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Why do we never see the phrase “TCP/IP made me smarter”?

Smart people and your active search for them made you smarter, not “Twitter”. You explained it yourself. If Twitter had some technology tuned to solve your specific task for a freshly registered user, it could take the credit, but it's neutral and indifferent.

Also, I can't see much difference between good ongoing conversation and a good conversation that happened thousand years ago. Part of the problem, as described in the article, is that Twitter “community” matured and generally switched from using it for transitory chirps to gathering and organizing knowledge for a long term somehow. And, as we all know, Twitter is horrible in that regard. Enormous planetary-scale log file without tools to parse it is a giant step backwards.
It's the same in india and since the employees were holding him to make him satify some claims it's an offence of even higher degree.
https://www.kaanoon.com/indian-law/ipc-348/

All the employees could still end up in jail for 3 years though its not likely.
It's a fair point. Do you know of any instances where landing fees have been abated by airport concessions? True, you might simply not see as steep of a rise, etc. (hard to see evidence of an offset) but it would be more in line if the airport simply took what they could get from both sides rather than seeing it as sort of a zero sum offset.
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That's pretty cool! Good tip.

I can't reply to the comment under this but this is HN feature. It's on top of this page right under the title.
It doesn't really matter that eyewitness testimony is unreliable, seeing as the vast majority of people will believe a witness' testimony over contradicting evidence.

Look up Dario Gabbai and what he says the color of cyanide-poisoned bodies was (blue), then look up the real color cyanide-poisoned bodies turn into (red).
A mediocre existence is no longer in Twitter's future. It's a massively overvalued public company now. There's no longer an opportunity for Twitter to take on Twilio's business model. Twitter can't pivot into a model that drops its market cap by an order of magnitude.
In that context, n is the number of items being dropped, not the length of the collection.
Sometimes the conspiracy theorists are right.
Lol. Good luck with that being an effective defense that costs you $0.

You'd need to record it on a machine of some kind. Which has legal consequences, notification requirements, etc.
Not just the law but also the powerful.

For instance, it was impossible at one stage to donate to Wikileaks by Credit Card or Paypal due to Senatorial Pressure on private business.
What possible difference could it make to your hygiene considering your hands are already dirty? The only way to have clean hands is to wash them.
Ever used a vending machine? Did it take your photo before dispensing your purchase? If not, congratulations; you enjoyed a completely legal, completely anonymous transaction.

If you have never read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, it is a 20-minutes-from-now sci-fi story that briefly explored the consequences involved in making people physically unable to break the law. Go ahead and read it. It's considered by some to be a classic in the same vein as 1984.

I consider it vitally important that there be some avenue by which a person can choose to break the law, even if there is only a miniscule likelihood of subsequently escaping punishment for it. Otherwise, the law becomes the iron collar around our necks, and those at the other end of the chain are able to drag us wherever they choose, just by rewriting the statutes.

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." --M.L. King Jr.
"Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it." --H. Zinn
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." --Aristotle
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so." --M. Gandhi
"...if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." -- H.D. Thoreau

How then will you engage in nonviolent civil disobedience when you find that you cannot break the law, even when throwing your whole strength against it? What will happen when every person who stands in protest vanishes into an oubliette the instant after they rise to their feet?

The impulse to stamp out crime so thoroughly as to make it practically impossible is an open invitation to the tyranny of the totalitarian police state. I much prefer the sort of society where people can choose between doing good and doing evil, by the measure of their own moral standard, over one where people are forced to obey the commandments of others.
3. They take up a small, consistent amount of space in a UI
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> Nicotine is basically a synonym for addictive.

the same is for caffeine, addiction hits at very low level of consumption :

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/BPRU/docs...

Now imagine if every cup of your coffee came with a spoon of asbestos mixed with cadmium and radon powder.

The problem with nicotine and its addiction isn't the nicotine or the addiction itself - they are basically harmless, like coffee.

The problem is that typical nicotine delivery method - tobacco cigarette - causes people to inhale whole slew of carcinogenic chemicals. The vaping eliminates all those bad factors thus converting a very harmful habit into a habit of mild relaxation (basically the only effect of low levels of nicotine). The best one thing a government can do right now to improve health of the nation (and decrease Medicare expenses) in near future is to give away the e-cigs everywhere where tobacco is sold.

To the Wikipedia link in the comment below - with all the respect to Wikipedia, my link above is from John Hopkins.
Compression wise I go for 256kbps AAC. It's quite superior to MP3 as a codec.
Dude you are not helping anyone here. This kind of tortured logic and aggression does nothing to improve the public perception that vapers are completely out of tune with the desires of those around them.

Full Disclosure: Vaper for 2 years & counting, I take that shit outside and keep it out of people's face.
Oh man, love it! Thanks for sharing...that Copeland theme though. :)
> Could i get a range? Since i'm oblivious to how agencies work

An agency charges as much as it can.

>>Educate an audience, whose businesses you can improve and that is able to pay you.

>Can you elaborate?

Blog, speak, present yourself as the go-to expert. Can be used both as inbound or outbound marketing. Doing outbound is much easier, when you provide some value, even without them hiring you.
I'm not sure I see why it's sexist, aside from the fact that it is tangentially related to gender.

Which is not to say it isn't, but I'd like to hear you explain/justify your claim that it is sexist.
Would love to learn more about how pot "seems to dull intelligence", do you have any sources?
The shorter links fit into smaller packets. Smaller packets consume less space on the wire, so you can cram more of them into the pipe and increase your bandwidth.

Sorry.

The answer is what you posted above as number 2.

But also, Before Twitter, and in the earlier days of the Internet people were not very good at creating sites with readable urls - so even if you were sending it in email it could be massive and not something anyone could easily dictate or type out. Link shorteners allowed for much easier method of sharing or even telling someone the link over voice or text.
>Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use the Banach-Tarski theorem."

Fuck. I wanted to ask for an explanation, describing what I thought before, but now I got it. :D Thanks for the joke!
Interesting, thanks for the heads up! I was invited to their original Alpha (before they called it Xamarin) years ago and I could have sworn it did not work like that back then. So I'm assuming it's either changes or I'm mistaken.
I feel comfortable with that comparison, yes. Neither nicotine nor caffeine are carcinogenic. Both are CVD risks in the quantities consumed by addicts; nicotine probably more so, but caffeine has other bad effects on GI health.

Downthread, you suggested you were unfamiliar with the notion of having a week of migraines from quitting coffee. I think what's happening here is that you're not very familiar with the downsides of serious coffee/caffeine habits, and that's why the comparison seems silly to you.

I don't think it's a silly comparison.
... appears to have been written by an economist. Is any other comment necessary?
"Caffeine addiction, or a pathological and compulsive form of use, has never been documented in humans." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_dependence
No expert, but I think they make money off the click itself, the impression being shown to the user while they are waiting for redirection to the destination, and in some controversial cases they add their affiliate IDs when the destination link is to an online merchant such as ebay and amazon.
This is in the context of a labor dispute. This is a tactic known as "gherao" or a Lock-in (vs a Lock-out)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout_%28industry%29#Lock-in
Wondering if an optional file list/tree could be on the left in window integration, similar to most other modern editors?

Other than that, all looks good!
First off, from the point of view of the linear theory of sound waves, you're plain wrong. Two waves of any frequencies will only interact additively in linear media -- so no low frequencies are created through their interaction (unless non-linear effects come into play, but those usually create higher, not lower, order harmonics afaik). Beating is merely an interpretation of a modulating wave, the reality is the Fourier spectrum.

Second, as far as I know our hearing is composed of linear excitation elements (they have a definite bandwidth), and this is confirmed pretty well by experiments with human hearing -- you can see the threshold of our hearing at about 20kHz and that we experience tones of different frequencies fairly independently. Those assumptions imply that two tones, one at e.g. 50kHz and another at 50.001kHz are inaudible, end of story.

You can actually do this experiment yourself if you have a signal generator that can do 1Hz amplitude modulation and drive a transducer with a non-negligible sensitivity in that range.
> Enormous planetary-scale log file without tools to parse it is a giant step backwards.

Certainly an exaggeration. The recording of the log file is itself a massive step forward. The tools can come later.
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SAP by any chance? I remember that being part of a SAP partner hosting pitch a few years back.
Former smoker turned (former) vaper here. Not everyone who vapes is that inconsiderate, but I will acknowledge that there are many who subtly attempt to create confrontation by blowing it in peoples faces like it's no big deal. They want you to give them an excuse to rant about how "safe it is."

I'm not going to argue that it's healthy or harmless, but I can guarantee you that it is less harmful than smoking. After switching to a vape my cilia healed, I had better lung capacity, my gums stopped swelling, and my sense of smell and taste returned to normal. Vaping also allows you to control the amount of nicotine you consume, so you can slowly decrease the amount and ween yourself off of it once and for all which is what I did.

This is a big public health issue. E-cigs are one of the most effective methods for quitting altogether and they're about to ban it; that should be an outrage.
The janitor gets water from a wall mounted faucet or from the sink in the janitor's closet to clean the urinals, the capped off pipe above the urinal does nothing except make the installation more expensive.

At one new building I worked in, they had to put in standard water based urinals to pass inspection then replaced them with waterless urinals for their LEED certification -- presumably now the codes allow for waterless urinals, but apparently still require the plumbing.
Propylene glycol? That doesn't sound good: https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/19870.htm

>"Skin: In case of contact, flush skin with plenty of water."

>"Inhalation: If inhaled, remove to fresh air. If not breathing, give artificial respiration."

I remember in the mid-1990's, there were many articles pointing the finger at propylene glycol in personal care products for increasing cancer rates. Even to this day I use Thai salt for deodorant as I don't want to be slathering propylene glycol all over me.

I quick google search for 'propylene glycol' doesn't turn up too much for health risks. But still, I don't want the stuff touching, and I wouldn't want it in my lungs either....

Edit: and to the down voters, I am not anti-vape or anti tobacco. I think both are pretty cool. But as a neat freak, I don't want all my stuff smelling like smoke. And as a health conscious person, I don't want my last days on this earth ending with me on a hospital bed gasping for air from a failed respiratory system.
True, but it's 24k a year because it's the industry standard in the same way a TI-84 is 100 bucks in 2015.
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Maybe it would be best to have a lot of these things we think of as "string" functions available on arrays, like sub-sequence matching, replacement, trimming, even something like regex. Then strings can be "all that, plus unicode."
Windows is doing a lot of work using their hypervisor to secure parts of the kernel -- This talk from Blackhat 2015 has some really cool details: http://www.alex-ionescu.com/blackhat2015.pdf
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"Spooning is the worst."

No, Slate, you are the worst.
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Dangerous prisoners can be physically isolated from others with bars, but they can be left to talk to others through the bars rather than cutting them off socially.
Yeah, it's not good. I think Twitter would do well to not hurt users with things like that. Use the restraint of UI to keep people's posts small. It's difficult to type a screed into a single-line textbox. But get rid of any actual character limit at all.
Handles on urinals are very rare round here, and cleaners reasonably common, so I think I'm OK :)
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While it's a nice thought that 'it just takes a good idea' but that's patently false. Social networks are heavily effected by network effects (what a surprise?). Additionally, while I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but an idea without execution is beyond worthless. Social networks are extra difficult because there isn't much to drive most people off of one unless all their friends also move.
It's across the board in technology mainly. Tableau was beaten down pretty badly until they recently made the case all too obvious they're ripping the cover off the ball.

Other names like Hortonworks (at IPO level today) and New Relic (great quarter, improved guidance but smacked down today) have had better than expected results and are not getting much love from the public markets.

If software was truly in a bubble we'd see biotech prices in the public markets where companies like Stripe would be valued at 12 billion right now.

I think it's a good time to begin collecting long term positions in some of these small cap tech companies that have been offering IPO's as they may not be "cheap" but they are massive growth stories and certainly and bubbly.

Some names have done well though like Tableau and Palo Alto Networks. It's a mixed bag.
I'm aware that caffeine can be psychologically addictive (just as anything habitual can be) and that there are physical withdrawal symptoms for some heavy users, but those symptoms last only around a week.

Ultimately, anybody can choose to stop drinking coffee at any time. I know people who have tried to make that choice with nicotine and failed repeatedly.
> The entrepreneurial hacker and the MIT-style hacker are two different beasts

subtle reference to https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
This is true. HDTracks.com offers one of the Green Day records with no mastering compression.

Yes, it has much more dynamic range, but it sounds wrong. Compression basically emulates what our ears naturally do when hearing very loud material, so compression gives one the feeling that the music is LOUD.
It's a common misconception that vinyl necessarily imparts all possible audio benefits to whatever is pressed into it.

Now, I'm not Gaga's recording engineer, and for all I know you're absolutely right and her & her team remastered each track without compression for the vinyl pressing. Considering how rare such a process is in industry recording, however, I doubt it. I assume that really the difference you're hearing is typical of all vinyl recordings: a type of distortion that comes from both pressing and playback through an RIAA preamplifier.

People use all sorts of terms to describe the difference between vinyl & digital sound, but mostly descriptors center around words like "warmer," or "more open" or "brighter." These are really just beneficial side-effects of the standards developed to overcome vinyl's limitations as a recording medium.

So, in reality quality and compression come in to play long before the pressing actually occurs, on the mastered track itself. I've come to realize that a poorly handled transfer to vinyl will often sound not nearly as clear or detailed as a high-res or even "Mastered for iTunes" track.
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OS/2: decent OS, ahead of Windows for awhile, but IBM was never going to go to the mattresses enough to get it the install base it would need to compete with Windows. IBM's dysfunctional PC division didn't help. It would have been nice if IBM kept OS/2 up as a specialty operating system, but I think the overhead costs were too much and Gerstner was, by 1996-1997, very much in a kill-anything-that-isn't profitable mode.

Prior to Gerstner, IBM had a variety of esoteric products which were solely designed as loss leaders, never earned a profit, and relied on subsidies by other parts of the company to stay alive. Post 1993, really starting in 1994-1995 these got killed off or sold off, rapidly.

It wasn't enough to break even, one number I recall being thrown around was that we had to get to a 12% Expense-to-Revenue ratio, ignoring SG&A which was a corporate-wide number. Growth products, products in new markets were exempted entirely or given better targets, but old-line products were held to this magical 12% ratio (I was in the mainframe division at the time, which was grotesquely profitable and even today subsidizes much of the rest of IBM).
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How would this not count as interfering with its operation? The article says that this could count as a federal offense, even for police officers..
They are thankfully rare and unpredictable, but always a psychological consideration. I also don't think I'm the only one who questions the sanitation of what is left behind by others.
It looks like they were part of a Freedom of Information Act request.
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The two pictures don't have the same vertical scaling, and it's clear that the probe is ahead of the LPF in the signal chain.
That is actually a very good idea!
Sorry for not being clear. The law would say that it's a criminal act. But law is only words on paper, on the word, it is the sensibilities of the people that gives law its force.

Most people here would condemn the founder and think the gang was justified in bullying the founder. Take a look at any comment thread.

Hence law is of no effect.
I wash my hands after using the bathroom.
SiruisXM satellite radio is probably the worst offender. Makes music unlistenable to me.

Even 128Kbps MP3s render cymbals better.
I vaped for over a year starting last summer. Over that year I was able to gradually decrease the amount of nicotine in my juice. A few months back I switched to nicotine free juice (Which oddly enough, is exactly the same thing as a fog machine..which I don't really see anyone complaining about.) Anyways I haven't vaped for a month now.. and don't really feel the need to. Bottom line is vaping allowed me to quit smoking and it only cost me half my face. Of course I am just kidding about the half a face thing.... "exploding in peoples faces" ,LOL!! ...let's ban swimming because of shark attacks!
Having made the same choice and taking time off after my child was born, I totally understand. Thanks Garry!

Although I then went and started a startup, so I guess slightly different. :) Turns out starting the startup has actually given me a lot of time to spend with the kid since I work from home! Hint hint. ;)
That is a ridiculous hyperbole, haha. I'm rolling my eyes.

I can justify: I do not have to 'actively' go out to seek for information that I might be interesting/relevant to me: it comes to me. It's better than reddit because I see posts only by people vetted by me, so that's my 'filter'.It's better than email, because it's open conversation, and it's better than RSS because it's a 'social-network'. The network effect brings in the 'celebrities' (or, cool people, as I see it)

Yeah, twitter search sx ba*s. I'm hoping they make an agreement w google to figure out some sort of indexing. Regardless, it's pretty nifty. Highly recommend. Specially considering a lot of academic CS celebrities seem to be active there. (I do not come from SV eng background, so it might be a different community.)
I'm not sure I follow that chain of logic. This information is collected for the purpose of "national security". Most people seem to be ok with that. If that information is used for another purpose, why can't they start complaining then?
From articles and interviews about the health effects of vaping, I've gathered that there are basically two distinct groups of people: 1) ordinary people, who hold views ranging from skepticism to enthusiasm, and 2) anti-smoking activists who are sure that vaping is as bad as smoking, no matter what.

The extreme anti-tobacco people don't believe in harm reduction. They also battle snus, which is far healthier than smoking and is probably far less harmful than other forms of "chewing tobacco" due to the way it's processed. Rather than seeing fewer health problems from tobacco related products, these people would will stand on principle while people continue to smoke.
When Linus says "To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything else that is also important!"

I believe him, but now I'm not so sure anymore with this article. This is a very disconcerting about the linux kernel, I'm totally freaked out by this article. I didn't realize that the state of security with linux has come to this.

My first linux distro was redhat 2.0. And now after almost 20 some years of using linux, I'm now going to have to switch back to Microsaft Windows!
Most of the flavorings in vaping juice are just the stuff that's added to food for the same flavors. In fact, most of it is sold to be used in food products. Some exotic flavors differ, but mostly its just food flavorings. So how does this differ from using flavored oils in a cooking pan?
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