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Because language, to a large decree, determines your mode of thought. By learning a different language, you also learn how to think and reason differently. It doesn't matter whether you actually use it to talk to people or not.

For example: some African languages don't have temporal tenses --- they don't distinguish between past, present and future. Some Scandinavian languages don't have gender, anywhere. Some languages (though I've forgotten which) don't have possessive pronouns. All of these will expose you to new modes of thought.

It's precisely the same concept as learning as many programming languages as you can; learning Forth will make you write better C. Learning Lojban will make you speak better English.
Gov vs american;
american win!
ofc,10 is greater than 1
its logic !
business, entrepreneurship, startups, technology and solutions for startups (I am not a tech person so I have to educate myself on new trends and how it all works to better understand my team), self-development (in terms of entering the tech & startup community), branding & marketing, networking & relationship building.

These would be the categories I'd come to HN for. And I just clicked on a topic and was redirected to National Geographic.

I am a marathoner so my other interests include anything related to running, training, etc. but for those I go to e.g. RunnersWorld... so for my brain it's a little bit confusing why on something that's called HACKER news one would post things about...nature (inspiration?- "Let's build an app that would prevent animal poaching"?)
Isn't this mostly basically how Meteor works?
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Depends on the offense and country. UK has Small Claims Court, specially designed for easy small claims. I know some ppl who got a succesful judgement out of that when their employers didn't give them their last pay packet fairly. (Tho it has to be said, Tory goverment is making access to justice harder, mostly by changing the fee structure of who pays.)

Tho I do think a more transparent work culture would be very interesting (especially in our industry where workers have a fair amount of choice), laws do have their place. Many people in other industries find themselves in positions where they know a employer is shit but they are desperate for a job so apply anyway.
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Who buys this stuff? Are they so uninformed they don't know what's going on?
Startup Iceland 2015 – Reflections and Thank You Iceland
More on it, http://mashable.com/2015/05/29/color-changing-hair/
Pentesters always win. The isn't a network that is absolutely secure and if you really need to, you can always spearfish the secretary.
If that is the case then why did the evil Robots have no Asimov Laws ?

The good butler robots had the 3 Laws.

The dreamer hero robot had no laws but had imagination and developed its own morality.
If you have a decent income, it is possible to live with a oxycodone addiction. You know that the substance is free of adulterants and is consistently dosed. Pure oxycodone should have limited side effects.

However, if you are not in such a good financial position, a heroin addiction will almost certainly ruin your life. From the financial burden of the substance itself, to side effects from adulterants and the impredictability of a dose, you roll the dice every time you shoot up.
There's been various articles over the years discussing their strategy. They were targeting the third world market with customized distributions for inexpensive educational computers, and focusing on making the installer easy to use.

http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/mandriva_c...

> Mandriva, a France-based Linux distributor, spent eight months customizing its operating system for the Classmate, and adapting education applications specially developed for Intel's World Ahead program. In addition, these Linux-based Classmates will be produced in Brazil, part of Intel's local laptop assembly manufacturing plan, for delivery to Brazil, Mexico, India, and other assorted developing countries.

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Nigeria-Puts-Mandr...

> At least 11,000 Classmate PCs ordered by Nigeria will run Mandriva Linux, and not Windows, according to a government spokesperson. ... Mandriva will be deployed on at least 11,000 PCs destined for the Nigeria Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), a government organization.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122332198757908625 (paywall)
http://my.ewb.ca/posts/13/46149
https://handyfloss.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/my-opinion-on-ma...
(for non-SWJ subscribers, these two summarizes some of the WSJ article's points.)
Unfortunately Tahoe-LAFS is something I've been looking at recently and it suffers from a few missing features which have been known for many years.

(The one that I want most is the ability to rebalance on the fly, as storage-hosts become full.)
Sad of the demise of Blekko search engine. It's now part of IBM to build their inhouse "freebase" style data source for Watson AI, as Google closed freebase.com

I wonder what DuckDuckGo will do, as their primary search source the Yahoo BOSS API got more expensive in June 1, 2015: https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/#pricing ($1.80 per 1000 Queries; the free tier is no more)
Cortana on Android in this june
It is harmless compared to many other substances, including aspirin and acetaminophen. Pretty much everything when taken in excessive quantities is harmful.
> The cost of taking someone to court far exceeds the likely result if you win the case

This depends a lot on the legal system.

For example, German's labor laws and related procedures differ from "regular" German law in many little ways to prevent the employer from making lawsuits against them impossible (since they're typically the much more powerful side of the dispute).

Examples:

- We have relatively employee-friendly laws to begin with.

- There's no requirement for attorney representation in the lowest labor court.

- The lower labor courts are quite lenient when it comes to formal requirements for paperwork (so you _really_ don't need a lawyer to file your lawsuit)

- There are a bunch of safe guards to prevent the employer from driving up costs for the event that you lose. We usually have a weak "loser pays" system, but in the lowest tier the only costs are court fees and certain travel costs of the opposite party if you lose.

On the other hand German law doesn't know punitive damages, which makes such lawsuits less risky for the employer side as well.
This is like punching a guy who hands you the wallet you just dropped.

This was entirely RESPONSIBLE DISCLOSURE.

They need to send a basket of muffins to the guy.

Surely they should take INTENT into account.

The interesting question is : How much has Starbucks lost because of this vulnerability ( the white hat may not have been the 1st to discover it ) ?
No an inferior product put them out of business. The employee lawsuits were just a symptom.
> I cannot imagine the feeling of the employees either: those who were fired are the ones who walked away with money + take away everyone else's job.

Given Mandriva is not a new start up in a new market that could go any way, I would hope they realized that they would be the laid off employees eventually and would apparently get an illegally bad deal unless the plaintiffs won.

"Mandriva is making a come back," says management. But they recently needed lay offs to get to those numbers. If you shut down a plant you will have great numbers until the shelves are depleted..

Management wants to put themselves in the best light to get the next job but the reality from the perspective of employees is usually quite different.
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>You are actually paying for the pensions of current retirees.

Yes, everyone understands that. But it incurs a debt I will expect to be repaid.

>By definition retirees are people who could still be working but choose not to.

Absolutely. If they paid into the pension system they should be getting a pension. If not they need to rely on their savings.

>How about the disabled and the infirm? Those between jobs?

You're changing the question a bit here. We were talking about people who can work but don't.

>The real issue you seem to have is the "I paid for it" part.

I don't see why you think this is an issue. The money comes out of my paycheck. It's money that I could certainly have saved or used for some other purpose.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to provide for themselves and their families. And I don't mind helping people who can't do so for reasons beyond their control. But I have no interest in supporting people who don't want to work. I don't want to work either, but I drag my ass out of bed every morning, and I don't appreciate other people helping themselves to the fruits of my labor.
I'm also interested in this. DNSCurve? Something else?
> in the 10-15 range there are awesome wines that you don't find if you descend in the 5-7 euro range

I'd second this, and say that the most interesting and various wines can be found around the 15 euro mark.

In Australia (Where red wine snobs like myself abound) the best local wines are usually around the $20 mark. You can pay hundreds of dollars for Grange, but if you're going to spend that money I'd prefer to go for something like the Wild Duck Creek Duck Muck (Awesome wine, way too expensive).

My current favorite is actually the Artigiano Primitivo from Puglia in Italy. $17 at the local bottle shop, and absolutely brilliant :-)

For those interested in Californian Zinfandels I'd highly recommend looking into Primitivos:

"In 1993, Meredith used a DNA fingerprinting technique to confirm that Primitivo and Zinfandel are clones of the same variety. Comparative field trials have found that "Primitivo selections were generally superior to those of Zinfandel, having earlier fruit maturity, similar or higher yield, and similar or lower bunch rot susceptibility.""

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinfandel#Relationship_to_Primi...
I told 2 companies that they are leaking email addresses (got spam on single-purpose addresses).
One replied very kindly and asked for details, the other did not answer, after writing them publicly on twitter they blocked me there...

The misbehaving one was http://joby.com/ they build these awesome gorilla-pods. Do yourself a favor and buy one of the many clones. (got spam to joby.com.singlepurpose@mydomain.com)

More or less shady paypal-shops are the worst though :) (paypal hands your mail-adress out (I wonder why they do not relay communications like ebay))
Tim Cook(Apple CEO) donates $6.5M to charity
Sure. And equally why you can expect more worker exploitation in some countries and less in others.
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I really wonder why he gave out his phone-number and alike. It's really not the first news of this kind.

If you need the fame, use a pseudonym that consists of the same letters as your actual name and uncover the story once it cooled off or something...
Wish the Literata font from Play books would become available.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046511/how-google-made-an-e-boo...
Oh, I thought I'd never encounter this on HN. But since I did, here's the story:

Somewhere in late 80s my mother started to have pain in the abdomen. She went here, then there, then she finally did something like CAT scan or whatever, I don't remember, I just remember is was difficult to get this scan because there was just so few such devices in my home country (friendly advice for those who dream about state-provided health service: you don't take into account that you literally can die while sitting in line for months)

Well, it appears that she got gallstones and quite sizeable ones. Traditional conservative medicine (pills) didn't help much and she was recommended to take the surgical route. She declined because someone told her about urinotherapy. And she did that shit (well, piss) for the next 10+ years. The pains never completely went away, so she used some over the counter painkillers and was getting by so-so. Then one day she felt acute pain again, she was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer, and died in agony in 6 months. She was always dreamed about having grandchildren and my wife gave birth to our daughter the same day my mother went to (totally useless and just an act of despair) surgery to remove the metastasis. Which failed (well, stage 4 and pancreatic - it sounds worse than death penalty conviction). She lived just enough to see my daughter once when she was 3 months old or something. The hospital literally threw her away to die at home (remember, my friends, you want state-controlled health service. The hospital was free. Free comes at a price) and I drove my wife and child to her. She died a few weeks later. In pain and agony.

(did I tell you about the state-controlled health service? I don't remember, but just in case if I didn't - strong painkillers are controlled like weapon grade plutonium. So the doctor decides how many pills you deserve and even if the doctor is good person, the state mandates the limit. And it's a serious felony for a doctor to break this mandate. Painkillers are not technically free, but cost peanuts. You can buy them on the black market though and get 8 years if caught)

An autopsy showed that her gallbladder was full with stones. Doctors said that with a VERY high probability this is a sole cause of cancer. If she haven't listened to the idiot who advised her to take urine instead of the knife or ultrasonic she probably have survived until now (her birthday was 10 days ago and she would have been 75) and was able to see her granddaugther grow in front of her. She died at 61.

You can probably figure out from this rant what do I think about you and your religion. Drink this stuff alone.

I'd probably be downvoted to hell for this, but fuck it.
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Why do it? Ostensibly so it's fixed before someone with malicious intent can get to it. But sometimes for minor fame or for a bounty.

For Starbucks, it's GOOD. It means they're out $2 and some embarrassment instead of out millions when someone sees something is way off in the books.

All that said, I would have tested this more than once to ensure it wasn't some minor built in allowance.
> so it seems likely that there is some correlation between IQ and good political judgement

Considering that many smart people believe in opposing ideologies, many of those being extreme and some which I think are really stupid, I can't believe that. I'd consider empathy and open-mindedness much more likely to correlate with support for good policies. Also people tend to disagree on what policies are good. People disagree on what good basic principles are, what the likely outcomes are, and whether those outcomes are good or not. There is disagreement even among smart people, even after the stupidity of much of the drug war.
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Reminds me of the invented languages Tolkien's Elvish and the language of the Talan in Outcast (video game).
Of course.

However, it's funny how worker migrations usually run opposite to that (from more regulation to less regulation).
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Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea
I am trying to learn golang for almost one year. Went through the docs, completed https://tour.golang.org/ and watched few talks. Now I want to get my Go knowledge in real working code via weekend project. No specific preference, just to let you know I am fluent in Python and working as a backend developer in day job.

Thanks in advance.
They were mostly refugees from the collapse of the Roman empire and various other invasions and wars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice#History
Who wants to be a Starbucks-Crypto millionaire
I'm rather like Solresol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol

It's like Brainfuck, but for natural language.
Thanks for this. All good info.

> Which lower level concepts?

I may be misusing the terminology but I had in mind the sorts of things Python does for you, like memory management.

> If your goal is more to learn a low-overhead compiled language, I would recommend rust.

Now that you mention it, this is probably the main thing I want. Integration with Python would be nice though and, as mentioned in a previous comment, I have to learn C for university soon anyway.
Ask HN: Are there forgotten servers out there?
I was wondering if there are "forgotten" servers out there. No longer doing anything, but still up and running.

Is there any way to even know?
I'm a little surprised at the negativity in this thread. They've announced flexible, soft touch interfaces which can be produced at scale using existing production methods. Isn't that at least really cool? Do you not think there are places this could be used?

I don't know if I can think of many "showstoppers" but is it really that hard to imagine places where a new input device could be used?

Soft, invisible, cheap (?) touch sensors that are flexible and easy to work with.

Things I'd use this for / would like to play around with:

1. Touchpad on the side of my sofa, so I can use gestures to control TV and media.
2. Touchpad on the side of my headboard in the same material as the rest with a subtle marking on which I can control / dim my lights. Similar things for controlling alarms.
3. Improving children's toys that require buttons now but do so by having hard things surrounded by some padding. I imagine "tickle me elmo" that was able to say "you're tickling my feet!" would be popular.
4. Would this detect my feet through socks? Run a bunch through my carpets, I'm sure I can do some fun stuff with home automation with that by knowing which room I'm currently in. Similarly for that, I'd like to track some of my habits, how long do I actually spend just sitting on the sofa or how often do I really get up from my desk and go somewhere else?
5. Make some board games. Fabric + some metal pieces, all the complex logic could sit on your phone.
6. Better sleep tracking? Do I curl into a ball, starfish, keep rolling about a lot?

Those are mostly just things I'd like to do at home. What about interfaces where you want to present something to other people? I've seen touchscreens at restaurants/bars, would a soft less delicate one work well?

To be honest, I think that you could make an absolute killing selling a t-shirt that had a touch sensitive star-trek looking badge that answers the phone. Not world changing, but I can definitely see that this could be used.
Who the hell doesn't think of `sizeof` as a function?
Hell, just look at "gamergate" from the past year... Even without mentioning a side, or even which way you lean or assign a viewpoint a mention of the situation garners a visceral response. I myself had only seen it in passing mention a bunch on twitter a pro/anti gamergate and it took a lot of effort to even dig into wtf was going on.

Even then it was absurd. I think that people need to grow the hell up, and develop a little bit of a thick skin here. I also agree with other comments, any legal charges are best met with legal council, and I don't think the law firm in question is driven by proper motives, which should be to establish if the charges have merit and what corrective actions to take if they do. It seems more about perpetuating murky legal maneuvering.
You could always prefix the arguments with their place markers. Then choose to move them around, or leave them in their default positions. Most selbri (predicates) never had many sumti (arguments), and the default first or second were designed (rightly or wrongly) to be the most common. Very like arguments to a function, and then having the option of having named argument.

And if there was no parameter you could add it. There were mechanisms for creating new places with appropriate markers. Sounds like you never got to that part of the language - it was definitely in the more advanced usage, but actually when you came across it in practice your brain tended to do the right thing with it. In that sense the system worked as intended.
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Unlike domain names they're immutable. So if it's good now, it's good as long as the private key is kept safe.

If you want to cross reference the identity with an email address you could use a keyserver. If you want to cross reference the identity with a domain name, you could use a TXT record.
They say the hardware is ready; so when can we expect developer kits?
You should try Vainglory.
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Yes, the Pickard bust[0] was an interesting example of this. A highly productive, extremely smart and insightful researcher was given two(!) life sentences(something even most violent criminals, rapists and murderers don't get) at a high security prison. His crime was manufacturing LSD, which has no recorded overdoses, is not addictive, and reports of it harming users are extremely rare. Here[1] is a brief account of his heartbreaking story, and here[2] is more information about him, also containing links to recent papers that he published.

[0]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

[1]- http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/William-Pickard-s-long-s...

[2]- https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/pickard_leonard/
I learned C from 'Kernighan & Ritchie', where it's never referred to as a function but as a compile-time operator. I've never thought of it as a function.
(Author here.)

Great comment, thank you. But I think the infohash should actually be shared, packfiles are pretty deterministic in practice. So you'd be getting the diff packfile from the person who just made it, and anyone else who already did.

(If I find packfile generation to not be deterministic enough, I think I'll switch to using a custom packfile generation that is always deterministic.)
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While you're absolutely right, unless there's something in it for you beyond curiosity / because you can, the risks much outweigh the benefits IMO.

Why would you help a for-profit company for free? Would they do the same for you? What is the best-possible scenario, a reward / job offer / gift certificate? What is the worst-possible scenario? Years in prison? Legal cases which drain all your savings? It hardly seems worth it to do this. Software vulnerabilities are EVERYWHERE, but trying to be a Good Samaritan in a hostile capitalistic environment doesn't tend to work out in your favor very often.
I imagine it would be great to sit through my commute, while typing something on my knees, with the touchscreen keyboard integrated into the fabric of my trousers.
1. Be a better dresser.

2. Travel.

3. Plan to stay in touch with the people I met and the friends I made.
Maybe they hired The Iconfactory again after the crushing critiques on their own (failing) attempts to create a proper set (what were they thinking?)...
Git and bittorrent use exactly the same hash format (sha1); bittorrent is no more susceptible than Git.