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I would hesitate to make primary schools kids learn 'coding' because personally, I find the underlying problem solving more inspiring than learning syntax.

FIRST Lego League [1] offers a compelling alternative though. I competed in FLL with a team of other primary school kids and greatly enjoyed designing a robot (with motors and sensors) and then programming it to solve tasks using a drag and drop language. Each member of our team could focus on the part they enjoyed most rather than everyone sitting in front of the computer.

"FLL challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers" and has a glamorous 'World Final' event that is honestly the coolest thing in the world when you're 11.

[1]: http://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/
The difference is the Sys Admin don't know (or care) about the binaries produced by development. They simple configure a host, deploy it, and if they run into an issue, shoot it over to development to fix.

In DevOps, sys admins are, at some point, actively working with the development team during development to understand the logic, and members of the development team are actively working with the ops teams to understand how the code is deployed. The goal is that sys admins can understand production errors, and developers get a sense for how their code is deployed.
All miners 'compute on' the same blockchain. That is, they compete for the priviledge of adding the next block for the mining and transaction rewards that come with it. Thus, NASDAQ transactions (as all bitcoin transactions) are secured by the hashing power of the global network.

In short, that's why NASDAQ is using bitcoin rather than their own blockchain app, as it is the most secure blockchain in terms of a computational attack.
They're far from a secret imho. Maybe I'm wrong but every one I ride is usually packed unless it's an odd hour. Also, to get to some places you'll pretty much need to ride a bus if you want to get there easily. La Guardia springs to mind. And if you're in Manhattan the cross-town buses can basically be an essential part of life.

But I agree with this article 100%. If you live or travel a lot in NYC learn the bus system, it will only help you.
As I understand DevOps are often meant to have more developer skills than sysadmins. They might have to help with how some infrastructure things in the applications should work and should be able to script the applications themselves, not just the OS. That said I just think it is a role inside the system administrators group that is expected to know some extra things and have much more discussions with the developers (or a person inside the development group that knows more about sysadmin and has the right to do more things with the servers).
Really? The children of the "Great Generation?" The love for Baby Boomers in my work video shown to the whole company and a lot of the literature seems to always life them up as the best working generation who built the US Economy tot he power house of the 1980s and beyond.
>Prices are incredibly increased, from the $0.0001 USD/BTC they used to be on the open markets.

Yes they increased a lot in the past. Then they started falling and they've been doing that for a year and a half now.

>Your statement shows that you completely misunderstand how markets work.

It's not my statement as I said it's an example of a common sentiment in the bitcoin community.
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> who should take care of the kids if something happens to both myself and my spouse

I would expect this to be a very rare occurrence. Most likely is an accident that kills one of the parents only, but in most scenarios where both parents are together, they would have the children with them. I guess it's always important to plan for risks, even if they are rare, if the consequences are very bad - 'high threat, low probability' is the military term, I believe?
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This actually sums it up pretty well and it's also the cause for the shortage. A lot of developers don't want to learn all the tools that sysadmins and devops are using. And I suspect that many sysadmins don't know enough about programming.
What's the point of being competitive if you throw your quality of life away to obtain it?
> If kids are good at abstract problem solving, denying them access to computer programming is like denying them sports if they like to kick balls around.

Hear hear! We should be identifying students' aptitudes and interests and ensuring they're getting the best training possible towards up-skilling them these inclinations as early as possible.

Not everyone follows the same path, and the disaster is that we make others feel bad for not following the mainstream path laid out in front of them.

I'm one of those who tread from the path and nearly fell of the cliff, but managed to find a way with software in my very late teens, just in time. I can't imagine and almost don't want to think about those who never found a place in society as a failure of early education methods...
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It's much more complicated than that, but I'm not really interested in discussing this further.
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This is a myth that keeps getting repeated. The US government didn't revoke his passport leaving him stranded in Russia, they revoked his passport the day before he left Hong Kong [1]. He traveled to Russia on what turned out to be an invalid travel document issued by the Ecuadorian embassy in London [2] (same one that Julian Assange is holed up in).

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-source-nsa-leaker-snowdens...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-...
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Great observations.

I’ve seen this with clients competitors, what may look terrible to me as a web site developer looks entirely different to a non-tech customer. Advertising is not 100% science and small businesses are not faced with the same branding constraints big business is.
Disagreement is a perfectly valid reason for downvoting someone.

No. It isn't.

How would you feel if people shut you out of a discussion because they disagreed with you?

If someone says something you disagree with, debate them. If they say something factually incorrect, correct them. They may even thank you for it. And guess what, they may end up changing your mind, or correcting a mistake on your part.

Actively seeking to censor somebody for having a different perspective on something is frankly abhorant.

I find it ironic that this kind of behaviour is being encouraged in this thread of all. Snowden's actions will prove to be a giant waste of effort if your kind get their way.
> sensationalizing the issues in order to milk these documents for as long as possible

That's the only way to fight politicians who know how the news-cycle work: just sit tight for a couple of weeks and anything will be forgotten. By "refreshing" every few months, they kept the issue on the agenda. Recent legislative wins in this area are almost entirely due to this strategy: in the first month after release, there was massive support behind Feinstein and her likes; now that side has slowly been eroded down to a few securocrats and the usual hawks, which is why wins are happening in courts and in Congress.

> It seems like just about every release following has been purely about legitimate foreign intelligence operations

We really don't know how "legitimate" those descriptions of people hacking equipment in transit were. Besides, there is a world beyond the US -- Greenwald publishes from Brasil, he doesn't have to follow the wishes of the US government. Would you have kept quiet on the Bay of Pigs operation just because it was a "legitimate" foreign operation from a US-gov perspective?

Journalism is not about covering government press releases.
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Its only obvious to people Valve would likely hire :)
Ugh, why the jab at bitcoin? Replace 'bitcoin community' with any community and you've got a true statement. The amount of garbage hype jobs I see in tech outside of bitcoin is huge, it's just a facet of a market in which companies want to act bigger than they are for various reasons, put out PR pieces, and forums, newspapers and tech websites repeat them largely, usually in particular in the title because they have as much to gain from clickbait hype as the company itself, in a world of social where you're hoping people click your link on facebook.
In my opinion, it's about drugs and cultural undertones that drugs are permissive, that you can be the "druggie guy", and to some, it's hip and cool. I blame the intelligentsia.

Try the scenario when you're in a low income family with an addict. This very easily leads to a vicious cycle - eventual arrest and incarceration. That's one less person coming home with a paycheck. That's a family growing up a generation with a criminal.

And our culture doesn't shame (rightfully) the selfishness of doing drugs - it's ramifications on families. Instead, we blame cops, we blame the government, the privileged roll eyes and think being soft, sympathetic and compassionate will help.

Whatever the solution we want to take to crime - and however hip Ivy League law students make going soft on this and that - our culture needs to recognize criminal acts are inherently selfish, not cool.
Not the first time Intel does this.

Moblin was started because MS balked at making Windows for a Intel chip that didn't offer PCI enumeration.
I've tried Spotify's (pretty excellent) API...but nowhere in its docs can I find any endpoint in which song plays is revealed. Am I missing something, or has the API recently been updated? Getting play count would be great for data analysis.

For example, here's the GET tracks/:id endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-track/

The closest thing to a play count is the "popularity" value, which is described as thus:

> The popularity of the track. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular.

The popularity of a track is a value between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The popularity is calculated by algorithm and is based, in the most part, on the total number of plays the track has had and how recent those plays are.

Generally speaking, songs that are being played a lot now will have a higher popularity than songs that were played a lot in the past. Duplicate tracks (e.g. the same track from a single and an album) are rated independently. Artist and album popularity is derived mathematically from track popularity. Note that the popularity value may lag actual popularity by a few days: the value is not updated in real time.
A friend of mine recently open sourced a similar solution.

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>Second, about proof-by-Coq: If there's ever a bug in Coq, they're going to have to re-run all the proofs that have been done this way, and see which (if any) of them are actually invalid. (It still may be better than proof by convincing humans, though...)

I'm no mathematician, but drawing a parallel between the general software world and software-aided mathematical proofs: wouldn't it be natural for a "compiler" to start off by using another technology (in this case, a classic "informal" programming language), and in a later date self-host? I'm saying, couldn't coq reach a state where he could prove itself and the technology stack below him down to axioms?
I found this: https://www.youtube.com/user/OnychaHazel/videos

It seems to be a completely automated channel.
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Elements of Style is an excellent place to start. Yes, the academics and pros will debate its advice, as they do any "authority" (same thing with William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well," who passed away recently), but for people who come from a non-writing background it provides a succinct and clear starting guide. As your skills improve so can your rules change.

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We're talking proofs here tho, and you aren't allowed to prove something by "throwing enough input at it", isn't it like saying that unit tests are proofs of the correctness of a program?
Find me one specific example of a person in state or federal prison for small time marijuana dealing or possession. No other crimes involved. Doesn't happen.

Often, the DA will structure a plea bargain on drug or weapons posession (over a long list of more serious charges) because those are very easy to prove.

This idea that the prisons are full of good guys caught up in the system is detached from reality. Most guys doing hard time are guilty of about twenty other things that they haven't been prosecuted for.
Byte-for byte de-duping of search results is perfect and fairly cheap. Fuzzy de-duping is more expensive and imperfect. Users get really annoyed when a single query gives them several results that seem like near copies of the same page.

Tons of pages have minor modifications by JavaScript, and only a very small percentage have modifications done by JavaScript that result in JavaScript analysis resulting in improved search results.

So, if JavaScript analysis isn't deterministic, it has a small negative effect on the search results of many pages that offsets the positive effect it has on a small number of pages.
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In the same way you gain more from communicating via NSA partners, you may gain more from communicating via hardware and software made by NSA partners. Build an app, a copy of something basic like Whatsapp would solve your text needs and let you have a normal smartphone. Do the same for voice with your own SIP servers.
For OpenSSH, take a close, hard look at /etc/ssh/moduli (or wherever it's at) too, in addition to EC curves. I would consider deleting the default moduli and regenerating it.

https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...

In my mind, more generally: EC attempts to make crypto algos stretch using fewer bits but implementations are harder to prove both theoretically (by being more esoteric, therefore fewer eyeballs are able to catch errors) and functionally correct (by having more moving parts). Why haven't more conservative stretching / extension of proven algos happened?

Also, even more broadly, this and at lot of other crypto decisions in TLS come off as seat-of-the-pants, guesswork, cooking by committee rather than simple, feature-minimal and bullet-resistant standards (how many way over-engineered and over-featured encodings do certs need?). The result smells like a pile of poo that will get recall after recall, patch after patch until something about the inputs and decision-making process changes. We can't keep having OpenSSL and the TLS committee saying "yes" instead of "no" to (feature creep) throwing every little edge use-case live into production 1.x branch, the codebase is huge enough, and it's nearly impossible to compile out all the little used crap, even in forks. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is either stupid or insane, or both. OpenSSL and TLS leadership, process changes perhaps?
I think you could turn almost all arguments in this text the other way around. A team of 4 developers spend 12 months building a system and then a DBA works with it for 4 hours a week. Which part should you optimize?

Long time ago there were many more Oracle and DB2 users.
No-one should ever have switched to SQL Server accoring to the logic in the text. Accoring to the text Oracle must be better since it is more expensive in almost all configurations I've seen (in this argument I don't care if it really is better or not). Should all projects that don't need the extra features/quality/performance still pay the premium?
And so on. I agree that there is a cost to esoteric choices but I think is really wrong to say that you should always choose the dominant product/technology. If that were the case we would still use switches on big "mainframes".
Effective immediately to spend more time with family is never good. It could be a termination or a health issue he's not comfortable disclosing.
Because it is a bitcoin article.
Better classified, and as a non-psychiatric condition: He's just a businessman.
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While generational groups may have similar experiences, and therefore similar worldviews based on those experiences, it seems to me that the labels themselves aren't used in that way. They're used more as labels of pride and prejudice, and much of their associated feelings and statements are based on personal beliefs rather than actual human interaction. Consider how many news articles are writing about the habits of Millenials these days with regards to work and life. Most, if not all, of them are written as rants looking to pin the author's dislike of modern culture on a younger generation. Even Boomers had their share of unfounded, ranting criticism from their predecessor generations when they were younger, and it's fair to assume that in the future we'll have articles written by Millennials about how Gen-Z is lazy and ungrateful. Generational cohorts have a place, but we often confuse them with the nature of our entire society rather than just those of a certain age.
Same thing happened to me in Bangkok. Police stopped our taxi, ordered us all out on the street, searched our pockets (presumably for drugs) and then let us go.

The taxi driver made no indication that it was anything abnormal.
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Almost everyone I talk to in person thinks Snowden is a criminal. These people believe the US government was caught doing something it shouldn't have, but Snowden himself is a bad guy to these folks because he's seen as betraying his country.

I think HN is much more pro-Snowden than the general population is, but I think the general population doesn't deny the value of exposing what the US government did. I live in DC however, so there's certainly a pro-government feeling in this down, possibly more so than many other places in the US.

Edit: To add some support for my anecdotes, here's a somewhat recent poll I found from April 21st citing 64% of people hold a negative opinion of Snowden [0].

[0] - http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowde...
The murder rate is that high because of easy access to weapons that make murdering people relatively easy. Shooting someone is a lot easier than knifing someone, point-and-click.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149839

A year ago and still, 4 million songs unplayed? Color me skeptical that they are updating thier list.
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And I would love to see the chance to make $1e6 dollars per economic quintile.

I have a gut feeling that those in the bottom 40% income brackets have a much, much lower chance of making $1e6. I'm guessing that it is probably closer to that of winning the lottery.

I would like to see the numbers/proof though, to see if my hypothesis is correct.
> it was claimed that House of Cards was the results of machine learning and figuring out that the majority wanted Kevin Spacey and a political drama. Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity.

If the algorithms are actually any good, they should lead to more, not less, diversity. The algorithms would be able to detect that enough people want to watch a Kung-Fu thriller set in medieval South India starring Summer Glau to be viable - the point of these things is that "big data" machine learning can process several orders of magnitude more data than a Hollywood-bubble studio executive gut feeling ever could.

Formulaic mass-market blockbuster stuff is the product of humans and their gut feelings, and broad averages over the mass market is the highest abstraction they can handle. Algorithms have no such limitations.

The truly niche/innovative out-of-left-field stuff exists because it was able to bypass concerns about mass-market viability - if anything, the algorithms will pick up on niche trends much quicker, bringing it to a larger audience.
I spent many hours being instructed cursive and "penmanship". So be it - its the essential foundation to all the notes, essays, etc you do in school.

Likewise, if we want kids to have a foundation in computing, I'd advocate a computer penmanship course, probably around basic linux commands, basic networking, etc. Primary school seems too early to appreciate coding, so I'd focus more on rote learning and drilling.

Boring i know, but I think it would pay off more than learning to drag n' drop to the LEGO GUI. I'm someone who never got that foundation, and it has been a burden on my ability to work at a professional level.
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I understand that you think it is more complicated than that, but I don't think it is.

Do you remember what happened with Chelsea Manning?
Because that is what the GP is referring to.
When you get put in military prison, they basically get to do whatever they want to you.
Not really; as Wikipedia accurately puts it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university.

The article goes into a lot of detail about the transformation.
We need to stop writing articles telling us what “we” “need” to do.

This is almost as bad as the myriad of hacks declaring how “our brains” work, usually to explain in some facile way what's wrong with the way some other people think.
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