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The final act of HTML5 delusion - it becomes "ready" because we say it's "ready". It's just someone forgot to ask Flash (game) developers' opinion. Not that it matters, right?
The throw away comment on how ad networks are a cesspit at the end of that article really spoke to me - if it weren't for the abundance of "Recommended Stories" and "From elsewhere on the web" crap selling weight loss pills and click bait I'd be far less inclined to run with an ad blocker.

The fact that these ads disguise themselves as content that the site owner is recommending is particularly insidious, since it will likely encourage people to click through thinking that they can trust the content.
Printing money does not create value - by the same amount the money is printed, all previously existing money of that currency is being devaluated. This is of course a convenient way of getting rid of old debts, but not possible if you are in a currency union. Furthermore, you still have to pay back foreign debts, and there is a little chance that they accept your printed money.
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I'm currently learning Clojure by reading the Clojure Programming book. Its really been a struggle. You're right about the impatience part. I think everyone goes through it at one point or another.

Especially with learning a Lisp language, you can be really frustrated by having to read so much before you can actually create something.

But slowly and surely I'm learning. I just re-read the chapter(s) I don't understand over and over again.

So my advice is don't try to skim over a whole book. Try reading as slow as possible, and if you don't understand something, take a break and then get back to that same shit once more. And of course, write some code as soon as possible.
Both are desperately waiting for the messiah battery to happen.

People like the original author seem to face immense difficulty at wrapping their head around the fact that battery technology does not follow Moore's Law (while even chips have mostly stopped to do so). State of the art battery technology has not improved much this side of the millennium, it has just seen a really big price drop from specialist niche technology to commodity. This makes the battery of a Tesla S a lot more affordable today than it would have been back when Musk started the project (and when he correctly predicted a price drop, and just a price drop, instead of waiting for the miracle battery to happen), but the range would not have been much worse if you built a Tesla around a battery made of crazy expensive y2k cells.
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Actually Greece has a printing press for Euros (apparently you can tell which euro notes are printed in Greece by the serial number). I have been half expecting Greece to solve all its problems by just printing.
> As someone outside the US, this trade agreement seems like the US trying to impose its poisonous, backwards copyright and intellectual rights laws on the rest of the Western English speaking countries.

That's precisely what it is, yes.
I have a DK2 and am constantly frustrated with my audio headphone/DK2 headset setup. I am actually surprised that Oculus did not address the audio issue sooner. Sound is such an important factor in visualization. The consumer version (CV1) is supposedly not out for another 6-8 months?
Please list all wars initiated by Iran during the last 50 years. As that will probably not take too long, maybe you can also tell us with which neighbours Iran has been at war during the last 50 years.
The first version they bought and re-branded. The second version was developed in house using the purchased technologies. It's sad the stuff developed in house seems to be worse.
I just love iTerm2, but I feel it's slow and unresponsive at times (Garbage Collection?) compared to Apple's Terminal. I still keep using iTerm2 because of its features. If there is any way I can profile these slowness and submit a bug report to have it fixed, please let me know!
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Wow, today I learned tuition is free in Scotland. How's the average income?
In the EU poorer states get more funding too. One line explanations for a fictive problem are most likely wrong.
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Right, it is automated. we are the machine that automates it.
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You missed that a good sounding rocket would have shown temperatures drop as you increase in altitude.
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Rosetta/Philae was a European achievement paid by the EU public, yet that barely gets mentioned. It's really a shame that the endless churn of downbeat economic news has overshadowed everything good that European countries are able to do together...

Maybe Europe would benefit from having a bit more American-style "rah-rah" patriotism around the good old "12 stars on deep blue" EU flag.

Nowadays it seems that we European citizens are constantly looking for reasons to argue rather than reasons to stick together, and that's a huge change from the positive European atmosphere of the '90s.
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Your argument doesn't hold. I make a few road trips a year. Only a weekly basis I make at least 20 trips varying in the range of 5-40 miles. That's the pay off for an electric car. If I can save money on gas, and maintainance cost. I'll gladly rent an old-fashioned gasoline car for those 3-5 200+ miles road trips I make in a year.
Does this mean that Democratic countries that are part of the Euro are rendered unable to listen to the wishes of their citizens and must instead act as despots on behalf of Germany?

If so, I don't see this ending well.
To be fair the iPhone was a ridiculously expensive proposition when first introduced - something like 3x the normal cost for top-of-the-range phones at the time.
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>Giving Mullahs access to create nuclear weapons. Taking their word for it that they won't.

The whole point of the deal is to NOT LET THEM create nuclear weapons. No one is taking anyone's word, there is a verification regime that will be imposed and executed by the IAEA, which is as good as any entity that exists today at detecting illicit nuclear activity.

>Just yesterday their Iranian proxies in Baghdad were burning American and Israeli flags. Vowing to destroy The Great Satan(s), why do we downplay that?

No one is downplaying that. Iran is an adversary of the US and adversaries do nasty things to each other. Diplomacy is how you get your adversaries to be a little less adversarial, and stop doing those nasty things.

>I simply just loooooove how (western) leftists are so accepting of this.

Why do you assume it's only "leftists" that are in favor?

>But killing apostates, hanging "sodomites", that's all good.

Kissinger, hardly a leftist, said "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests." Yeah some elements of Iran are nasty but we don't have to be besties. We want things from them, they want things from us, neither can wish the other into non-existence, so we hold or nose and act like grownups.
Are Europeans so hypersensitive that the we should ban celebrations at NASA?
Good riddance. Hopefully, they not only deactivate it but remove Flash and Java altogether. These two have been nothing but constant security and performance issues. And without Flash, Firefox can finally work on GTK3.
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Not joking at all.

By multiple pedal I'm talking about accelerator and brake, not accelerator brake and clutch.

The i3 has single pedal operation in city mode. This means it uses regen braking to intelligently slow the car down if you lift your foot off. Brake pedal is for emergency or highway stops only.

It's one of those things that, once you get used to, feel a lot more natural.
Resubmitted following the HN discussion on the SoloShot -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878275

and in accordance with the discussion the other day that made it clear reposts were OK if the original post didn't generate discussion -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254
Just curious, is there any reason why you may be considered an interesting target to the NSA and friends?
Can someone express pride in their country without being jingoistic? I think so. Jingoism usually connotes aggressive foreign policy, militarism, and extreme bias on top of pride in nation.

I don't see the bias here--New Horizons is legitimately a project to be proud of.

On the other hand, it's arguably pretty aggressive to accelerate a machine to over 13 km/s and send it inside the orbit of a planet's closest satellite.

On the gripping hand, Pluto's government hasn't complained, so why should you?
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majority of young people are happy! to tell you the troth sanctions were a real pain for us, imagine every time i use internet and i forget to connect VPN i get the "Unavailable in your country message" while visiting Unity or Google Code websites.
but on the other hand there are some who are not that happy they think with this agreement we have lost decades of effort toward peacefull nuclear energy.

there is one thing for sure nobody in iran wants a nuclear weapon.
Another point that hasn't been raised yet: Flash is a much smaller software than a browser, how come it has more bugs ? It certainly speaks for it's internal code quality.
Egoistical showman. Not able to listen. Not able to compromise. Using inapropriate language (waterboarding, terrorist - insulting people who endure real waterboarding and/or are hurt by terrorist). Doesn't stop shooting at Schäuble (Germany), but in truth he was opposed by 19 European countries. External pressure is needed.

Stoneage lefties like to discuss, well, preach, all day long while spending other (EU) citizen's money. Greece will be saved when he and the anarcho-communist-syndicalist grufties start to modernize greece, e.g. do something again the blatant corruption, burocratie and tax evasion instead of hindering startups, business and innovative people. Imho.
Just calm down, sit your butt down and read (pertinent to a book). I can understand a million other ideas bouncing up and down constantly but then to make other million ideas happen, you've got to do this.

Why?

Well, logically, if you've started learning something I'm guessing its because you want to do something with it? So have some patience.
Yeah. The lack of complimentary water at restaurants is probably my biggest complaint about traveling in Europe. When I sit down, I want a big damn glass of water immediately. This is the standard in the US, and I really miss it in Europe. Like you said, even ordering water is a trial when you don't speak the language. Learning "water" isn't hard, but remembering between it and "tap water" is hard, and the waiter has a decent excuse for failing to get your order right. And they usually treat you like cheap scum for failing to order an expensive drink. Ugh.
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I would like to see the term sheet for this. My guess is that these investors are going to be extracting returns from revenue as it comes in. Here's why...

UIGEA, [1] the legislation that was used to take down the online poker sites, contained an exemption for fantasy sports. However, that exemption is only valid if the business is operating in compliance with individual state laws. There is an increasing sentiment that DFS is sports gambling under a number of state laws, and many people are just waiting to find out which state will prosecute first. At the time the UIGEA exemption was created, legislators hadn't even contemplated the concept of DFS, and the very legislators that wrote the exemption have expressed concern over it.

Since investors with this kind of money have done their due diligence, my guess is that they just want to ride the revenue train until the inevitable state-by-state crackdown occurs. It's no coincidence that this investment is occurring just before football season, which is their biggest revenue driver by orders of magnitude.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_E...
China's deals are a heck of a lot sweeter than the TPP though.
It sounds like you do not provide enough apparent value and hence people do not pay!

I am not talking about there "real" value you provide but what value you are able to communicate to those who actually lands on your site.

My advice would be to talk to customers, either those who have signed up or alternatively you could go out in the real world, find some target customers and talk to them.

This could be in a coffee shop (ask permission from the manager) where you could offer to pay for the persons coffee, then let them use the software and get them talking about what they see, their experience and thoughts - take notes of everything and most importantly shut the f*ck up, do not explain nor complain!

Take what you learned and use in your copy writing and development, then go back out again and repeat until you either has proven that people do not get value from what you are building or that they do!
It has a lot to do with the wide choice you have.
A lot of research has covered this topic. Look up "The Paradox of Choice".
Almost all of it was used for dept payments I believe.

Alas, this sort of thing (protect the interests of capital) is pretty normal. In the US, bankers got a bailout and homeowners lost their homes for example.
Anecdote here - I know people who used to be able to afford to go to the doctor, but now they are paying so much in premiums that they can't afford to pay the deductible (also significantly increased), so they don't go to the doctor anymore.
I have a problem with doing the exercises, either in a textbook, or for an online course. I always expect to have the right answer straight away (whether a quiz or a coding problem), and get really frustrated if I don't. I guess 16 years of school conditions you to think like that. I also get a lot of anxiety when learning new stuff, wondering "what if I just can't understand this subject matter, period".
I'd guess most of the posters here hate jingoism. I'd also venture to say that most of us find the typical USA chant really boorish.

But if this (exploring space) is the result of jingoism? Give us more of it. Seems like a really minor thing to get worked up about.
When the public (read: the political body) needs to be convinced that this kind of exploration and research is worth the money, then a little nationalism is bound to creep in.

It's brown-nosing, at worst.
I caught the crypto bug after messing around with http://cryptopals.com/ Now this. I should just kiss my free time away now....
So Hillary couldn't or wouldn't have done the same thing? Personally, I think it would have sailed through much more easily had she been in office.
Agreed. But ... California makes that tough. Oregon & Washington are more in line with the rest of the country. Something to check is whether your state restricts carrying when a state of emergency has been declared.
That's like saying “The ‘Web’ can't display images, the ‘Web’ needs plug-ins to do so. Plug-ins like libjpeg or giflib”.

Right now, you can put a <video> or <audio> tag on a page and it will work in something like 95% of the browsers in use. That's already better than Flash and going up as IE8 users upgrade to newer versions of IE or install Chrome/Flash.

Sure, you can't rely on users not recompiling their browser to disable it but you also can't rely on 100% support for anything on the web – users disable image loading, plugins, stylesheets or JavaScript, install incredibly overzealous ad-blockers, use ISPs which tamper with page contents, etc.
These kind of missions need public support top hopefully maintain funding, and a little patriotism could help that along. If flag waving helps planetry science then I am happy to play along.
Thanks. I'll definitely be reading those.

Aaronson's talk on Computational Complexity and the Anthropic Principle [1] also looks interesting.

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/anthropic.html
>> Are you telling me that those same lawyers don't have iPhones

SUDDENLY, you know nothing about China and other developing & 3rd world countries.
i thought it would be worth more. congrats markus. not that markus needs any more money than that. i thought he would enjoy being a billionare though.
> Because motorcycles are the number one users of road?

Traction issues happen on all wheeled vehicles, motorcycles are just extremely sensitive to them. A few years back I got rear-ended (at low speed) because of pretty much the issue mentioned: fully painted crosswalk in wet conditions, the car behind just slipped on it and couldn't stop, ended up in the trunk.
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This is also one of those times when calling your Senator can work. The ones voting for it are kind of hoping that nobody notices. A lot of angry phone calls will convince them otherwise and could help give them cold feet.

It helps that there's not really a cohesive voting bloc in favor of the trade negotiations. It's just about the billionaires.
Partly because we once overthrew their democratically-elected prime minister out of fear he would align with the USSR. In our defense, China had just become communist and Britain was convincing us this would happen because their PM was saying he would nationalize the Anglo-Iranian oil company (now known as BP). Have a CrashCourse video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4Ku6l7OEI
I think the "just can't" part can be mitigated by remembering your past successes. I don't think there was a time where I could never understand something (if I really tried) no matter how hard I tried. Might take a long time, but, eventually at least kinda got it. Now, understand some things in depth... definitely not, but get familiar, sure.
Oh, I forgot

Get into a mastermind group (or two)
Listen to "startup for the rest of up" podcast
Listen to "the startup chat"
Attend MicroConf Europe
Read books like "the lean startup", traction, smartcuts, the war of art, the dip, etc...
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And since when you have to please everybody ? Flash developers are a minority, and they have no power to influence the market.

The sooner Adobe abandons the dead horse, the better for all of us. Kevin has gone away for years now, and Adobe's force is not based on Flash anymore (disclaimer: I own Adobe stock)
Still not understanding me. Currently the union might bargain for employment benefits. This is antiquated and treats all employees as though they want the same things, which cannot be true. Why would you collectively bargain for things that each person values differently?

So it's better to agree to a rate of gross pay, and get paid as a contractor. The individual can then choose what benefits to award themselves, whether it is a higher level of healthcare or retirement payments, or just take the maximum up front income and pay taxes accordingly.

From an employers point of view, a whole piece of headache goes away if the people you pay sorts out their own benefits packages.

The Orignal article is about trying to reclassify contractors as employees, and do so in the name of 'benefits' as though contractors can't get the benefits themselves. Well, that's simply not true.

Whether you organise for higher pay is another thing, and you can form a union to do that, or not.
No man. The OP has it dead right: find a small project, write it in your new language, struggle a bit but get it finished. Then go back and see where you could be more idiomatic and improve those parts. Or do another small project but with more knowledge behind you this time around. This is the philosophy behind for example, SICP: "you don't learn Scheme, you use it."
That's not an at all implausible distance for cars that are used all the time - compare it to a taxi or a delivery vehicle, not a personal car.
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great job on the README
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That is simply not true, there are some limitations though these are being removed in newer browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard
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Progress is made by consistently working at a thing every day. If I were you, I would choose one topic (for example, a specific programming book) and keep track of what that one thing is that you make progress on every day. Have a good reason for choosing that book so that you can be motivated; remember why you started that book or whatever it is. If you try to learn other things besides that the rest of the day, and those things change with your mood, that's fine. Just have that one topic you're learning be something that you don't change, or at least change consciously when it's the right time (finished book, or your reason for starting it is no longer true). Spend at least 1 minute every day on that. (I mention only 1 minute because it builds the habit, and you'll usually end up doing more. But if you don't do at least 1 minute, you could go years without doing it, or not do it at all.) You might want to make that 1 thing something you do first thing in the morning, if you're a morning person. There is less chance that something will disrupt your routine that way.

I should start following this advice myself.
WRT the first quote the road business in the USA is extremely corrupt along the lines of cellphone battery life always being advertised as about 3 times reality, etc, so it would be assumed the claims are outright false and the maint cost will be higher and only last 1/3 the lifetime of asphalt. Its an interesting cultural problem that the claims might actually be true in that that country!

WRT the second quote, that doesn't answer the question. If you can't mix the heavy stuff from the distillation column with gravel and pave roads with it, you'll have to ... crickets ... Bonfire it? Dump it in the ocean? Pour it in a pit and leave the cleanup to someone else? Ship it far away for someone else to use it as asphalt?

Damaged roads are very expensive ecologically. Saving the planet $5 on pavement is a good way to charge the planet $1000s in tie rods and suspension components, but out of sight, out of mind...
How would you start learning a technology would playing with it? I couldn't imagine sitting down and reading huge amounts before trying anything - I want hands on experience as soon as possible.
> clock precision (you can't measure time fast enough to actually measure position using bluetooth)

Interesting, why is that and how fast would that be, then?

Also what's different about triangulating via WiFi APs signals, that bluetooth doesn't work?
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Sounds like you're broken. I was once too. Couldn't focus on anything. This is a good cure from experience:

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/learning-how-learn/c...
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This is a very good tip (for security) and I don't see it used anywhere yet. Should be enforced.
Maybe I'm not getting something quite right, but why is there a "UX" in the title?
This gets back to the thing where the author (probably necessarily) has to write for a wide audience.

Someone who enjoyed math in various school classes will probably understand the basics of functional programming faster than someone who only worked their way through it. So one of them might be just as angry as you are at the bad advice in the front matter of the book.
Sob, no non-US support! I was just getting excited, but then I realised that there was no combobox for choosing 'United Kingdom' anywhere.
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Probably. Styx is the other one.