that it can evolve independently twice in the same solar system, the 'Earth is a very rare and special thing' hypothesis is unlikely and there should have been many, many civilizations capable of interstellar travel - and the fact that we haven't encountered any would indicate something deeply weird is going on, most likely extinction events that keep societies like ours from ever reaching other stars.

Hell, it's already weird and disturbing that we're discovering so many exoplanets - including earth-sized exoplanets, including exoplanets in the liquid-water belt. Given the continued absence of alien life, that really shouldn't be happening.
I've seen this article several times now, and every time it has been equally impenetrable. I think one of the major flaws is that this sentence appears in the 10th paragraph:

"To evaluate the nothing-to-hide argument, we should begin by looking at how its adherents understand privacy"

Why do we only begin to evaluate the argument in the 10th paragraph?

This article has gravely serious implications, but it is needlessly long.

I'm not from the TL;DR crowd, but this is TL;NC (Not Cogent)
As with other commenters, I don't think this is too bad. A quick reader could easily get through the Shakespeare in an afternoon (and surely most people taking this course would probably have read or seen them before anyway...), and some of the rest are quite short.

The hardest book there, I would say, is "The Brothers Karamazov", which is a masterpiece with a little of everything in it, but it is rather dense in the way that Russian novels, and those by Dostoevsky in particular, tend to be. "Moby Dick" is also quite a weighty tome, but it's not a particularly difficult one to get through. I have no idea about the opera libretti or what miseries having to read them might entail.

What a wonderful selection, though, regardless (and lovely to see one of T.S. Eliot's Greek tragedies in there).
This is definitely one of my all time favourite games.
The atmosphere and story are top notch. Good to see it being revitalized.
TV Raman was in a numerical optimization class with me in grad school. He kept up with blackboard lectures, which were densely mathematical, along with everyone else, just by listening to what the professor was saying. He was one of the outstanding students in the class. An amazing person.
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Or maybe they mean (or misinterpret) it was written directly with 386 features in mind (like Doom...remember DOS extenders and protected mode?), not available on the 286 or 8088? A lot of companies were conservative at abandoning older processors.

But I don't remember these games being blazingly fast at all, even on Pentiums. Timing bugs did start appearing for some games (Sierra's Quest For Glory 4 is one of the most infamous ones for timing bugs in my head), but I thought these surfaced at least another generation or two later.
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This thread created many accounts of viewpoints opposite to mine, reporting how the younger generation loves to share everything with the panopticon, while the older generation is highly averse after to their experiences with Stasi 1.0. I'm happy to be proven wrong.

The conservative older people around me (e.g. family and their peers) all share the perspective I described, and that's all I have to qualify my statement. They are also all conservative or FDP voters. Weirdly enough, even those from Saxony or Thuringia didn't realize the Stasi analogy.

"Today no-one has their eyes on me, it's all just machines" was the most common sentiment I heard from them. Which might actually be a common stance ... across all generations.
There is absolutely nothing preventing blind coders from using Python. Indentation can easily be reported by any screenreader I am aware of and it is a very clean, screenreader-friendly language for the rest. I really enjoy working with that language
Thank you for doing this. And for saying this.
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"Neuropsychologists compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, discovering that the part of the brain that normally works with our eyes to process vision and space perception can actually rewire itself to process sound information instead."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104123.ht...
There is a theory that explains this, which says it is a by-product from a survivalist psychology in children.

"children who believe their elders when they say things like "don't go swimming in the river; there are alligators there who will eat you" are more likely to survive than children who insist on finding out for themselves. Such unquestioning belief has drawbacks, like occasionally believing something that isn't true, but these drawbacks are minor compared to the advantage of not dying young." - The God Delusion
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