skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand your comment. I was asking for clarification as the statement did not match my understanding of banishment across several cultures, nor does the logic used to reach the conclusion make sense.

In this context I used "threat" as a short-hand for the previous poster's "Therefore, most of the time, banishment did not lead to starvation or even necessarily isolation". I did not mean it as a purely physical threat. Indeed, the link I gave to Aboriginal customary law uses 'threat' for both physical and non-physical punishments ("In addition to the threat of being killed for a breach of customary law it has been reported that in some cases the threat also involved the denial of mortuary rites"), so my broader use does not appear to be unusual.

Therefore, I agree with your comment, as it is a restatement of mine. But my experience is that comments with similar structure to yours are meant to point out incorrect or incomplete statement. Yet I don't see how that's the case here.

Would you kindly elaborate the intent behind your response?
Reading code is easier than writing code, but I guess some people don't like doing that. I hesitate to call anyone stupid as they did have their non-npm thing, but still.
I'm not sure how many people would be willing to wait a week, when the competition has cars ready to go on the lot, that you can test before you buy (so you know it's not DOA).

Many car purchases are made when the old car is dead, and it's hard to wait a week in that case. Plus a week is probably optimistic for production, and if assembled overseas, delivery is also going to be lengthy.
The fact that the article is mentioning MemGC as a defense against use-after-free attacks (something I don't believe managed languages need be concerned) and the way Control-Flow-Guard is described leads me to think it's primarily C++. Probably a mix of native/managed, but I suspect that any managed code is kept to a minimum given the emphasis on native protection and countermeasures. If this is the case then I'd be interested in their rationale in deciding not to go 100% managed.
> In Germany's behavior within the E.U. and open desire to rule Europe?

Citation needed. It's Germany's money that's bankrolling the bailouts, and as far as I can tell (from quite some distance away, mind you), the public opinion is less "We need Lebensraum! Let's take over southern Europe!" and more "Fund Greece & co with my tax money? NOPE NOPE NOPE."
Did you even read the link already provided? I advise you to look into the history of the people on the Trust Board, and the people on Alcor's board of directors, and the people of Alcor's general staff. Note how many are members of Alcor, or who have family members already being preserved, and thus have a personal interest in the mission succeeding. How about you browse their library and see what things are being discussed and by whom? http://www.alcor.org/Library/index.html

Then consider you don't even have to be rich. As already noted on this very page (ed: I see you already noted that), it costs $80k to suspend your head with Alcor. Not $800k, which would still be pretty reasonable and not only for the rich, because someone in their 30s can pay only $60/mo for a 20-year life insurance policy paying out $1m.

Edit2: I'd also ask you to wonder if the company is evil, but trying to hide it so they can fool rich people, wouldn't they want to hide something like this which can be so easily used to characterize them as evil? http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/bringingdixieback.html
Same here in Germany: Police also did foil an attack lately. The information just came from a shop assistant in a hardware store. And what: Again they want get into more surveillance.
>Have you seen that personally?

I've had it told to me by several people that migrated during the crisis, and have read several articles on it on Greek media.

Here's an example from an older article on similar issue (but with a happy ending):

Elsa Athanasiou, owner of Athos, complained to authorities that she has started receiving letters and phone calls saying things like “Go back to your stinking country!” or “Pigs, go home!”

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2015/03/22/germans-protect-greek...

Similar to the things I've heard. But there's other stuff for other ethnicities too, the popular press headlines for people from Southern AND eastern europe, the anti-islam protests that saw thousands of people marching, frequent attacks on Jewish establishments, etc.

Here's another metric:

(...) according to a 2013 study by the Technical University of Berlin, in 14,000 hate-mail letters, emails and faxes sent over 10 years to the Israeli embassy in Berlin and the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel found that 60% were written by educated, middle-class Germans, including professors, lawyers, priests and university and secondary school students. Most, too, were unafraid to give their names and addresses – something she felt few Germans would have done 20 or 30 years ago.
You don't care about anything that will outlast you?
That sounds quite familiar. I got them from my parents many years ago, and they got them new in an audio store in Sydney. I have the original brochure and manual somewhere, I'll see if I can dig them out.
It's not like you can't setup some special accounts to wait for you for that case if you're rich.
> It's not like there's a technology department of the US governement.

True, hundreds of IT departments. But in a central role there is now the US Digital Service (created last year):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
Ryan: was curious how many times you applied to YC before getting in?
Microsoft ships their browser on 250-300 million new PCs and tablets every year, or roughly 200% more computing devices than in 1999. Most of those go to consumers. I'd say Microsoft will continue to have a foothold (of some scale) with consumers by default as well, even if it's just 10%-20% of PC/laptop/surface consumers that will use the Microsoft browser by default, that becomes a big installed base.
I finally got the gall to apply to Recurse after a couple years of following their work and folks coming in and out, waiting for the day I was ready for it. I can't help but be really excited just at the change to work with so many ridiculously intelligent folks. It really is a new age when it comes to education in the programming field and it is just so exciting to be a part of.
The price is known. It is about 200.000 Rub that equals to 3900$.
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AngularJS docs page error results in self-parody
Solid details on the
financial performance of
individual VC firms is
difficult to get in public.

Maybe A16Z is doing well,
at least in comparison,
maybe like a WWII piston powered
fighter plane instead of a
horse but still not
an SR-71.

It remains: Nearly all the US
high end IT is for US national
security with only meager
connection with Silicon Valley
VC. Telling point: Nearly no
Silicon Valley VC has the
background to be a problem
sponsor or project reviewer
for NSF, NIH, or DARPA.
Ah, I think it's possible HN to be rationally mad, but I still wouldn't weight that factor. I thought all pekk was saying is "I evaulate my needs, not HN's needs".
Same here.

I am also outraged, what our government is doing and how they get away with it.

I think, political disinterest has just risen so much, that most people just ignore everything. 30-40 years ago, chancellors stumbled upon much less, but today they just keep on lying.

I even heard, that only 15% or so of the German population is interested in the lying and spying scandals. Everybody seems to be more interested in the price of bananas or if the government promises lower taxes.

We train our politicians, that they can be corrupt, that they can lie and do anything that is for their profit and get away with it. Consequently what we will get is an even more corrupted system in the future.

I fear that we will again reach the state of the 1930s years. And what will happen than, nobody can say. Maybe a new dictator or even the world wide dictatorship of the big corporations. In Italy we saw, how much might just one media mogul can unfold.
No, just the usual things, ending world hunger, helping your city, sponsoring a university, cancer research, your children, etc.

And even if you're that selfish, you could always throw some great parties with models and champagne, or pay to have your enemies killed...
True free market capitalism is the polar opposite of slavery. The only transactions which are allowed are ones in which both parties have consensually agreed to the set terms.

Welfare isn't effective I agree. What do you think about a NIT?
I may be out of touch but I'm still using Namecheap. Even though their interface isn't the fanciest, it does the job and they offer pretty good DNS service too if you need that in a registrar.
Temple Run 2 vs. Super Dash Run
http://i.imgur.com/PCq0sl1.png

Screencap for when it gets fixed
Ridiculous, he isn't a 'good' guy, he works for someone who tortures and murders innocents without qualms or cares.

Down vote the truth.
Have you ever had any 1 on 1 contact with anyone in the leadership of a company in the field? If so what sort of contact/relationship with them did you have to give you the insight into their beliefs?
Dolphins are the smart ones....42
I bet you're one of these only testing on chrome nowadays...
Given there was a time when cars were (proportionately) more expensive, much less reliable, and mergers of companies were more common, requiring a dealer network to avoid you getting a very expensive dud probably seemed an attractive idea to the public.
I only applied once although I would guess that 1/3 of my batch had been rejected previously, so don't be discouraged if you don't get in on the first try. Remember you don't need anybody's permission to build a great company.
I'm working on a network flow monitoring system called Cistern [0]. Part of it is a time series storage engine called Catena [1]. I've also written a few protocol implementations for it, including sFlow v5 [2] and SNMP [3].

[0] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/cistern

[1] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/catena

[2] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/sflow

[3] https://github.com/PreetamJinka/snmp
Here's the twist: The big names in JS that are on Twitter almost never tweet about JS. They usually rant, like normal people.

Here's some names:

- Douglas Crockford (grandfather/Chuck Norris of JS)

- Nicholas Zakas (Scalability and maintainability)

- Addy Osmani (Modularity, Material Design)

- Paul Lewis (Performance)

- Paul Irish (Chrome, HTML5, performance)

- John Resig (jQuery)

- Pete Hunt (React)

- David Nolen (ClojureScript)

- Christian Heilman (Firefox)

If you're into frameworks, I suggest you follow framework accounts. If you're into vanilla JS, then you're better off following the DevTools and alpha build accounts (Canary, Aurora, Beta) since they usually tweet about new APIs and tools.
A few thoughts come to mind

>Realistically, do programming courses get better/more interesting?

I think it strongly depends on your personality. For me, no they didn't. What I discovered (far too late) was that I liked tinkering with little things like a web site for fun or an algorithm in computational physics, but I hated software engineering as a field in the real world. I know folks who really get a kick out of refactoring a library and do a great job at it—I'm not that person. I know folks that can have a great time writing super awesome unit tests and messing with makefiles—I get frustrated. Although I like improving legacy code from time to time, I can't do it full-time.

> I took a few classes at my community college and to be honest, they discouraged me.

The people that I knew that took programming courses in community college and then university overwhelmingly thought that university was better. Obviously this is anecdotal, but I feel like I need to mention it as 100% of developers I know who have done both recommend university. (Interestingly, however, this is not true of the mixed folks like graphic designers I know that do a little bit of code and mostly design)
More likely closer to 25% to 30%

Every other major source than that one reports IE well above 12%

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-u-s-popular-web-browse...

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
- Building an entity-component framework in C++ and making Space Invaders. No code because it's literally terrible but here's some "gameplay footage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxQZz0yr4V4

- Building a forum that's a sort-of-but-not-entirely HN clone in PHP. It's a free app on Pagodabox and still mostly doesn't work but assuming it's awake what there is of it is here: http://original-oak.gopagoda.io/ This might wind up being my final project this semester, and if it is I will post it here, or maybe not I don't know.

- Unity tutorials and ragequitting/restarting Handmade Hero all the time.
You are right about the fact that XP pushes for (and should achieve!) a 40 hour week. Again I think it's unfortunate that in the start up world we have thrown out work life balance. As if working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week is a reality that is necessary for a successful start up. I disagree. My two start ups were both quite successful without having to work people more than 40 hours because we had good principles.

We realized very early on that we honestly didn't get a huge amount of value out of the hours after 40. Why do start ups work late into the night? To deploy a feature that is having trouble? Continuous integration and deployment help with that. Adding a new amazing feature that has to be in by morning? When you have a prioritized backlog of features you can tell potential investors or customers when something will be done and they can schedule around that. No need to work until 4am to present at 8am.

I guess I am very against reactionary development. When I am at the helm of a company or a development department, big or small, I don't allow others to dictate my schedule or my ability to make great software. I have been quite lucky, maybe, that my investors and customers have very much appreciated, and paid for, my approach.
It's possible to get a custom order car right now, and if you tried buying one, you'd know why it sucks. It takes much longer than a week to get the car, try several months, and that won't magically change, it just can't. Considering that it takes over 45 hours of non-stop driving to go from Orlando to Seattle (chose a southeast point and northwest point to show how long it takes at its worst), you can see how a week might be a stretch. It would take two of those days non-stop in best conditions, leaving you with 5 days to build the car.

Hell, even buying a Tesla means you have to wait a month or two for your new car to arrive.
>> the Australian government really did foil a possible terrorist attack

If you buy that.
The Prisoner's Dilemma is frequently mentioned because it is one of the most fundamental building blocks of game theory. Almost everything else that we think of as game theory is either a variant of it, built on top of it, or is an attempt to tweak it.

The simplest version of the Prisoner's Dilemma succinctly explains both (1) why rational beings feel compelled to have a moral code in the first place, and (2) why they so often disobey the moral code that they themselves believe in. It's best for everyone to cooperate; but in the absence of a guarantee that everyone else will, it's in my best interest to defect.

Of course, you can't get from PD to police corruption in a single step. Lots of intermediate steps and computer modeling is needed to get there. But most of that is probably too technical for an Aeon article, so the article only mentions the first and last steps. A more detailed account of the models they used would be very interesting, but that's probably the job of actual scientific papers.
It is pretty much the exact same story in NZ (surveillance, secret trade deals, privatization, blindly following others into war). I currently want to leave NZ in the next couple of years, less for political reasons and more for wanting to live somewhere culturally different, just to try it.

What about Canada, how are they fairing now days?
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trpl/enums.md is super weird, and also in the wrong order (the book documents enums before structs, and way before tuple structs, whereas enums are IMO easiest explained once you've already explained structs). I was going to send you a PR tomorrow or so. :)
Seconded. Shouldn't have to understand the "context", that should speak for itself
involved absolutely no creativity or exploration

That's why you hate programming classes. It's that simple.

Most classes, but programming in particular, tend to be taught by people who aren't really into the subject. They're teachers, not programmers, or mathematicians, or historians. They have no enthusiasm, so they go by the curriculum, which will be dry, and without amusing anecdotes, or sidebars or glimpses of the future.

If the teachers were programmers, they'd be doing programming, not teaching at a community college. I'm sure that exceptions exist, but I don't think you've encountered one.

As far as doing things you're interested in, just do them. Software can be free - use Linux and other free/libre/open source software. Just get a book or find a website and do it. Follow up on questions you've got. Don't let anything go unanswered or unexplained. Google for answers, ask on stackexchange sites or whatever. Teach yourself, don't rely on uninterested, uninteresting educators to teach you. They can't. Only you can teach yourself.
Books! Nah, let's restrict them to cuneiform tablets. There are more than one million of them in museums, that should be enough to answer any science or history question. (Just be sure to learn Sumerian to read them).
Thanks, though I'm a little suspicious when I see this:

2) VIOLATION OF FEDERAL WIRETAP ACT (18 U.S.C. § 2510, et seq.);
3) VIOLATION OF THE STORED COMMUNICATIONS ACT (18 U.S.C. § 2701, et seq.);

You'd think one or the other, no? (AFAIK Superfish didn't touch anything even remotely covered by SCA). This looks like classic "all of the torts" shotgun filing. Which makes sense for a civil case, but it's not much of a guide as to what criminal cases would be viable.
If these stupid laws about direct sales weren't in place I could very well imagine someone restarting manufacturing in Detroit or some other fallen place (definitely in the USA!) and doing build-on-demand.
Yes, programming courses get better and more interesting. The interesting ones aren't usually called "programming classes" -- they are usually some kind of theory or design classes that make you solve problems and build stuff. Maybe you can find something on Coursera or these other online courses where there is programming involved, but it's not the emphasis of the class. I am pretty sure when you take a class that challenges you, it will really whet your appetite for more.

I know UC Berkeley has a lot of their CS class pages online. You can check it out and see what kind of stuff they teach.

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/classes-eecs.html
And the evidence that is never "right", but never explained why.
That sounds like laziness on the part of the instructor. Textbooks are subject to being outdated the moment they are printed; restricting the scope of learning to that in an age where information is free and easily accessible sounds absurd.

If that were my kid, I'd be asking for more context from the instructor/school on the situation. If the school's response isn't what I deemed acceptable, I'd demand either a change in the scope, or that my kid was placed in an environment that reflects how today's learning actually occurs.
The first one is limited to .gov websites, and lots of government agencies still use IE for internal use.

The second one excludes mobile, for no good reason that I can see. Mobile is huge.
Has anyone done the math on if Tesla will be able to meet future demand without sending supply to 'dealerships' (or other lots?)? I'd imagine a large portion of a dealership's cost is in inventory/inventory management. (could be wrong though...)
I'd like to see a polished common configuration API.

Currently, we have Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Salt (amongst others) all working to create a sane common abstraction on top of a rainbow of configuration files and command-line arguments.

Each of them have their strengths, and frankly they're all impressive in their own right. But there's only so much you can do to reign in the chaos of the bazaar.

The Docker workflow certainly has its merits. It's great for narrowing dev-prod parity and repeatability. I've embraced it, but I'm a bit anxious that we, as a community, might end up creating bigger black boxes -- Dockerfiles upon Dockerfiles.
Does Amazon have one? How did you find out Facebook has one coming? I'm assuming facebook needs one for their own data center, and if that's the case then could this mean they want to enter a similar market as AWS?
And now vehicles cost almost 10% more [1] due to the banning of direct sales.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm
Great work guys, but correct me if I am wrong but it seems the reasons you decided to build Deku (if I am understanding what you have written) did not seem to be anything other than you were not a fan of how React doesn't take a completely functional approach to building components. Is that an appropriate assumption to make based on what you have written in your article?

I feel a little disappointed to be honest. Because as I was reading, I was expecting to read that you somehow had created a dom-diffing algorithm and matching library that was more performant than React.js, but really it just came down to the fact you didn't like how React.js looks. I was rooting for you from the beginning, expecting to see someone had created something superior to the much hyped React, but it didn't happen.

I don't want to hate on what you've done, looking through the code reveals that you put some considerable effort into Deku, but it makes me wonder if that effort could have been spent on perhaps learning the inner-workings of React.js and adapting it to your needs in its own fork. But having said that, Deku to me only has a few slight differences to React.js, the way components are built in Deku in comparison to React.js doesn't appear to be that dramatically different.

I don't want this comment to come across as yet another cynical HN commenter, but I just cannot see anything comprehensively different to existing solutions. I hate seeing talented development hours going to waste that could have been used to make an already existing project better.
I'm updating one year old Rust code currently, it's pretty obvious a tremendous amount of work has gone toward making it a more usable language. Yet it is not a small one, so some effort to master it is to be expected...
They are not any better. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/66970595/snowden-do...

They probably spy on their own citizens via the aussies.
I can't tell to what extent I am like you, but I can relate.

I really like developing complete programs and games from the ground up and tinkering with code, but I'm not sure about the other topics. Once I am done with a project I will often refactor the code just because it's sort of fun/nice to have clean and organized code. I just don't know if I could see myself doing this every day.

What were later courses like for you?
Cuneiform? Bah. Writing itself is a crutch. We should force them to memorize thousands of lines by rote, as in the days of Homer and the Northern European bards.

There's a famous section in Plato's Phaedrus which gives an argument against writing on the grounds that it will both damage the memory and lead to unoriginal thought (since people will just repeat arguments that they've read in books, rather than coming up with original ones).
> Why is it so popular now?

Because transpilers.