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Mugeson 90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students

There are now similar drills ("armed intruder" drills) in french schools since the attacks of late 2015. I think it would have been unthinkable before.

Mugeson Teaching my 10-year-old daughter to program

> From the looks of it, Scratch requires Flash...

Snap may be a good flash-free alternative: http://snap.berkeley.edu

Mugeson AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To

> most ad-blockers don't actually block ads; they just block cross-domain, spying widgets. Nothing is preventing you from showing a self-hosted, untracked image that's actually an ad.

Most ad-blockers I know of use cosmetic filters, which can hide any element from a page, including self-hosted and non-tracking ads (see https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...). Sadly, showing ads that are respectful to the user is not that easy...

Mugeson No, it’s not you: Google maps really did get crappy

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604387

Mugeson Ask HN: Hobbies sans screen?

If you're into music you could learn to play an instrument. It can be pretty expensive, especially if you take lessons (which I would recommend at first), and if you don't have time to practice regularly it's probably not the best idea. But it will give you a good reason to spend some time away from any screen, and it can be very rewarding.

Mugeson Ask HN: Why is it still so hard to host your own email/calendar that just works?

As far as self hosting calendars and contacts are concerned, I'd recommend using a caldav/carddav server, I personally like Baikal [1], and Radicale [2] seems to be another good lightweight option. Contrary to Owncloud these two servers do not provide a web interface to check your calendar/contacts, but there are clients available for most platforms, including web clients if you need one.

[1] http://sabre.io/baikal/ [2] http://radicale.org/

Mugeson The promise of static typing

I'm not saying that this metric measures language popularity, but that language popularity seems to have a big influence on it. I may be wrong, but that's what caught my eye when I read the article. There are plenty of other factors that aren't accounted for, some of which have been pointed out by other commenters.

Mugeson The promise of static typing

This analysis fails to take into account the popularity of a language. The repository of a library is likely to have more users if it's written in a popular language, and these users will probably report more bugs and feature requests.

Considering this I'm not surprised at all to see that Java, Python and C++ repositories have a higher "bug density" than Clojure, Go or Erlang ones.