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The one objective measure of success in art is mastery of technique, which is something the kind of dedication and practice he has done can produced. A mature artist of any kind should be able to deliberately set out to create a particular effect or experience for their audience, and create a work that has that effect or produces that experience.

This is a reasonable goal for artists to pursue, because it's one that only really depends on them, and they are unlikely to be successful by any other measure without it.
> There are lots of words with essentially no semantic content; they belong to various parts of speech just the same

I said "the" is solely a cohesive device, independent of the semantics and in the domain of thematics, so "a" and "the" are used orthogonally. I also said if "part of speech" is defined as being in the grammatical structure of languages, then "the" doesn't have a part of speech -- I was reinforcing the first point I made. All your arguments have only made some point which is tangential to what you've replied to. Linguists don't use the term "part of speech" anymore anyway, they instead define "word class".

As for "the premarital sex" and "the Hindoo", you're creating an implied prior context when you use "the" instead of a regular form such as "all premarital sex" and "Hindoos". The "the" overlays onto the "all", "-s", or "a" to change the grammatical structure.
To put it simply, I've come to the conclusion that censorship is an often required tool in creating internet communities where everyone can feel welcome and safe.

I'm not sure how that would work in a distributed system.

The solutions has been implemented at least twice, first with Newsgroups kill files and now with Twitter's block lists.

Users would publish a feed with messages and user that they think should be blocked, and others could subscribe to those feeds. To diminish moderator abuse, you could tell your client to only block messages/users which have been blocked by two or more of people.
Wind's always flowing somewhere. The sun shines pretty reliably. And a huge percentage of our electricity consumption could quite easily be time shifted.
I forgot they turned it into its own spin off product. I've always liked the IntelliJ stuff having suffered through a few years of Eclipse.
That's what I've seen from personal experience. Thinking along the lines of: Birth control's for sluts, and I'm not like that, so I don't need that, this is special, etc.
Supporting/defending bombs because they are better than older bombs? Really?

Not supporting/definding bombs: the right way.
Lauren Weinstein looks at UI design, and misdesign, and the human cost.

Themes: the pervasiveness of bad design (I've been saying for a while: Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem), the frustration across all levels of user expertise, including engineers, the isolating effects for those without immediate access to local technical support from caregivers, and the sheer thoughtlessness behind many of the undrelying problesm.

Weinstein also makes a highly laudable modest proposal that really should be taken to heart by HN's WebDev community:

I would like to see major Web services commit themselves to the proposition of providing optional and easily enabled "basic interfaces" to their main services, alongside the existing "primary" interfaces.

Of the rest, some highlights:

A couple of months ago, in Seeking Anecdotes Regarding "Older" Persons' Use of Web Services, I asked for stories and comments regarding experiences that older users have had with modern Web systems, with an emphasis on possible problems and frustrations....

It was immediately obvious that many of these respondents were long frustrated by these issues, and viewed the survey as finally an opportunity to get these concerns off their chests. Much of what they described was heartbreaking...

While some of the users had indeed never had much computer experience, a vast number of responses involved highly skilled, technologically-savvy individuals -- often engineers themselves -- who had helped build the information age but now felt themselves being left behind by Web designers who simply don't seem to care about them at all....

The frustration of caregivers in these contexts was palpable.

They'd teach an older user how to use a key service like Web-based mail to communicate with their loved ones, only to discover that a sudden UI change caused them to give up in frustration and not want to try again....
Was he guilty of violating the law with intent to unfairly profit from stolen intellectual property? No.

And in this case, it was not so much the default position as the actual position.
I recommend you take a look at Rob Walling's blog: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/

He also runs the Microprenuer Academy that focuses on helping and promoting one-person startups. His key advice: focus on a niche industry or audience.

For example, a few years ago I had this great idea of building a task management app. I quickly discovered there were dozens of them, Asana, Producteev, Flow, Trello, etc. Using his advice, I could have focused developing a task app for a particular industry, say industrial engineers, architects, investment advisors, etc. His point being that specific industries have very specific needs, and one-size-fit-all, general purpose apps rarely targets those needs.

Bottom line, think about what kinds of app you'd enjoy building, social media, news, productivity app, game, whatever, then cross breed it with some underserved market.
Example: LinkedIn + Oil and Gas industry = oilpro.com
HN moderation is design in a way that forces very slow growth, which controls the content of new posters/posts.

You can't get to an X-million posting community with that style.

FWIW, Slashdot comments sit between HN and Reddit.

Also, HN intentionally avoids most controversial kinds of top-level post content that Reddit explicitly encourages in subreddits.
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https://youtu.be/mL9AFkJJAq0?t=27m30s if you want to see the actual demo...
Perhaps this is now old, but everytime Vice is brought up all I can think of is this piece with David Carr from Page One (2011) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmkec_4Rfo
It's not so much about preparing - it's about what you root/vote/lobby for. War should never be on the supporters agenda.
Hey! Thanks for checking it out. the type animation is custom built. all other animations are a combination of jquery and css.
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I'm 5 years into the programming business and my own projects are just starting to get into a usable state in a reasonable amount of time. Finishing things feels a bit further away still.

Thanks for the article.
I haven't read it, but didn't Lewis defend that there is one right set of axioms to choose, the one which is "objectively good"?
It's interesting that Twain grew to loathe Kipling due to the latter's efforts to get the US to "take up the white man's burden" and assume Britain's imperial ambitions as it was forced to give up its possessions. Hitchens has a great bit about it in Blood, Class, and Empire.
Great point, and you're right - personally negotiating with hotels is hard to scale. Our customers really like that we do this for them so they don't have to, and we're streamlining this to make it faster and easier on both ends. We're being really careful with which steps we "automate", since group hotel bookings is a very people-centric industry.
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Fair enough, but then it's only a smell in languages lacking in those tools. In my real world, I can debug it just fine.
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Does this imply that It wouldn't possible anymore to use Firefox to browse without Javascript?
Interesting but also prone to errors. Subtopic one (in topic one) will be different as Subtopic one (in topic two) in most real cases, probably. A clear example is scientific literature where each chapter could have a 'results' section, maybe with different subsection names.

The reverse situation can be also a problem. 'Subtopic one', 'subtopic one' and 'subtopic One' for example, are taken as three different nodes. This can either be good or bad.

Other problem is that your code generates a bad graph when you have a " in the infile. Try it with: Topic "Two"
Can you grin like an idiot and sound super-excited about high tech dog shit?
I love this. I'm a hobby artist myself (though I've never wanted to make a career out of it). It's great to know that people can still succeed in a career that is common prefixed with "starving." I also love to see the artistic progression of a youth to a professional. It's a fascinating visual journey.

A great takeaway is how he offered free prints during his Illuxcon convention. I rarely see artists (even amateurs) doing this at conventions. I imagine this accelerated his success as his free prints were probably hanging on the wall in various art directors' offices.
D'oh. Good note. Thanks.
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+1 for that comment

I have the highest respect for the history of the United States and where they came from. Perhaps the founding fathers were not the first to think thoughts of freedom, but they were among the forerunners in implementing a system that was actually based on the idea of freedom.

But I also very much agree that there is an increasing difference between freedom in theory and in practice in the States - something that I hope its citizens will manage to sort out sooner rather than later.

As Jefferson said: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
No, not really. Lisp and other functional languages predate the articulation of OOP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#History

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

So functional programming isn't a reaction to OOP.

It's also the case that Python is not particularly OOP (it does seem to me that lots of people that came to it from Java use it that way).
When I used Firefox 39.0 to download the update on Windows, I got the previous version, 0.3.0. I had to use Internet Explorer 11 to get the latest version, 0.5.0. (I didn't try Chrome.)
I don't think I fully agree with this. CTM is intended for at least sophomore CS students. SICP was intended for a more general engineering audience. That explains some of the links with EE SICP tries to show, whereas CTM concentrates on programming paradigms---some quite exotic.
It's crazy to me how poorly this whole recent "revolt" was handled. The only thing of value to Reddit Inc is the community, so you think they would be more proactive about everything, that they would be hiring more community managers rather than firing key ones. Is this their Digg moment? Probably not, but how many more fuckups like this can they make before the users leave for good?

I've cut Pao a lot of slack in the past, but this makes her look like she has no idea what she's doing. No communication for days? Speaking to outside reporters before speaking to her community? It makes no sense to me.
>For me to start a blog and say unique things about marketing that haven't been said before and then get that noticed... I consider myself to be smart, but I don't know if I'm on that level.

As you know, marketing is all about the packaging, and how you sell the sizzle, not the steak. So even if you think it's all been said before, it doesn't have to stop you from saying it in your own way, with your own unique insights, distribution methods, etc.
I took 61A in python and loved it too. I do a lot of personal projects in django/flask now too, something I probably wouldn't really have thought of before.
That's a good question. I don't know the answer, but I'm curious as well. If it is an option, might be a good interim solution, perhaps not for the main UI (where performance is one of the main goals) but it could be useful to help the plugin ecosystem transition over.
Looks like "your house is big" doesn't contract because the voiced "is" becomes unvoiced "-s" when contracting, and two unvoiced "s" sounds don't join together.
I thought this was silly at first. Looking deeper, I realized that with Airbnb etc, group bookings will likely become more and more important for the traditional hotel industry, as it is something that most Airbnb hosts can't offer.
I'm male but your second assumption is wrong (and I don't see any logic to make that assumption). Any person who saying "I love you" (NOT as child/mother/father/etc) simultaneously to more than 1 person is a betrayer in my logic.
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Look, here's the relevant sense of guilt (that is, the sense unrelated to the legal system) from Merriam-Webster:

> a bad feeling caused by knowing or thinking that you have done something bad or wrong

Here it is from Cambridge:

> Guilt is also a feeling of anxiety or unhappiness that you have done something immoral or wrong, such as causing harm to another person: She was tormented by feelings of guilt after putting her mother in a nursing home.

There is no requirement that things could have gone differently, or that if they could have gone differently a different outcome would have been better.

Your definition is not compatible with this, or even related to this. You've stated fairly clearly that you don't believe guilt exists. That's odd, but defensible. (Though trust me, you're wrong.) Pretending it means something other than what everyone but you thinks it means isn't defensible.

> Feel free to propose an absolute version of right and wrong, to me it seems like an impossible task

I didn't say there was an absolute definition of right and wrong. I said there are people who conceive of the world this way, and that's true; they are quite numerous. By weakening to just the idea that certain actions in a definite fixed context could be correctly labeled "right" or "wrong", you pick up many, many more believers, practically the entire world.
Well they're either going to have people writing platform specific code, or people writing code to emulate and keep current with platform specific features.
> Google frequently puts their toes in the water and then decides it's too cold to swim.

But only after a ton of people have started to use it, and weren't warned that Google was "toe-ing the water": health, reader, code(!), I'm certain there are others ...
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I don't know. Carpooling could significantly hurt tax revenues in Israel. But of course they can tax through the app.
Firefox already uses a ton of JavaScript internally. The setting for web content has nothing to do with the internals of the browser.
Could someone explain the results of this, rather than the code and the theory?
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Outstanding library. I like this version of material more than the other with polimer that's completeley flat.

There are some issues with scrolling in general and with scrolling with tooltips open on ios, but will follow and see if they eventually get around those.
Ask HN: I Want to Build a Simple API-Backed iOS App - React Native or Swift?
I'm a web developer by day with essentially zero mobile development experience. I am familiar with React but haven't used it in any meaningful projects. I have no experience with Swift or even x-code for that matter. I'm looking to build a simple api-backed app and I'm fine with it being only on iOS (not looking to debate that either).

I've stumbled on this site that looks like a good place to start learning Swift: http://www.hackingwithswift.com/

As for React-Native, I figured I could just dive into their tutorial and then start hacking.

The app I want to build should be pretty basic, no crazy animations or heavy asset rendering or anything. Also doesn't need any real-time support or push notifications or anything.

What path do you guys recommend I take? I feel like diving into Swift could be good just for learning a new language for myself. React Native just seems fun to build with. I'm torn at this point, help.
Is it a given that responding to the community is the proper role for a CEO? I can envision a configuration of reddit corporate structure where there is a responsive, deeply involved, and powerful "head of community" position who would respond to the community in these situations, while the CEO does more traditional CEO stuff like talking to investors and press (among other things). The problem seems to me to be that they don't appear to have that "head of community" position. Indeed, it seems that /u/chooter had become that person de facto, perhaps without the company's leadership realizing it, and seemingly without the necessary internal sway.
And please don't replace words "falling in love" with "being attracted" - it's dirty way of arguing.
Meego dying killed Fennec. It would have gotten further development if it had had users that warranted so.
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Celebrity AMAs are the biggest way Reddit gets media exposure. I would think investing in making them run smoothly would be a high priority for Reddit.
What does he have to do to convince you?
The best shape ever? Like before western civilization came when it was the grand prairie?

Also, there are issues with runoff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/us/conflict-over-soil-and-...

There's also a concern about water management. Natural ecosystems tend to get the most out of their water usage. I seem to recall that the midwest water aquifers are a limited resource.

That aside, I can buy that soil is improving. I also agree that we can make it work. I do applaud regenerative efforts in Iowa.

However, I'm looking at a global scale, where desertification, pollution, runoff, lowering productivity, etc. are big problems. As an analogy, many climate change deniers will claim that it's still winter in their local area, but that perception is not fully representative of what is happening on a global scale.

Re: the industrial paradigm on improving local soil systems; is importing nutrition on a massive scale, robbing that nutrition from other ecosystems, a responsible thing to do in a global context? I'm realistic in the sense that some importation may be necessary, in fact nature moves nutrients via animals, wind, etc. However, nature works in a cooperative & systemic way.
In case you're a German speaker, there are some native German Email providers that afaik are pretty good on privacy (our laws are very strict there, and there is what is known as). And as their servers should be in Germany, the NSA will have a slightly more difficult task of sniffing.

Examples are gmx.de and web.de. (Although I'd caution you with the latter - I use their free version and am not impressed with their customer service: nonexistent. Also, they send you their own advertising. I don't know if their paid tier is any better, I haven't tried it.)
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Seems like an expedient way to avoid appeals on the basis that the wrong juror was excused.
Whoa, that's awesome!
Look at all the stuff high above the north pole. Almost all Russian.
It looks great in Safari (not that this helps the folks for whom it doesn't look great for)
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> Nobody has the right to deny the kid's independent decision whether to have sex or not.

Unless, of course, their partner is older than they are.
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> it's an example of why companies getting big is bad for consumers.
it's also in general what drives us building new things/companies.
Rigorous implementation of the specs, with well managed css (BEM) to boot. Render me excited!
Exactly, they are merely "pretty open" and can change the rules as they see fit. Like I said, any belief that all speech should be protected on reddit is false.
Then they are just kids with kids.
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I have to think that through. Search pages are tricky as you can't simply go to a certain page. They're identified by tokens, which aren't known a priori - you just get adjacent ones with search results.

A reasonable solution would be ability to set max results and disabling next/prev. All desired results would show up in the search directory (if you can assume that results beyond some point are useless).
At least since 1935 [1, 2] people have been trying to formalize all of mathematics with set theory. I always thought this was fairly interesting, similar to how the real numbers can be modeled in a language using dependent types like Coq.

However, I always found Hoare logic, and its concurrent extension Rely--Guarantee from Jones, to be quite easy to understand. The more interesting part is how to do this automatically for a user. Abstract interpretation is one way to do this, but this necessarily requires mapping some programming language to your mathematical model. However, determining the formal semantics of mature programming languages, even C, is still open research (e.g., see papers on Semantics in PLDI [3] 2015).

TLDR: verification is hard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

[2] Topoi, the categorial analysis of logic. Goldblatt, Robert. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=mat...

[3] http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi2015/pldi2015-papers#pro...
Move out of London. You don't need to be "close to work" a lot of people commute in every day. And, yes, train tickets are insanely expensive but I bet it is still a saving all things taken into account.

$50k is do-able even in South England, I mean you won't be a movie star, but you'll get by on rent and so on until your salary increases. It is only London where that won't cut it.
I disagree and I think you are interpreting "applied mathematics", "physics", and "computer science" overly literally - rather than labels for fields of study.

The point in the article is that programming is no longer just Applied Mathematics, it's also very much a discipline of Engineering as well. Anyone who studies these fields should understand the difference.

You are right, that these terms can apply to deep realms of human thought - but I think they are less useful terms under that definition.
Ask HN? When would YC startup school 2015 applications be available?
We both know they'd be (rightly) yelled at by all of us if they did that.

Waze, fine. By using the app, you agree they might monetize it, or whatever. But pushing ads to stock android is a huge no-no.
Does Varoufakis speak Spanish, or is that itself a translation? Because El Mundo is also a media outlet.
When I told my mum my salary she dropped the phone. It's roughly double what she was earning at the end of her career as a senior subject teacher, and more than what the headteacher at her large school earned.

In don't work in the City, but they also get bonuses (in return for long hours?). They also get 25-28 days holiday, as is standard, unlimited sick leave etc, which should be taken into account when comparing with the States.

http://www.nasuwt.org.uk/consum/groups/public/@salariespensi...