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Agreed wholeheartedly.

There are times when you should read and learn every detail before actually starting a new activity. (e.g. ground school before flying) This is usually when the cost of failure is unacceptably high.

However, this is usually not the case, especially with things like programming, if that's what OP is talking about.

Advice to "just do it" may seem simple, but it is surprisingly effective. When you learn by doing, you setup a feedback loop where you try something, see if it works or not, and if it does not, find out why/where it went wrong and retry it. For most people, this is mentally stimulating and provides the necessary psychological rewards to keep you going. If you get stuck/frustrated, this is when you should take a break and perhaps go back to reading/researching after a while.

Don't worry about whether you're doing it the absolutely correct way, or whether what you've done is worthwhile to others. (What is "absolutely correct" is often subjective, anyways) Focus on the knowledge you gain, and take notes.

For example, I've also been recently learning Golang. I wrote a simple Golang game server (using a SockJS library) to serve as a backend for a simple, multiplayer online game. Looking back, the initial code I wrote was horrible and needs to be refactored; but that in and of itself will be another learning exercise. Did I need to use Golang for this, or is this the best use of Golang? Probably not - I could have written it using Java or Node.js much faster, but wouldn't learned as much.
Universal! = free or total.

If you test positive for AIDS you can after the fact buy health insurance long before you need significant medical care. That implies a defacto basic level of coverage for long term chronic conditions which is by far the largest issue.

PS: As to the 11.9% figure, that does not include large numbers of people with significant access to health care that’s not based on insurance. EX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White_Care_Act 'improve availability of care for low-income, uninsured and under-insured victims of AIDS and their families.'

The VA also provides a lot of free healthcare for people without insurance. Not to mention prisoners getting free healthcare.
Flash usage has been plummeting. I know these charts are questionable, but it looks like it will hit 0 in 3 years. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/client_side...
> New York and California have comparatively high tax rates, enormous housing costs and expensive wages. They seem to be doing just fine. Also see Germany, Austria, Switzerland and all of the Scandinavian countries.

These places all have other things going for them, though.

Why don't you move to a small town in Nebraska and pay all the Federal and State taxes as well as a 20% income tax, 10% property tax, 20% sales tax, etc. Oh, because you want something for your tax money? Hmmmm.
Democracy don't inherently have any of the traits you flag as rational either. Democracies tend to be based on a constitution which are generally as hard as divine laws to change, require obedience (does it really matter if God or the judge/police hands out the punishment) and absolute faith on an ideology (democracy).

Nothing about democracy is provability optimal, and North American democratic discourse spirals away from logic and scientific method based thinking every day.

Your point that it would be a mistake to approach them exactly as another western democracy is absolutely valid, but it would be mistake to swing too far to the other side. Iran is more like us than the majority of powers in the region.
I find it frightening that someone in their government tries to pull such strings to enforce economic views.
One difference is that the Rochester Subway operated for almost 30 years [1].

Interestingly enough, it was actually used as a freight railroad until 1996. It is easy to walk right down into, with two different public access points that have no impediment to traffic. There is a lot of cool graffiti down there, especially in the area underneath the broad street bridge. I'd recommend anyone in the area to grab a flashlight and explore at some point.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Subway
For someone like Facebook or Google that does not matter. It doesn't look like he shopped it to enough buyers. Or perhaps this was a quick and easy deal, he would have to wait on others. Also perhaps he was afraid of losing to mobile.
Ask HN: Do open source projects have job boards where they ask for developers?
If not, why not? I'm guessing many open source projects need injections of development talent.
Show HN: A visualization of how far songs have traveled through space
It's a good thing to break this vicious circle of "no VC = no investment = less chances for startups to grow / fewer startups = less attraction for VCs".
The world shouldn't be split anymore into "mature countries and emerging countries", it rather should be potential markets so regions won't be absolutely VC less.
Friction and drag coefficient may have removed all the feathers in the boost phase :)
Online dating is elance of romance. It's a race to the bottom.

"Myspace, Match, eHarmony, CL… they all suck for the elegantly simple reason that online there are too many indiscriminate horny men and too few cute girls. The dynamics are totally in the woman’s favor, ridiculously so in that it encourages massive self-assessment inflation that will carry over into real life social interactions, guaranteeing disappointment."

http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/online-dating-is-f... is an interesting article on online dating.

A great youtube video on why online dating doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5_JK_LcEI
There's a detailed and informative article about the design of the New Horizons probe on the British Interplanetary Society site at [1]. An even more detailed description of the science payload can be found at [2].

[1] http://www.bis-space.com/2015/07/13/14875/inside-new-horizon...

[2] http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-payload-overview.pdf
That's not going to help this time, because the TPP is fast-tracked and can't be filibustered, and has the overwhelming support of the Republican majority.
>(besides Israel, obviously)
Out of interest, why obviously? The unfaltering support given to Israel seems strange (to most outside of the US who I have spoken to).

Israel has it's religious fundamentalists (just like the rest of the region).

Is militarily aggressive, disregards civilian life, commits war crimes, disregards international law and opinion (with impunity due to the US and their veto - and forcing other countries to at least abstain from votes), has actual developed the nuclear bomb, is destabilising to the region, discusses attacking their neighbours (sorry not attacking - pre-emptive...

Yet this is never questioned, nor discussed from what I can tell. They are "the good guys" so the rules are different for them.
If you Google Jeff Bass and Brigham, enough hits come up to make you think that he had some sort of association with that hospital [0]. This picture here (far left) [1] looks like the same person.

http://health.usnews.com/doctors/jeffrey-bass-342891 [0]

http://www.personalmds.com/doctors/bios [1]
I assume each car will record its data and upload it. Handily google fiber has lots of upload capacity. Google will then aggregate changes in the maps.
Maybe show the time by default?
If I have a deadline I get impatient.

If I'm just cruising through things at my own pace, it's all good.
POF's founder story is fascinating and jealousy making. It was just right time, right place, right product. He had $10MM in the bank before he realized he needed help and hired his first employee..
Briefly reading online the main imaging instrument on board, the RALPH camera, includes a visible light CCD with color channels.
Can you explain why in this case? I don't really see how it can make that much of a difference. Shanghai was already a huge city, for example.
Never had this been true in history. Bankruptcy and debt forgiveness have happened regularly through history. And if those don't happen, usually revolution or war is a consequence.
MasterCard Releases Open API Declaration
> The way skype used to work

Those were the good ole days... I hate the new skype.

Also, it's 2015, can Skype stop leaking subscriber IP information? Someone can resolve your IP from your username without even messaging or adding you as a friend. Seems like a design flaw to me
100 million per year and only about 6x multiple? I'd expected at least a billion but I guess they aren't doing as great as they used to?
People aren't on reddit mainly to find other people to date or hookup.
Amazon, the utility?
For gas stations, the profit from gas is ~1%, but the profit from snacks etc. is much higher. So gas stations could easily add electric charging stations and continue making profit. Source: worked at Sheetz during high school and college, sat through their corporate presentations from time to time.

Now, it is true that the electric charging stations have to compete with an additional category: people charging at home, so there will be gas station closings. The first franchise to add electric chargers should still be profitable, though.
That's a different dynamic. Consciously managing someone out is very different than taking potentially star performers and laying them off for nothing you can attribute to them.
It's interesting that by sending his remains on that probe we basically guaranteed that at least some human remains will survive millions of years in interstellar space, unless of course, New Horizons collides with something(which I guess it will, given enough time?).
May I shamelessly plug my friend's startup?

http://www.jessmeetken.com/ is based on introductions from women to other women, which eliminated the problem that women's inboxes are filled with lots of low-quality (and occasionally vulgar) messages.
I wonder if they're trying to wait out Firefox on the MP4 vs. WebM/Ogg issue. They've already gone HTML5 on the mobile versions.
It is also the only one that it makes sense to care about, from a business perspective.
When California goes bankrupt the federal government spend more money in California. This is automatic. This doesn't happen in the Euro area. In fact, the opposite happens: Brussels force the country to spend less.
I'm not against reducing complexity, I don't think that's necessarily going too far.

I'm speaking more about what happens when you go too far and someone else has to deal with it. Let's say the simplest, and still descriptive, directions are:

go down Main Street
turn left at Oak Street
turn right at Acorn Lane
fifth house on the left

versus:

go that way, left at Smith's, right at Taylor's, brick house

The second is an example of refactoring to reduce line count but actually increases complexity to someone not familiar with the area.
Well, comparing wet-weather conditions with theoretical max cornering speeds is ludicrous, quite frankly. Of course there's a reasonable change of slippage at 25kmh on racing slicks.

It should be noted that it's also Rotterdam, the Netherlands we're talking about here. That doesn't mean that bureaucrats can't screw up, but if this type of road is unfit for bicycles they'll probably find out quick enough ;)
Computers got more complicated. The BIOS hasn't been basic since the late 1980s.
Disclaimer: my parents are Portuguese and I visit Portugal regularly.

I understand his feelings, I don't understand his reasoning.

I understand his feelings because there is a lot of unfairness going on: big economies (e.g.: France, Italy) are treated with more leniency and tolerance than small economies (e.g.: Portugal, Spain), simply because they're far more important to EU. It is humiliating and Greece should feel it even worse.

I don't understand his reasoning because for the indebted countries there are only 2 objective choices: it is the EU way or the highway. The EU simply can't accept that Greek voters just decide to quit the treatment but remain in the Eurozone because the voters of Portugal, Spain, Italy and other countries would do just the same. It would have been the end of Eurozone.

Varoufakis and Syriza should have started a Grexit strategy from the early beginning. They didn't, so Germany saw they were bluffing and won the game.

Greece lost because Varoufakis didn't understand what was at stake.
> You should never have to do that. You shouldn't be able to do that.

Someone, at somepoint, has to do this though. Custom memory allocators are more or less predicated on having a byte buffer you chop up and use like this.

I think the best we get -- especially in driver code -- is well thought out design that have low cost abstractions between the device details and the application logic. But that seems like a library detail more than a compiler or language one.
Do they have a choice at this stage? Personally I don't think austerity is a good way out but when you have no money, no one will give you money, and nobody even wants anything to do with you, there aren't many other choices.
Heh, Silicon Valley (the show) talks about maintaining a pre-revenue state.
More single women, probably - men will generally go where the women are.
End of General Purpose Languages: Rubinius 3.0 and the Next 10M Programs
I'm American and I cringed the second I heard that too but I noticed they stopped pretty fast, I suspect the few people that did it got caught up in the moment and then quickly realized they might sound a little foolish. Or someone in the crowd gave them a dirty look.
Interview: Larry Wall
> out of fear he would align with the USSR.

oh come on. That was not the fear (although perhaps "portrayed" as that, but it was never the fear by those who commanded the action. The fear was he wanted to use the profits of the resources of their country to benefit the people of the country. This would never do as the profits were being directed to Britain and the US.

It is like China overthrowing the US government because they wanted the control of the oil and profits from the surge in the US oil industry due to fracking.

Then framing the attack and overthrow of a sovereign, elected government as something to do with US being aligned with a fictitious enemy
iirc, he was was able to scale easily since his c# based dev allowed for performance etc. tl;dr he knew how to build a big site.
I wish we would kill flash by providing a stronger solution. Does any application exist today that can replicate the functionality of even Flash MX (now 11 years old) in HTML5? An actual application that could be given to non-developers and not a series of javascript libraries.

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/geog4043/notes/flash...

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/geog4043/notes/flash...
Even if all of this is true and then some, it doesn't change the fact that there are very little motorbikes on the road. Switching to these types of roads, even if it were impossible to ride on for motorbikes might still be a net positive for the environment.
The fact that it's almost never taken too far is a good example that it actually does carry a great deal of weight, it's just one of those things that people respect.
Does the president need approval by Congress for lifting the sanctions? I don't know the answer, but I suppose that might be an issue.
I think it's also a place where men can boost their self esteem. I think it's the antithesis of seduction. It's just way too efficient and not serendipitous enough. Sure, you can say swiping on someone allows you to interact with way more people than you could ever interact with in person. The thing that's lost is that random look in the middle of the street, coffee shop, or party where you exchange glances with a stranger and wonder for a second if the attraction is mutual. Then you put yourself out there without knowing what the response would be because you don't know if the person is looking for a tryst or romance. On tinder, you can assume they're already open to at least some flirting. If not, no big deal -- you never even looked the person in the eyes.
JSON to Swift (model) written in HTML 5
> Many of the suggested improvements are objectively sound, e.g. property taxes, tax collection in general, normalized VAT, reducing government corruption and red-tape, removing various monopolies, etc.

Those have been proposed by Syriza itself, but that hardly matters because the disagreement is not actually about economic policy, at all.

The salient features of the Eurogroup deal are things like: "give us $50 billion of your airports, bridges, government land, tourist attractions, etc, but at today's Depression-era prices". Shock doctrine stuff.

And: "take far more severe austerity, for the chance to negotiate another bailout you need to pay us back for the previous bailout, without debt relief being on the table, despite your population rejecting this option in the very recent past, despite the IMF concluding the current debt load is clearly massively unsustainable". Make that sound reasonable, please.

> It's been ~5 years since the first bailout, yet Greece haven't made much progress.

Could it be that the collapse of 25% of Greek GDP under the last 5 years of austerity demonstrates that more austerity isn't the answer? Some economist wise cracked that prescribing austerity for a country in a depression† is like trying to cure a sick patient with regular beatings.

† the worst depression of a modern state since the 1930s, incidentally.

> No wonder Germans get tired bankrolling all of Greece.

Hah, those generous German tax-payers. But wait, aren't they really bailing out German and French banks, at least indirectly, after the ECB gobbled up all that toxic peripheral debt that is was the predictable outcome of wild trade imbalances in an ill-thought-out monetary union? What fraction of Greek bailout money was just recycled into paying back the IMF and ECB? Do you know?

Do you know how loan sharks operate?

Here's an alternate perspective to jar you out of your slumber:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/20/its-time-to-kick-german...
Better yet, try listing wars between nuclear armed nations.

When everyone can hurt everyone regardless of size you get a "mexican standoff" which is good for stability
If I make an animation or game using these technologies today, will it work unchanged ten years from now?
This looks pretty neat. I'll check it out! Thank you.
The problem is that while Greece is better off leaving the Euro, individual Greeks that already have savings would be worse off if their savings were converted to drachmas.

Seeing as how Syriza was elected by a populist movement, they could just as easily be deposed by the same populism, and a lot of people (especially those who are already retired or nearing retirement age) would be upset if they lost a large chunk of their savings.

But yes, economically, the drachma is better for Greece. Especially for younger Greeks who have little to no savings, and wouldn't be hurt by a devaluing currency, but would stand to gain from increased employment.
Thank you. Thanks to your insightful comment, instead of discussing Pluto and New Horizons, we have an entire thread dedicated to discussing whether "U-S-A!" is toxic jingoism, and because you got so many replies, no amount of downvoting will fix it.
Have you never attended a European football match?!
The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them
It somehow breaks my virtualenv prompt...
Seems like Ruby may have a fork in the road. @brixen has been unhappy with the Ruby Language Design Process for a long time, and these thoughts seem to break the camel's back on what Ruby itself can support ( socially and philosophically mostly ) without forking the language and making Rubinius the first Language Platform for a forked language.
I can't speak for any other cities but I do know that Portland is much too far in land to be hit by a tsunami. The destruction within Portland would come from the earthquake itself.

Also, here are some sources that seem to coincide with what the author wrote.

- http://www.oregon.gov/OMD/OEM/osspac/docs/Oregon_Resilience_...

- http://i.imgur.com/MX7okVp.png

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
Not sure how this benefits the US at all. Iran reaps billions in frozen assets and the end to their oil embargo. Plus, the US caved on giving the Iranians a 14 day windows to prep for UN inspections which is more than enough time to cover up their non-compliance.

This is a huge win for the Iranians, not sure what we get out of it besides a shaky ally in the region who's never backed us up and essentially undermined everything we've attempted to do in the region.
> Is militarily aggressive, disregards civilian life, commits war crimes, disregards international law and opinion (with impunity due to the US and their veto - and forcing other countries to at least abstain from votes),

Israel is our ally not because they're the "good guys" but because they share, and can help spread, our basic values about democratic government. You can have militarily aggressive democracies (e.g. the Roman Republic). Democracy is not a matter of being the "good guy" or the "bad guy" but a matter of how people relate to each other and the government.
That would mean you went deeper in this chapter than in the previous one. The first fast iteration is really to get familiar with the main ideas and terminology. For example if it's a book on algorithms, you skim through it and understand what is linkedlist, what is tree, what is graph, their running time but not the details of implementation and certainly not exercises. Then on the next one you try to understand basic implementation, but still not doing any exercises. Then on the next one you try to implement them and do some exercises. That's fun, keep you moving, refreshing your memory and it doesn't feel like you've been reading this book forever and still on the 3 chapter.
In general, plugins are supposed to improve a product by adding or enhancing existing features. Flash however enables websites to break out of the HTML, CSS and JS environments and their security constraints, which should mean that flash have a larger responsibility regarding security. If Flash lived under the constraints of the browser own security, then flash bugs would barely register as news worthy.
Perl education PDFs from basic to expert
Announcing O’Reilly’s New Book: “NGINX: A Practical Guide to High Performance”
Why exactly? A lot of people's issues with uEFI seem to stem from Secure Boot (and the lack of additional CAs contained within). And while I grant that Secure Boot is problematic, uEFI is actually taking us away from black box firmware that was BIOS.

In many ways this type of stuff has always been possible, the only difference is the skill threshold has been lowered. So I guess the question is do you believe in the phase: "Ignorance is bliss?" Because that's what you're asking for, back to BIOS where these things are still readily do-able, just requires more technical skill and time.
The problem with that is that if I knew a girl I wouldn't need online dating.

He is right that there need to be some kind of filtering though - the problem is that the men women want to date are also the girls most likely to put up with the filters.
Not to repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877949
Wait, is it 2011 again?
Here is a discussion of the PlentyOfFish architecture on High Scalability http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture.
In the early 20th century there was a high-profile case in Portugal, where a forger managed to convice Waterlow and Sons (a currency printer in the UK, since bought by De La Rue and currently one of the Euro printers) to print batches of portuguese notes.

These were, of course, indistinguishable from real notes. The scheme ultimately failed when a mistake caused the printing of duplicate serial numbers already ordered by the state.

I doubt a scheme like this would work today in the slightest. If in an un-digitized world this didn't last long, in today's world it would quickly be discovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves_dos_Reis