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It sounds like you're trolling, but if you aren't:

1. One wrong does not make another wrong right.

2. "Dick" is used as an offhand comment usually because it is considered less offensive than other words with the same meaning, like "asshole" or "piece of shit".

3. I agree that women treat men badly as well. People suck.

4. Imagine your daughter or mother being called an "emo bitch" because they reacted angrily to an insult. Would you tell her "well at least they didn't explicitly insult your genitalia?"
The interesting market is the "personal" server, which is idle 99% of the time but cannot be turned off as the owner only has 1 to start with.
You're asking the wrong question. You should ask the question of how forcing people to use their legal name instead of any old random arbitrary name they might make up equals less money.

And I think that's reasonably obvious. Facebook got to be as big as it is by forcing people to use their real names, so that all their acquaintances could find them easily.
Medicine and law, in my western European country at least, are vastly more reputable careers than software engineering. Perhaps you don't make as much money as a mid 20 year old, but in terms of reputation and social standing and so on, it's not even close. I'm sure that these intangible benefits have some sort of value, regardless of pay.
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So the question should now be, do they have a sustainable competitive advantage, or are these high profit margins vulnerable to being competed away?
I am not well versed in law at all but that sounds pretty fair. I guess FB doesnt behave as an org you can apply with whatever name you want, but more as a gov which wants to keep track of its citizens. They can also do so because their members have few alternatives, just like citizens of countries.
> This is a company, a product, which no one is forced to use.

In practice, not using Facebook means cutting off social contact with some people.
This is a very good point. Perhaps their drive for a "real names" policy is not for the actual real name, but rather to not have an obviously fake name. E.g. in your scenario an obviously fake name would be "Taal TheSexMan David". That's the sort of stuff that killed-off MySpace, if you ask me.
> They're not discriminating against GLBT+ people, they're discriminating against people using pseudonyms.

Which disproportionately affects trans people.
I'm seeing my upvoted comments through the URL even though the "saved" link doesn't appear on my status bar (top bar ? I don't know how it's called). I have 47 karma at the time of posting this.

As an aside, I love HN, it's full of good respectful discussions about topics I care about, but sometimes I feel it needs a tutorial about the actual features of the site. Like with this much karma you can upvote, with this much you can downvote...

Does it tie in with the site's hacker audience? Something like "Smart people will figure it out"? Maybe it's to prevent users from gaming the system by targeting a specific level of rights...
And I thought this article was going to be about ETOPS ...
Whining? What a way to invalidate those disagreeing with the philosophy of systemd.
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> the harassers already knew their real name, I take it? How would abolishing the real-names policy help

Without the policy they don't have to use their real name, which means harassers can't find them (as easily) on Facebook. The ability to use a real name that is not your actual name is just a clunky workaround for the policy, not a proof that the policy works.
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Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
> You seem to think that people have this single thing which is their name - that might be true in the US (I dunno) but it's not true in many other places.

Even people with one "real name" may have slight variations on it that they use. Many people use their nickname and don't show their middle name. If your name isn't written in Latin script, you might have the original script version and a romanised version, possibly even more than one romanised version. If you're Chinese, you might have a Western name alias which you're known by professionally.
Imagine the uproar if Facebook forced you to have a profile pic that clearly shows your face, the sort that photo ids require.
Like I say, intuitively it strikes me as an acceptable way to hire. If one grad contributes to 20 open source projects, and another one has never had an extracurricular project, you know who the better programmer is likely to be.

But is this a factor in other careers? You're saying that you'd be more likely to hire a doctor who's paid for extra courses etc, well perhaps, but do doctors compete in this manner? And do graduate doctors compete in this manner or are they effectively assured of a stable career?
"cheap diesel is artificially cheap due to government incentives, which could (and probably will) be taken away at any time."

The french govnerment has already announced it will remove the tax advantages on diesel by 2020, thanks to the Volkswagen scandal.
Modern-day Oprah culture teaches that you are a beautiful and unique person and that any suffering or misfortune you may encounter is something that you should probably sue somebody about.

close, but I'd generalize this more and adapt it so that it also relates more to non-US cultures (less Oprah, less suing), and by removing the action (suing) from it and replacing it with what people tend to think, not how they react to it - something like

"Modern-day culture teaches that you are a beautiful and unique person and that any suffering or misfortune you may encounter is somebody else's, or the system's, fault"

At least that is how I perceive the group I think you are targetting here.
If you take the convex hull of a piece of this material, the volume is occupied by mostly air, same as for aerogel, foam and the like.
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Oh yeah. Just looking at my chat contact sidebar (is that what it's called? the thing on the right of the Facebook homepage), 3/15 friends aren't using their face in their profile pic.
The saved link should appear in your profile, when you click your username.
True.
I've asked myself the question that if I do want to leave Facebook, but my 'friends' doesn't care and not willing to do any other form of communication, are they really my friends?
Couldn't the money gathered be split up?

Like, 75% of the money goes to the funded project, 5% to the crowdfunding company and 20% is given to some less popular research.

Problem is, how to distribute those 20%.

Also, these platforms would be less attractive to the original researchers, because they lose 20%.
Are you using the correct case? That URL -the username part- is case sensitive.
Maybe this is what she was getting at when making the comparison to bone structures, but from seeing how it deforms under load in the video, it seems that to realise its potential for serious structural applications this needs to be bonded between two sheets of material to form a composite structure that works like a 'space frame'.[0]

This would allow the fabrication of large stiff arbitrarily shaped panels to form monocoque structures. I would imagine that you could even replace large parts of the conventional rib and skin structure of an aircraft with this eventually. The trickiest problem will be transmitting loads through panel joints.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_frame
Not really; the only way to force companies is by spending your money somewhere else.
They just simply won't care while you're still making the same money for them.
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The UK has a huge glut of lawyers. I hear similar things from the US.

A lot of people go into it believing they'll make huge piles of money, but a lot of the money goes to the public school types who know someone/are related to someone in barrister's chambers.

The rest goes to corporate street fighters - the kind of people who get involved in patent troll cases, and send out cease and desist letters to the owners of domains one or two letters away from a famous brand.

High street laywers don't earn much, comparatively. They're also not particularly competent (IME).

There's a basic problem here - when someone finds a piece of popular software is crap, they're not surprised.

When someone discovers a doctor or a lawyer is incompetent, they are surprised.

In fact I suspect these professions are a lot less competent than we'd all like to believe. The real difference in ability may be smaller than we think.

But software is used by millions, so when there's a bug it can make the headlines, and it's always bad news for the public perception of the software industry.

Doctors, lawyers, and accountants all work personally, case by case, so it's easy to hide pervasive incompetence.
That is true. Once a rather famous illustrator told me that he couldn't have done a certain ad showing a lion because … "Drawing hairs for hours and hours was just too boring, so I smoked".

In my experience cannabis especially lowers the motivation for physical activity, but also the "motivation" to process and work on bad emotions.
Incredible and beautiful.
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> And it's not a fake name. It's their name. You seem to think that people have this single thing which is their name - that might be true in the US (I dunno) but it's not true in many other places.

Not according to the current laws.
You may want to change the laws as well. ( No, I'm not cynical. )
That's funny, but from the anecdotal evidence it sounds like single-engine ferry flights are at least a couple of orders of magnitude more risky than any ETOPS scenario. Fewer lives are put at risk, though.
Very cool. Surely there are other ways to transport light aircraft though...
> CS culture is one which is overtly and unnecessarily hostile to women...men frequently engage in behaviors that are hostile, threatening, and demeaning to women

Many people repeat this claim, but I don't think it's true.
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> For many communities there's simply no alternative to FB right now.

Make one.
Work on it.
Why would someone else make it for them/you for 'free'?
This can be done now with hyper-theads. It is discussed in Ulrich Drepper's excellent 'What every programmer should know about memory' in section 6.3.4.

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

To be clear I am not declaring 'been done before, not interested' I like this blog post and if your software is cpu bound then you are almost certain memory access bound. So there is a lot of value in finding better ways to speed up access.
This is a curious exception to Betteridge's Law.

If the question is 'Is Money Corrupting <thing>?', then the answer is almost always yes.
Nothing is more high-tech than culture, it's everything even if we tend to work over the seemingly faceless Internet these days - it's people all the way down.
> On the contrary, most of those who are interested in addressing gender imbalances in fields like computer science are simultaneously interested in addressing the gender imbalances in "unsexy" jobs, since these are just two sides of the same coin.

That's another claim that, if true, would be pretty, but happens to be false. (Just like "men are mean to women in technology and so keep them out of the field.") It's just another bromide to smooth over unpleasant reality.

A Google News search for "women in technology" yields 61 million results. A Google News search for yields 1.5 million. There's nowhere near as much attention to getting men into traditionally women's roles as there is increasing the number of women in technology.
> Most fast-takeoff AGI scenarios usually involve a singular intelligence created from an algorithm that easily scales based on how much computing power is allocated to it.

Still, it's pretty easy to imagine this not resulting in the sort of "runaway" intelligence most often associated with the notion of singularity. What if general intelligence is inherently extremely computationally complex? Imagine that the level of intelligence is represented by a number n, and say that human intelligence is n=100. If the computational complexity of intelligence is, say, O(1000^n), we won't expect to see hardware that's twice as intelligent as humans any time soon even if we know the algorithm.
True, but if that is the case you won't be running dmd in the first place. And automated conversion/runtime translation will be a possibility even with different service managers, e.g. systemXVI.

I'm not really convinced by the second, in that I believe that nothing in the article proves that service management is something too complex to be done via configuration files.
I'm using RequestPolicy for this. If a site doesn't load completely, just enable a couple of required sources, and you're done. It's an extra step sure, but usually needs to be done just once per site.
> Its most recent Companies House filing shows the company as making a pre-tax loss of £28.5m last year, but the firm also paid its 362 UK staff a total of £35.4m in share bonuses.

So £35m was distributed as income towards the employees. This means the employees are paid extra, have more money to contribute and spend locally, and have paid the correct income taxes on the bonuses. How is this a bad thing?
"was already present in mammals at the time of Messel" sounds funny when Messel is a town just 20 minutes away, inhabited by actual living people.

But yes, the things they dig up over there are amazing.
We've been building this for a while and now have our first public release!

It's a database of 48,598 research organisations around the world, many with added metadata. CC-BY, so you can grab it and use it in commercial applications. It's been useful internally and we wanted to share it.

You can download the full db here: https://www.grid.ac/downloads or explore what's present here: https://www.grid.ac/institutes

And a final link, the announcement blog post: http://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/digital-science-lau...

[I hope this fits in with show HN, although I've been around for a while this is my first submission]
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No-one expects companies to pay the full whack of tax. But Facebook is taking the piss. They need to be a bit careful, because they risk causing much tighter tax regulation in EU.

Citizens don't see this behaviour and think "well done, got one over on the government". Most citizens are infuriated by this scumbag behaviour.

And before anyone says "they're just obeying the law" -- we don't know that. They're clearly not evading tax, just aggressively avoiding it, but some tax avoidance schemes haven't been tested in courts yet.
Apart from the advantage that it's very easy to prevent requests which don't have the required client certificate from even hitting your application, which is a major security win.
Tech companies don't show profits as long as there's place for development. They're still paying tax on everything else, including renting offices, paying salaries and bonuses etc.
Interesting that nobody seems to have had anything particularly worth writing on the subject of stoicism for the past nearly-2000 years.
This was the article that got me started.

http://owaislone.org/blog/webpack-plus-reactjs-and-django/
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Science fiction gives the ideas that we can eventually implement ourselves.

How many people working on the first customer mobile phone didn't think it was the Communicator from Star Trek?

In 2001 A Space Odyssey, the book describes the tablet computer.

Scifi has a great cultural and technological precedent in computing: it gives the ideas of what to do next. And that doesn't matter what sex you are (or aren't).
How is this a bad thing?

Because the amount of corporation tax paid makes a better headline?
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It's kind of like a noise you don't notice until it stops.

I don't mind ads when viewing sites on desktop - except for tracking, which I block unconditionally, and autoplay videos - but I can't stand mobile ads.

There's the battery life/bandwith problem, they take up precious screen space, especially popovers and sticky banners, but my real problem is that mobile is a much more personal, close up experience. I don't want things shouting in my face when I'm trying to read.

Publishers need to make money, but the cost of mobile advertising is too high.
> Once you actually decide to take responsibility for your own speech.

I accept responsibility for the content of my speech. I do not accept responsibility for feelings of offense others may feel in response to my speech. It's not my job to manage their emotional state.
Well, perhaps event promotion is fine. But I wouldn't shed a tear if product advertising was banned in practically all its forms.

You could argue that movies are products but at least movies have a short lifespan so their promotion is time-limited. I guess you could argue that bands and sporting events and such-like are products too. But I'm okay with "music_performance_x/sporting_event_y/movie_z/theatrical_performance_w is coming to venue_v from time_t1 to time_t2" type promotions :)

There's an advertising hoarding/billboard on top of the opera house in the city where I'm from. For a car company. Been like this for as long as I remember. Permanent blot on the city-scape. Permanent eye-sore. Makes me dislike the opera house as a venue because of it. Yuck.

I disapprove of billboards in general and most forms of outdoor advertising. I'm not against personal recommendations and location-based promotion.

I'm sick of having my attention grabbed while consuming media, while browsing the web, while walking or driving. I install ad-blockers on whichever device I can. I keep TV viewing to a minimum and am continually put off by the sheer volume of ads and their vacuity.

I do listen to the radio a lot, I hate the ads on radio less, you can sort of tune them out. Visual ads I guess I hate the most.
Actually, Amazon bought last year Annapurna Labs for $400M. Annapurna Labs, while being secretive, was known to design ARM chips to servers (Fabless), and is probably one of the only startups in the recent years in the stagnant chips market.
Why would Amazon invest & buy a chip design firm if it was not intending to ditch Intel and try placing some ARM chips in its servers?
Seems like many of these aircraft would fit in shipping containers with some slight disassembly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Ying_Lee

For some reason, the link sites recently carried a bunch of articles about the Chinese-American aviator Hazel Lee, who is buried in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. Her job was to deliver planes during WWII, which is notable because she flew lots of different aircraft.
Ah, trickle down economics!
Facebook reaps the rewards of the UK infrastructure. Facebook should behave as a responsible citizen and help fund that infrastructure.

If they don't want to behave like responsible citizens they can fuck off.
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What is the news here? FB was making a loss last year, so why should they pay corporation tax?
The structure. A thing to note is that the tubes themselves are hollow, a very slim metal cylinder.
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You don't actually use elasticsearch, do you?
> They need to be a bit careful, because they risk causing much tighter tax regulation in EU.

Don't think they've got much to worry about as long as Juncker's in charge of the commission at least. There will be huffing and puffing, but no blowing the house down.
>Considering most of this untaxed money sits idle in some Caribbean virtual bank

It's not idle. Those carribean virtual banks buy a lot of empty condos in big cities with tight housing markets all around the world.

God forbid that money would all be taxed away. Prices and rents might come down and those condos would start to fill up with people... What a waste
When I was a less sensible youth I made the mistake of using real contact details on a domain name registration, and then subsequently being an obvious target on a gaming forum. I received targeted attacks on my online accounts which lead to all sorts of things being purchased in my name and I received all sorts of unsolicited and possibly legally dubious things in the mail (probably bought with stolen credit cards). I live in the UK and I think the people targeting me lived somewhere in Europe.

Online harrassment is a thing. It is a thing that caused me a lot of stress and anxiety, and I think I probably received a fairly mild dose of it. Unmoderated forums can be vicious and brutal places, and for that reason nobody should be obligated to run one.

Usenet was invented 35 years ago. Do you really think that if we (as a society) are going to learn to "finally handle" unmoderated discussion boards when the evidence clearly points to the fact we haven't thus far?

There's nothing that says that a moderated discussion forum only allows people who think in a particular way. In my experience the kind of moderation that leads to the highest quality and most interesting discussion (often from people with radically different points of view) is the kind that bans personal attacks and comments which are clearly designed to bait or otherwise incite a flame war. That moderation can happen in an open and visible way.
> the only way to force companies is by spending your money somewhere else

Or, you know, enforcing new legislation that forces the company to do what you want...
> paying salaries

Isn't that a tax paid by the employee, not employer?

Starbucks tried to say that they paid a lot in VAT, but that's a tax paid by the customer not the business.
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The problem statement is not so simple; one one hand there is incentive for the miner to keep the block small so that it propagates the network faster but that is looking at immediate profit, however, on the other hand, Peter Todd has shown[1] in the bitcoin-dev mailinglist that actually "increasing" the blocksize and even withholding it for some time significantly increases profit in the near long term.

Now, even ignoring this, if we assume the problem statement just as what the author describes, there are problems with his approach. Firstly, big pools have said that they operate at a loss and their aim is not to earn profit from mining but by providing value-added services like 'guaranteed tx confirmation', which big pools can. Secondly, and technically, this only works if data set is low so as to keep collision low [2]. Beyond a certain point there are many false positives and worst case all transactions might be needed to sent anyways.

So although this is not worse than the current status, but certainly could end up not even being useful.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.source...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Interesting_prope...
I pull the comments in with: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/commen...

(Which isn't completely up to date; I have some changes I need to push public like hn-support.)
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