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That is exactly how I feel about Java: lots of companies use it, so I should know it.

Go is a pleasure to work in. Java, less.
47 billion is a lot of money. In my opinion it's money well spent, but everyone is allowed to have their own opinion of course.

The aid part of that is 29 billion. If we did what we're expected to (what every country is expected to, even if few live up to it), that part should probably be 40 billion - the UN(?) has a goal that every country should spend 1% of GDP on foreign aid.

About the Disqus thing, I'd say that it's ok to expose "public persons" who claim one thing in public and do something different when they think nobody knows its them. This includes politicians, judges, police, other public authorities. Doing this to "normal" people isn't generally justified, IMHO. On the other hand, we have huge problems with bullying online that we need to do something about - and exposing bullies may be a useful part of that.
Extend eXo Platform notification system by using notification channels and types
How I Read a Technical Resume
For my last three jobs I've moved close to the office, within 5 to 15 minutes. For my own sanity I had to and I really love it. I have road rage insanity moments out there on the so cal freeways. I know not everyone has this option, but I won't have it any other way for the rest of my working days.
> come on

Nice Viet-English pun there.

(Cám ơn == thank you.)
To me this looks a bit like a "charity" investment. I've heard rumours Duolingo was running thin on capital while frantically searching for a business model.

However, despite not being profitable yet, Duolingo is doing a tremendous amount of good. I know quite a bit about language learning and learning in general, and I have never seen a better tool for learning the languages they offer. The combination of words, sentences, smart repetition and text-to-speech is pretty much unique, and the courses I've seen are quite well designed.

Caveat: No, Duolingo alone is not enough to get fluent in a language, but if you used it as your only (or major) tool, you'll get very close.
This is from one of the people who helped write the toolbox in Matlab. There is a page limit on the Amazon publishing service, so that is why it's posted here[1]. Chapter 14 describes notation for the recurrent networks and explains their training.

[1]:http://hagan.okstate.edu/NNDesign.pdf
Why not put the $250k into a perpetual trust that yields an inflation adjusted 4% forever? That's a comforting but not overwhelming $10k/year tailwind that they can learn to manage over time. No worries about blowing all the money. Basic income is coming at some point anyway this just gives them a head start.
If you live in the US, this is considered a lottery and is likely illegal. The small print will usually have work-around that does not require a purchase
I really think something like this, if not this, is the future of engineering. Sometimes I think people underestimate the value of having a big space to "push around" various bits on and think things through. Having the resolution to be able to do that at scale means being able to walk up and have a high resolution photograph be literally 4" x 7" on an 84" diagonal screen would change everything.

Assuming 4K screens though, this is only 52PPI on the 84" model. And you would ideally want 200+ dpi. Not that anyone is going to make 84" 16K screens anytime soon (interestingly they are "possible" in that the manufacturing is known, but without an embedded data channel you would not be able to get data to them quickly enough.
Really? Parents offering to subsidize some activities, but not others, are "forcing their children into servitude?" Give me a break. If your parents attaching a few conditions to the $250k trust fund they hand over to you "sounds like hell" try to imagine growing up without a $250k trust fund in the first place. (Or, far worse, without parents.)
Ah, I thought it was a feature that was already available; I've not deeply used Duolingo yet.
The easiest way to handle I/O is to cheat; don't expose the internal channel interface but instead have some fake nodes at the edge of the grid which act as I/O processors with a message-passing interface.

For programming, add an instruction PROGRAM <val>. This writes <val> to program slot BAK and adds one to BAK. Each node starts with its program memory full of PROGRAM ANY and starts with BAK=0. To program a node, simply send the program to it, one word at a time. When the program counter wraps round, your program runs.

To initialise the network, have a serial EPROM connected to a fake I/O node. After startup, the contents of the ROM gets sent, one word at a time, on the I/O node's port. This programs the node it's attached to, which starts running; this then forwards messages on to the next node, which gets initialised and starts running, etc. That way you'd fill the network with message-forwarding programs. Once done, each node starting at the most remote would be overwritten with your real program, and once the root node gets overwritten initialisation is complete.
I just found out that we are also hiring in our office in Austin, TX.
The article makes some very good points, and I'm surprised you don't talk more about the deploy advantages for instance. But I was a bit annoyed by little things that I think are inexact:

- the "one-process-per-request" meme along the post applies only to some ruby app servers (there are event loop and threaded models too, think thin, puma, passenger in some modes) and I guess reading between the lines that it's mostly a problem of thread-safety and async support, because of the gems Parse used to have, right? I'm sure that limits options at some point anyway, but the statement is misleading and not really explained, I'd love to hear more details

- I don't understand how the comments in the little Go file snippet applies in any way to "ruby" ; it may be rails caching mechanisms, or a specific gem, but I have a hard time mapping those very specific details to something intristic to ruby, it seems more like grumpy ruby bashing, like you'd have done php bashing 5 years ago

As all rewrite stories, I think there's a part of envy/excitement over the new cool tech you want to use (and that's fair! pleasure give you huge productivity boosts), and also a part of success related to the fact you know the kind of things you failed in the first version, so you won't make the same mistakes the 2nd time.

I'd love to hear finer details on those points! Great article overall anyway
http://pliny.rice.edu/

http://www.darpa.mil/program/probabilistic-programming-for-a...
https://www.youtube.com/user/thechesswebsite and chess.com
Apple's User Action Search Engine
> The assumption being made is this "waste" is useless, like coal fly ash or something, rather than being the valuable ore that it is.

On a side note, the LFTR people say they fly ash is one practical source of Thorium for their fuel cycle.
>How long do you honestly think a sub would last if it took random pictures of black people and then everyone posted hateful comments?

Uh, there is one and is still up: https://www.reddit.com/r/coontown
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850722
Show HN: Storied Myth – Children's storytelling that combines digital and physical
Sure, I was being flippant. That said, I think it's closer to the mark to put this on a minority than to paint it as being some characteristic element of the British psyche, as if there's even such a thing as the British psyche.
Thanks for the H/T. ;-) We're fans of the project too
Keep in mind that the pcnet NIC is not used by default in most QEMU, KVM, or Xen deployments.

So it's mostly a problem in scenarios where untrusted users may add pcnet NICs to their VMs. Even then, remember that additional layers of security are available. KVM is typically deployed with unprivileged QEMU processes, locked down with SELinux (more details: https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71489.html).
The differences between the iOS app and the web page were startling about a year ago when I first started using it. In particular how different the iOS's coach was and the "on-track" concept on the web. I was excited that they wanted to make it more similar, but then they just cut the coach which I had vastly preferred.
To reinforce your point, DES is now crackable by the public in under a day: https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha...
Transparent? Barely.

The link is still gone from the main site (only available in a comment) and its removal was justified by "we have to pick one".
So aren't those signatures derivative works then?
I don't think they were advocating for investing on margin and maximizing leverage/risk, but rather deciding whether to put your $ towards your debt or towards an investment.

It's the same thing. If it makes sense to keep $300,000 in debt to keep a $300,000 investment then it makes sense to go into $300,000 debt to make a $300,000 investment.

Whether that debt is a mortgage on a primary residence for a tax-equivalent-rate of 2.75% or margin interest for a tax-equivalent-rate of 1.63% makes little difference. This is what people who keep a high mortgage and invest the proceeds of that mortgage don't get. They are doing the equivalent of investing on margin which is extremely high risk. They could lose a large portion (or even all) of their investment and still be left with the debt.
> Fair use doesn't remove a copyrighted work's protections.

It doesn't remove them, it just says that that they aren't even applicable in that case. I.e. there is nothing to remove when it's not there to begin with.

I agree that it's somewhat poorly defined that's why there can be different ways to view it. See https://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php

Approach of "affirmative defense" doesn't sound logical to me. Approach of limiting copyright applicability makes more sense. I.e. fair use defines some borders beyond which copyright can't reach.
Two Kinds of Freedom of Speech (or Strangeloop vs. Curtis Yarvin)
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9591528.
Standard ML and how I'm compiling it
Yep, it's all JavaScript.
Yeah I have to wonder how great Duolingo would have been if I had it as a kid as a learning tool for French (I'm Canadian). I generally got good French marks, but I think Duolingo would have boosted my actual ability.
Android annotation library for crash reporting, log monitoring, event tracking
When I travelled round Georgia and Armenia for a couple of weeks I enabled the Russian, Georgian and Armenian keyboard layouts for my phone (it's just a setting, and then a key labelled EN-RU-GE-AR appeared).

With significant effort I could type some Georgian or Armenian into Google Translate -- they are awful, awful scripts. Russian was easier, but not as widespread as I'd expected. I could also let other people type things, and they all know about switching between layouts, since they do it all the time to type email addresses etc.
It's great that you already have your target customer. In which case, I would reach out to them and focus the marketing content on them.

Your vision of extending it to the general public is possible but again, you'll need to educate us and help us understand why we cannot live without a personalized meal plan. I think you have it on your blog page where you highlight how eating better changed your health. That to me is huge! That's the key benefit you need to sell.

Thanks for sharing the links!
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://time.com/3916434/blackberry-storm/.
Interesting idea, despite the technical problems that might arise, I think it might be a very practical "solution".

You do get some funny/weird situations:

http://map.what3words.com/parir.seguro.rasga

Which translates to giving birth surely rips.
I am a little surprised that Google is join this route. Making Google Cloud into a huge business must be a high priority. I used Borg for a while in 2013, and it was amazingly, specially the logging for tracking down runtime problems.
Unreal Engine 4.8 Released
Are there places I can find lists of cons/events/meetups? Meetup.com is the only one I know of.
Hmm, did you not notice the 2002 dates throughout the article and photo captions?
I am also very disappointed by this. I am mainly interested in learning Mandarin and Japanese. But Duolingo is so good that I decided to start learning Spanish with it till they support Mandarin or Japanese. Now it's one year later, still no Mandarin or Japanese and I ran out of motivation for Spanish a long time ago.
20B nanoparticles talk to the brain using electricity
Your bank account: The next thing to go obsolete
This article appeared on the CNN homepage. Abra relies on the Bitcoin Blockchain. What I found particularly interesting is neither the article nor the company’s site, http://goabra.com, make any mention of Blockchain or Bitcoin.

This must be intentional, which I find very interesting.
I agree that git is an awfully complex tool for non-technical users to understand. However, the concept of version control is incredibly powerful—anyone who utilizes it has a huge advantage in productivity. Perhaps O'Reilly would be better off providing a more simplified system (perhaps even a simple GUI on top of git, offering a small subset of functionality), but I can see why they insist on a VCS-based workflow.
If only they would have brought BBM to iOS, Android and the rest of the platforms...
>who by-and-large

I didn't say that all were, I said most are. You're agreeing with me. If you're going to be pedantic make sure you're actually attacking what I said and not a strawman you set up.

A small minority of obese people have a glandular problem. Some are from childhood obesity and/or have a hormonal imbalance that affects metabolism. My sympathies go to those people; but most fat people are fat because they have poor diets and live sedentary lifestyles and so many of them pull the gland/hormone/not-my-fault card that the legitimate cases are ignored. You can blame lazy fat people for the perceived "delegitimization" of those (legitimate) excuses.

Think of it as 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. The more people who claim it is outside of their control, who are lying, when someone finally makes the claim and it is true - they are ignored - because of the liars.
Love Lombardi. I have the last paragraph of your quote here written down and stuffed in my wallet, for at least 10 years now.
Oh dear. A Kevin Warwick "story". This guy is a media whore who has managed to create a profile with outlandish pseudo-scientific garbage popular with low brow newspapers. I recollect first coming across him when he excitedly reported that he had left the human race in order to become a cyborg - the mundane reality involved the implantation of a rfid chip in his arm... Another one of his high profile press stories - appealing to the same type of publication - contained his prediction that virtual drugs (shared over the internet) would imminently become a epidemic - displacing heroin and crack. This was about 10 years ago.
Currently, a lot of states are considering banning sales of ivory. If you want to get involved, please consider contacting your representatives and voicing your support for these bans.

Over at /r/babyelephantgifs, we made a post which should explain everything that you need to know and which also includes a template that you can use when contacting your representatives

https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/comments/338f7t/co...

The situation is dire. At the current rate of poaching, elephants will be extinct in the next 10-15 years. Even though China is currently the biggest consumer of illegal ivory, the US is in second place.

You guys should also consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights the poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.

There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of whom are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular animal and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little girl [5][6] who was rescued[7] just the other day. This sponsorship is a pretty great gift.

[0] http://www.iapf.org/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...

[6] https://instagram.com/p/3tgs8CgUJd/

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHRosmdsoW0
A huge congratulations to OP! 7 years ago, I got fired (I should have quit, but didn't have the guts). I had enough money to not have to worry for at least a couple of years, and I couldn't find it in my being to work for anyone – not even freelance.

For me, the first couple of weeks was just reminding myself that I still existed – that my "flesh sack" was still there, and would still be there despite the fact that I didn't have a job. Of course, all of the questions about "what will [I] do next?" didn't help this existential crisis.

I gradually got over it. My main metric for my days was reconnecting with the sense of "flow." For enjoying what I was doing in the moment. Thankfully, for me, I could still find that in something that resembled work.

I knew there was something in my brain that I had to discover, so after the first year, I fled SV, away from all of the noise. Two more years of experimentation later (finally supported by some freelance income), I scored a book deal on a topic that was a perfect amalgamation of my curiosities and interest.

I hope you find a similar sense of satisfaction! Just find the joy in what you're doing, and don't let others' expectations create worry for you.
Urgh --- the page waits until you're about 1/3 of the way down and then spams a full-screen ad at you. Sleazy as hell.

Anyone know if AdBlock is going to be able to block these?
> If the measure of success for a JavaScript framework is popularity, Google Closure has failed miserably. It's old, unsexy, and has missed its turn on the hype train. Google spends no effort on PR for the library, and seems content with it quietly powering the majority of its flagship applications. And given that, the lack of hype has mattered very little to us, as it's been a very good solution to our problems over the past five years.

>

> That's not to say that adoption doesn't matter. The absence of a rich community around Google Closure has been disappointing. Only a single book on Google Closure has been published, and the surrounding tools have been slow to evolve. Contrast this with Angular, which has achieved off-the-charts hype and has developed a massive community despite minimal usage in production Google applications. Many books and countless blog posts have been authored explaining various patterns and concepts, making it much easier to get started.

And that is the cost of operating in a secretive, closed fashion as Google does.
I think the expectation that you'll like it on the first try is low. Maybe they're hoping you'll get used to it. :)
How to Sell More with Less Selling
I learned on Silicon Valley that you don't want any revenue anyways, because people will just expect insane revenue growth once you have any revenue. I didn't know if I was supposed to laugh or if someone just had spoken some truth everyone in the valley is too correct to actually say.
Enterprise and business users were increasingly getting used to and demanding iPhones and iPhone-like devices. Apple and Android phones changed the way people used phones and Blackberries went from being the "how cool is it that my work got me this awesome phone that lets me do so much" device to the "ugh, my workplace still forces me to use this crappy device with a tiny screen and a funky physical keyboard" device.

Government/military users of course have long been accustomed to using whatever device wins the RFP, but even there the change in how people use mobile computing devices had to be felt.
I like that the advertisement for the paper-mache elephant points out that "this is a better thing than it appears to be"!
What’s hot in robotics? Four trends to watch
The trick is to keep repeating the exercises for at least a few weeks after you have finished the course.

I can guarantee you that you didn't forget everything. If you completed the Spanish course, your brain has been rewired for Spanish...
Understanding Anti-Virus Heuristics Technology [pdf]
That works both ways. zxcvvcxz just denounced someone for suggesting medication. And it sounds like you're looking down your nose at the idea, too.

Both medications, and lifestyle changes could help. It depends on the situation and the person.
Pachyderm (YC W15) Raises $2M to Power Big Data Processing for the Docker Era
How to find huge amount of emails on Twitter?
Amoral != immoral. Amorality simply is the disconnection from morals, while immorality is doing something you know to be wrong. The people in charge would still be held by their own moral beliefs, but we should not be chastizing or congratulating companies for their moral contributions because, as an entity, their decisions should not be based on morals, but on profit.
For vocabulary, http://memrise.com and http://quizlet.com are good. Memrise's flash cards (or "mems" as they call them) are quite good.
Sounds like they got a bad batch of steel or something. Corrosion doesn't cause steel to become brittle. It weakens it, yes, but it does so by reducing the cross-section. Corrosion doesn't materially alter the bulk properties of the metal, only the amount of metal in the bulk.

I get that there's corruption and shortcuts getting taken everywhere on big projects like this. But it's still surprising that better QA/QC isn't done. There's going to be a lot of finger pointing on whose fault this is.
This "paper" (sorry, it's not a paper, ESR) is wrong- the climate models have actually done a fairly good job.

[0] http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-global-warming-projecti...

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/06/noaa-t...

[2] www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/21/realistic-climate-models-accurately-predicted-global-warming

[3] http://skepticalscience.com/curry-mcintyre-resist-ipcc-model...

[4] http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm
Not mentioned in the article is IMHO the most important thing they are currently working on: Language testing/validation/badging. In the context of the "end of college" era, this work in microcredentialing may be the most valuable thing they are doing. Not teaching language, but validating as a trusted 3rd party what an individual knows.
Define 'hysteria.'

I believe humanity will survive, but at a significant cost to lifestyle (at least from the point of view of this American). I'll miss the places that are beaches right now being beaches, and I'm not looking forward to the economic disruption as food sources change.

We're an advanced enough society that in a nightmare scenario, we could pretty much weather several generations in a cave under a tightly-controlled resource regiment. But not seven billion of us, and I don't look forward to the culling that would happen as a result of massive climate upheaval.
The technical points mixed with the politics is a little boring. I'm really over people trying to make a moral issue out of iOS. You totally have the freedom to ignore platforms that don't work the way you want.

I also agree you have the freedom to complain about things over and over endlessly but yawn
Another approach would be to use the Backup API's provided by Google/Apple.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html
Using wall as the display makes way more sense to me: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-envisions-pc-as-projector-wit...