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SavePoint was to featured "several prominent GamerGate figureheads". The sponsoring organization generally claims to take "a neutral stance" on GamerGate. (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sxsw-cancels-gaming-panels-...)

Randi Lee Harper is noted for making tools to help victims of online harassment. Level Up panel description was "A panel from experts on online harassment in gaming and geek culture, how to combat it, how to design against it, and how to create online communities that are moving away from harassment."

The GamerGate crowd claim that they care about "ethics in game journalism" and that the abuse that feminist gamers experience doesn't have anything to do with them. So theoretically, there aren't opposing sides here.
> and we tend to be the levelheaded and civil ones!

I've seen a lot of things discussed on HN. I think that may be wishful thinking. Just because HN isn't full of straight out cussing and insults doesn't mean we're level headed or civil.
creator here. sorry, i did not expected to be hn'ed. not running js is usually a good idea though!
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> She is much more valuable to society than I am.

Perhaps, but a natural effect of the way that capitalist economies work is that contributions aren't valued by social utility in a fair sense, but by utility weighted by the wealth of the people to whom that utility is provided.
> how does it alienate the property?

They won't be able to sell their property; if one can't sell something, it has lost all value. As such, it violates the Fifth Amendment.

The initiative also enables law enforcement to seize such items without warrants, which violates the Fourth Amendment.

> why would they poach them if there is no market for ivory?

Because there is, and always will be, a black market for them. And because megafauna such as elephants are pests. Poor farmers would just as soon kill them than see their families starve because their crops have been eaten or trampled.

> For example how would you prevent extinction of elephants in the wild?

I imagine that elephant ranches would be pretty close to a wild environment. Even were they not, would you rather have elephants go extinct altogether, or survive on ranches?
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sort of. the hsts cache gets cleared when a private browsing session is closed or when you clear it manually in browser settings. it takes a long time (up to a year) to expire on its own.
When we implement Display PostScript in js, so we can use it for the web?

HTML+CSS for publishing static, stand-alone documents isn't all that bad. It's terrible for making "applications", and it's terrible for composing more than one thing into a page (such as a header, footer, table of contents/menu).

I still think Adobe's idea[1] of flowing content through boxes (aka the "desktop publishing way") makes more sense than many of the other "augmentations" for CSS in terms of allowing complex layout. But it is an idea that makes sense for basically composing pages - not really for "applications".

I'm not convinced there's much of a meaningful overlap between layout for hypermedia meant to be read/watched/consumed - and "smart object graphs"/"applications" that are meant to be interacted with. Other than that the latter can be used to build the former -- but that's a terrible way to approach standardization -- just for the problems related to accessibility and machine readability alone.

If we could agree to keep the two things separate, make some real effort into making better readers for better (but probably dumber/less feature-full mark-up) -- we would probably be better off. Even such things as readability[2] shows the merit of this: it shows, by existing, the virtue of a browser that is better at being a hypertext browser is useful (and that a browser that's better at being an application run-time can be used to build and host a browser that's better at being a hypertext browser...).

But I don't think we should need for users to relate to that many layers: an OS and standard library that acts as platform for applications, an application that acts as a platform for applications and an application in the form of html+js+css+possibly some server side magic that acts as an application for browsing hypertext. I'd very much like an application (a browser) that's actually good at just browsing hypertext too.

[1] https://www.adobe.com/inspire/2014/01/complex-layouts-reflow... (Now dead AFAIK, even though there's a js polyfill)

[2] http://barisderin.com/?p=325
On the other hand, you're commenting on HN instead of actually working :)
Are you seriously trying to deny IE6 isn't there in the wild? It was a job I had to do. I was paid to do it. It was awful. This happened circa 2013.

For contrast I now support IE8 and IE9. Without jQuery. It's bad. Really, really bad. Like, there isn't indexOf on Array and asking for polyfill is forbidden.
It's accurate depending on what you're looking for. Saying you didn't visit a site means you either did, or did not, but saying you did visit a site means you 100% did for sure. In the case of a negative the results are meaningless, but in the case of a positive they are accurate. Similar to a bloom filter
So there is an interesting question. In a polarized situation where there are two sides presenting themselves as victims of the other... how could show one side is ACTUALLY right and one is wrong (assuming reasonable evidence) without sounding partisan?

Wouldn't anything that bolstered one side and defamed the other look very partisan? Wouldn't stronger evidence look MORE partisan?

Would you have to slowly dish out the evidence over time to turn the tide without setting off people's 'partisan hack' sensors in any single discussion?

Could you evidence end up making things MORE partisan and doing the opposite of what you intend?
They are not the cheapest for camping equipment, etc... But on the other hand you get a generous warranty so that many times this ends up cheaper than buying from the places which essentially are "final sale" outfits.

So, in the long run, they can be cheaper and the staff are more knowledgeable than average (for retail) about the things they sell. That means they hire enthusiasts (hikers, campers, cyclists, etc., and not random JC student who do not care much about what they sell.
It is also reinforced by their actions, so nature and nurture.
Basically for every category you have to really try and figure out what the customer needs are, the service dynamics, how to put together a proposition, etc.

Office By Q is a good example of really trying to understand customer needs and putting a compelling proposition into the marketplace.

For in-home cleaning, there might be a middle-ground. I could see trying out a few cleaners to be useful and selecting a favorite. Or maybe 2 different cleaners with different specialties rotating. But for just scheduling the same person at the same time, you can't really count on taking an ongoing cut.
interesting, are you using any browser addons? please file a bug at https://github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly, thanks
What's frustrating about this whole situation is how deceptive the "extremists" have been on both sides (GamerGate and Anti-GamerGate) by making false-flag attacks. You just can't tell who is faking what now, and it's making reasonable discussion between the two camps impossible, further polarizing everyone.
That was (mostly) true twenty years ago, but not any more.
I can't help but wonder if the vertical margin collapsing (in general) would have seemed worth it if we weren't borrowing concepts from print media.
Mecca will be unliveably hot by 2100 unless emissions are reduced
Tell it to a twelve year old kid working a mine in Burundi, I'm sure he'll sympathise.
As of today, you are right. However, we should be aiming towards a future where amateurs don't have to worry about browser incompatibilities. Coding time to be focused on building the product and its features, not juggling css rules to make it look the same across browsers.
But without cascading, the whole point of css.
I didn't know it existed, I'll have to check it out.
I've been here for thirteen years and have never had trouble with cops. Not once been stopped apropos of nothing and asked for ID, inspected for whatever, etc. If anything, I've been in a few situations where the cops should have given me a harder time than they did, but for whatever reason did not. I'm a white male.

Thing is, I know plenty of foreigners who have a similar experience to your own, so I know you're not wrong. I don't know what I do differently, but Japanese cops do not bother me at all.
what browser and extensions? feel free to file a bug at github.com/diracdeltas/sniffly
The whole Gamergate drama reminds me of the old saying: “The reason why campus politics are so dirty is that the stakes are so small.” I mean seriously what kind of loser takes video games seriously? Or even worse, who actually cares about video game reviews?
The difference being that you get something back for that. Also, that you're free to leave at any time.
Also Laracasts has a great series on VueJS - mentioning it since it got me excited about VueJS and front-end JS frameworks in general.

https://laracasts.com/series/learning-vuejs
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Back 15 years ago or so, when I was in college, a friend and I went by Best Buy and Circuit City to get really cheap spindles of CDs. The CDs were junky, but they didn't need to be great. Right after college, I worked Black Friday at Best Buy and we had some really junky DVD players for $35 or so. Hell, we got two full trucks the night before Thanksgiving at our small store and we had them stacked so high in the warehouse that the stacks eventually collapsed and we were just throwing them onto huge piles. They're packed pretty well, but I can't guarantee that we didn't break any of those junky players any worse than they already were.

However, a few years ago (2009), my wife and I went out late Thanksgiving night for a midnight Toys R Us opening… then Old Navy… then Walmart… then Kmart. It was certainly crazy, but we saved around $300. We got video games, Lego sets and toys. All of it was stuff we wanted, and none of it was junk.

Would I do it again? With the perspective of how it interrupts Thanksgiving for all those employees, I think probably not. I'd be part of the problem. But it definitely paid off at the time.

Sort of aside— you don't have to drop your turkey leg and rush out the door on Thanksgiving to get in line to get good deals. Ignore the doorbusters and drop by the stores anytime later in the day. There's lots of other good stuff that's legitimately on sale that's still there all day. Costco doesn't even open early on Black Friday, and their sales go through the weekend.
> if anyone was at fault, it was the government regulators.

that seems to imply that the power plant's owners responsibility was not to ensure safe operation, but merely to follow the government regulations.

to my ear, the tone of the argument is that there is a 'rush to judge' private actors who cannot be judged or blamed.

surely, it's possible that oversight was inadequate on the part of both management and regulators?
adblocked domains are indistinguishable from hsts blocked domains in terms of timing. so they show up as false positives. a clever attacker could subtract them out though.
This is incomplete, but very, very good economic analysis. In the end his points are simple:

0. Employees are willing to trade "freedom" for job stability and increased average returns. Contracters will more easily defect for sporadic higher paying opportunities, which makes them less reliable.

1. Employers can overpay employees while ensuring that they know that they are overpaid, to 'domesticate' their employees and improve reliability of outcomes.

2. Decades ago, employers could also promise long-term job security to achieve similar effects, however rapidly changing markets mean their future existence (and ability to grant stability) is in question.

3. Instead, employees have fixated on cross-company careers, optimizing for general employability , which means that they must still conform to the requirements of a domesticated employeeship.

4. However, when employees have significant, direct, measurable profit impact skill, and can make or break the company, they can not be owned.

He also does an economic analysis of cursing, while explaining that maximizing employability tends to strip away the parts of people that can make them great.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/278181/video-games-revenu...
No doubt. But his attitudes reflected in more "conventional" settings as well. The firebombing of Japan, the Vietnam bombings, etc. He may have been the man we needed then, but he was a brutal sob.
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I said I seriously doubt.

No true Scotsman would be if someone clearly anti-GG was proven to send a death threat and I redefined them to not be anti-GG for some reason.

We haven't reached that point yet in my argument. I'd have to be proven wrong first.

Since the reason I'm anti-GG is the harassment and threats (don't agree with their ideas but I think they'd be ignorable without the problematic behavior), I wouldn't want to see someone on my side do the same. But they could.
Since the topic has also been making the rounds on HN, this was, as I recall, one of the issues raised with Gravity Payments and their $70K base salary.
Well, taxation as slavery is rhetoric with a long, strong, tradition going back to pre-Revolutionary days. But if you think the sort of person who writes about how "capitalism is evil" is going to have the background to meaningfully process and respond to that language, that's another matter entirely...
Redefining 'slavery' to include all forms of "I must expend some effort to put food in my mouth" (a condition that affects all animals) makes the word 'slavery' meaningless.
Gaijin is not an abbreviated form of gaikokujin, and neither term is really a slur. There aren't a lot of words in Japanese that are unambiguously slurs, like there are in English. That said, there are words that, when used, are used in a pejorative sense more often than not. Hakujin is probably one of them, and kokujin definitely is.
I went Black Friday shopping a few years ago when midnight was the earliest opening. We got some good deals, and it was fun, but I don't like that I'm partly to blame for making all those employees work on Thanksgiving.

We don't have nearly enough national holidays in the U.S., and I don't want to take this one away from anyone.
Last year we did Mt Whitney via the mountaineer's route. This year I'm doing Williamson and Tyndall.
What I find most interesting is how this thread is in position 89 with 38 points after only 2 hours.

There's some super heavy flagging going on to censor this whole thing.
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well, logging is now handled, so that's fun :)
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So now the GGers are mad and will probably boycott them or yell at their sponsors.

And the anti-GG, anti-harassment people are mad at them for hosting the others and then cancelling the good side... so they'll boycott and yell at the sponsors.

So instead of having neither group at no monetary cost, they found a way to have neither group and take a hit to their reputation and possibly pocket books.

And of course they didn't take a moral stand either way (which both sides likely see as a stand with their enemy).

Way to go SXSW. Playing with fire has a reputation for a reason.
I've been following the #GamerGate trainwreck for a while. #SavePoint seems to maybe be about improving gamer culture? I don't know. I've not seen #SavePoint before today.

For those who don't know, #GamerGate claimed to be about "journalistic ethics" when they were actually just harassing a women (and later other women) who said negative things about how women were treated in games. [1]

The #SavePoint group seems to be very explicitly against harassment of any kind, and at least gives lip service to freedom of expression of both game developers and critics. I don't know if this is just a facade, like the one previously worn by #GamerGate, or if this is the real deal. The #GamerGate tag is hopelessly associated with misogyny and harassment, so the fact that they want to use a new hashtag is actually a minor point in their favor.

But other than "gaming ethics," I'm not really sure what they exist to promote. And I'm not even sure what they mean any more by "gaming ethics," considering the initial #gamergate accusations were proven completely and utterly false. (Including outrage at an article on GamaSutra [2] that pissed off a bunch of "gamers" who completely misunderstood it. [3])

[1] http://gawker.com/what-is-gamergate-and-why-an-explainer-for...

[2] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_t...

[3] https://medium.com/plaguearist-does-gamergate/im-doing-this-...
Can OSM accept 3D laser scanner/cloud point data?
I don't think the big problem will be trying to get people to use the system.

I think the whole thing (especially with social networks) rides on just how hard they want to fight to keep their users' data off of other networks.

If, for example, Facebook decides to prevent other social networks from pulling user data off of Facebook, then I think that will in large part drive end users' desire to find alternatives.
Fair enough :) Writing well is hard, and I make plenty of my own mistakes.
Would be nice to indicate in the title that the article is about AMD's proprietary drivers, rather than the free software drivers in Mesa.
We implemented the first USSD bitcoin wallet in Kenya a couple of years ago.

USSD as a technology is good, but the biggest problem is access to the networks. If you think its hard dealing with App Stores you haven't tried dealing with MTOs.

In some countries you can deploy it nationwide, but in many in particular developing countries you need to make deals with every single MTO.

If they think you are competing with one of their services such as Mobile Money they will not let you on their network. In many other cases you will need to have a physical server in their server room.
You're one-off job is nothing to be holding up as an example of current web development. My company has 23 active clients and I can't tell you the last time, many years ago, we saw IE8 in the visitors logs much less anything less than that.
How is that different from employment "slavery"?
This was wildly inaccurate for me. I think it was wrong far more than it was right.
If you're interested in interactive media -- and you've had an account on Hacker News for 8+ years, so let's assume so -- then you really should have at least a passing understanding of how video games work. Both technically and creatively. And as businesses. It's a fascinating topic -- and arguably we're going through a bit of a golden age!

If you're just interested in making fun of nerds for liking video games... Again, you've had a Hacker News account for 8+ years. Might want to watch you you call "loser" for liking stuff related to technology.

(8+ years? Unless you first created your account when you were 10 years old, you're literally an adult who wrote the comment above. Wow!)
Well, originally, the female programmers of some videogames took some extreme harassment that was completely unacceptable.

The problem is that the original issue (that level of online harassment is simply not acceptable irrespective of gender and how do we stand against it) and the original victims are now long forgotten in preference to a bunch of new actors who are all about the "political theatre" of their supposed "cause".
Another chapter of the same book: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/minority.pdf
That doesn't make very much sense to me. It's not as if the "new dollars" are worth $1.02, while the "old dollars" are worth $1.00. Some people talk about "Cantillon Effects" in the context of QE, but it's a pretty fringe idea. The first-order effect is: banks are owed an amount of money denominated in nominal terms, and inflation will decrease the value of those debts. And even if this theory was true, inflation has been historically low (and below central-bank targets) for quite a few years, so whoever is pushing for higher inflation isn't very good at it.
But then invite anyone in the first place? This was all foreseeable. They're acting like this is coming out of nowhere.
Have you looked at Shopify Plus? Maybe reach a rep at the company for more info, but from the looks of it, the processing fee is 0%. What the monthly bill is, I don't know.

https://www.shopify.co.uk/plus
I wonder how someone could eat one of these without to puke.

Cooked creatures tend to taste very different from raw; and the more "extreme" the process (e.g. deep-frying), the more difference in taste.
> I didn't even know USSD existed.

Same here, I only learned about it recently because I work with pay-as-you-go solutions for 3rd world countries.

BTW: If anyone here has something to share about mobile payments I'd be happy to know, post it or contact me. Details are in my profile : )

Edit: words, contact info
The existence of a worse scenario for others does not make your scenario any better. There are many systems built to fuck people, and there is no shame in addressing the one that directly afflicts you.
I saw several sites pop up on the list of sites I visited that I'm quite sure I've never explicitly been to. It's possible these were all loaded via ads or some such thing, but it seems unlikely.
Two interesting things: 1) this predicts difficulty in controlling contractors and getting them to stick to schedules. It explains why taxis suck, homejoy struggled, and showcases that uber circumvented the entire issue of driver reliability by only doing on-demand rides. It also predicts that scheduled contractors will attempt to steal clients from the scheduling company (direct measurable profit impacting skill - you can't own them). Perhaps the on-demand service strategy that works requires either the use of employees or zero-scheduling/real-time request resolution.

2) As an employee, you must figure out how to measure your profit impact and consistently represent that metric as fact - socialize the idea that you have profit impact. You also want to figure out exactly how what you do and how you do it can increase or decrease profits: being the person who's able to both represent a meaningful metric and show how you've affected that metric, and how that metric should have affected the bottom line will make you the most valuable. If what you do does not impact profitability, then do something else.
A key part of slavery involves restriction of movement. You're generally free to emigrate wherever you feel like. Or stay where you are and join a commune. You'll be self-sufficient and not paying tax. It's not slavery if you can escape it by merely choosing to do something else.
Yes, and if you're running an older browser, then the webserver can provide arbitrary code that just reads the history directly. :)
Impressive work on Beacon. Definitely not "old business model" :)

That said I think you're undervaluing the potential of the OP. You say at [1] that one of the key things you've learned is that readers fund journalism because they care about having an impact. If successful, the approaches they're discussing could significantly increase the impact of journalists' work -- reusing the same Particles in different contexts, being able to provide multiple tailored versions of the same post that could resonate with different audiences, etc. And it also may point to ways for publishers to participate in and leverage the Buzzfeed/Facebook ecosystems while still providing additional value on their own sites/apps/publications.

So, agreed that it by itself isn't a business model solution, but don't write it off so quickly ...

[1] https://www.beaconreader.com/blog/beacon-immigration-3-milli...