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I don't understand - a white supremacist took a quantity from the DOJ, then took a percentage from the DOJ, and multiplied them together to get a new quantity. Does multiplication become invalid when a white supremacist does it? Or do DOJ stats become false when a racist cites them?

Please, I would like to understand your logic.

I do find it a bit scary that when I google "black on white crime", only racist sites show up. Why are only white supremacists willing to discuss this data? (Or perhaps they are all just super good at SEO.)
The fact that you are being(edit: was) downvoted for constructive opinion shows unwarranted prejudice of HN hivemind towards web technologies. HN discussions on this topic are effectively useless, any constructive truth finding is drowned.

edit: I'll take my downvotes with pleasure. The fact that I am able to use Atom or Nylas N1 or Nuclide on linux with 0 problems alone is enough to welcome proliferation of web tech on desktop.
Thanks, that looks like really solid evidence for intentionally blocking them. I see no way to explain this than anything but an attempt to block their competitor.

I still think this will result in more publicity for Telegram than all the messages that are blocked.
We shouldn't and don't. In fact, if someone is making you feel unsafe at work (especially if it's because of your gender, race, etc), HR has a responsibility to address it.
Apache Flex has seen more success than I expected it too. The Mailing list traffic makes it one of the busiest projects in the Apache Foundation and it has had 7 major releases [if I'm counting right] since it got donated.

I wasn't aware of any bugs in new releases; but I know lots of legacy bugs have been fixed; plus lots of new components and other code has been donated.

Its ties to Adobe Flash Player may be an albatross, but the FlexJS project has done impressive things.

[Disclaimer: I am an Apache Flex PMC Member and all this is my opinion/perception; I do not speak on behalf of the Apache Foundation or the Apache Flex PMC]
I still get mad when people talk bad about Fortran and replacing the code with some slow solution. The power of CPU and cheap RAM has caused the world to favor the hand holding of developers.
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This depends on you talking about national debt or private debt. For national debt, the dynamic you describe holds true. But for private (households, companies) debt it does not as they do not have the capacity to create new money.
"No connection between RDF and XML" is definitely not true.

(1) RDF uses the XSD types for literals, and (2) you can turn an XML document very directly into an RDF graph with interconnected nodes.

Once you have done that you can go to "plain" RDF with simple production rules instead of insanely complex XSLT. That is, 250 lines of XSLT goes down to 10 lines worth of rules.
yeah, sure...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-c...
Its a virulent meme parasite that has as a necessary characteristic of its existence, internet based social media. Its a societal sickness or illness.

Much like you can't have the historical black plague without the specific species of flea that live on a specific species of urban rat, you can't have SJWs without social media.
Agreed, that is why I said I wasn't disagreeing with the OP.

My concern is that silly things which people do, like say complaining about being made to feel guilty, will be used to paint safe spaces as 'silly' or 'unnecessary' when in fact safe spaces provide a very valuable function.
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I don't think there's anything ironic with that. Empathy doesn't mean that you automatically just give the other person what they think they want. If a kid is screaming because they REALLY want to buy a sweet and their parents refuse to buy it, it doesn't mean that the parent lacks empathy for their child.

When people use the "toughen up" approach, it isn't necessarily the case that they have no empathy. Maybe they know it's a difficult phase to get through, but that a painful short term personal or mental change can result in a person have a long term improved quality of life.

Or it could just be that they don't care and like to see those they perceive as "weak" suffer. Hard to say.
This is very true, and kinda makes this product already seem obsolete if I can code in my favorite IDE instead starting this massive load of crap up. I don't think HTML5 needs an IDE such as this.

Flash was a wonderful way to learn about object oriented programming because you could literally draw an object and add code to it, as you described.

However, I think controlling objects appearances with CSS instead of the IDE or direct code that is mixed with other ActionScript is what finally converted me away from Flash.

The new CSS3 features were too good to pass up especially if I could use them for free and with any text editor.
You better redirect tee to /dev/null otherwise your terminal is going to print out that whole file.
So then we agree that they should have also provided a percentage along side the (meaningless without context) absolute value.

But my point was about articles in general that do these sort of absolute value comparisons without providing any context, which is what I wrote.
Aren't they valuing the idea in this case? If they thought there was no risk of someone stealing the idea then why keep it quiet?
Living in Asia, I've seen a lot more news about "white males shooting up schools" than I have about other violent crime in the US, except perhaps police brutality. It's on major news pages / channels. Admittedly, most of what I find is through social media (US and Chinese).

Where do you get most your news?
I have to say that I was skeptical about your approach of a formal checklist for evaluating ideas. But your checklist is indeed excellent, and did make me evaluate the idea I'm currently working on on several angles that I've never thought before. (Got 11, I think, but it's hard to be sure about some points. I'll only really know once I don't need the list anymore...)

That said, it's not good as a checklist. Some items are clearly more important than others, and a strong negative on some are enough to push an idea into bad, despite good results elsewhere.
Whatsapp (facebook) is not the only the only company keen on censoring.

Airbnb chat also censors messages. Typically when you try to give your number or whatsapp or some link.
Talk to /u/aninhumer about better alternatives and the difficulty of getting them adopted.
I use both whatsapp and telegram.. with whatsapp being the majority of my messaging, I'd been a little apprehensive since the facebook takeover, but haven't changed my usage habits. This was exactly what it took for me to start pushing my friends to telegram.
You also forget:

- There are far fewer native components, leaving accessibility down to the developer of the app and making it nonexistant.

- Platform integration is impossible, which means there is no way for the framework, for example, to create widgets differently on OS X, Windows or Linux (these platforms have many different conventions)

- Theming globally becomes impossible. If you want to write a dark theme for your desktop, you go from writing a theme once for GTK and once for Qt to once for each and every app you run. Uuuurgh.

But only supporting one rendering engine, yay! Much better than the 6 different engines we have to support in Qt (huh?).

And having access to all the latest JS additions! ... that were copied from other languages you could develop desktop apps in, because JS is a terrible hack.

And relying on native Node.js modules, yay! As opposed to native modules for literally every other better language out there.

I'm not sure what you're actually comparing this workflow to. Maybe one day writing HTML apps will be great, but today is not that day. Today, writing HTML apps is only beginning to be an idea that doesn't completely suck. But for the user, it does massively suck. Massive apps that ship their own copy of webkit/blink/whathaveyou, with security flaws that won't get patched, disgusting performance on low-end hardware, atrocious battery usage and decades of UX knowledge thrown out of the window just because the app developer doesn't have the knowledge to see it.

I don't look forward to this. And I'm younger than you.
> - You only have to support one rendering engine. - You have access to the latest Web Components/ES6/CSS3 features. - You can rely on native Node.js modules when needed.

So, developer convenience trumps user experience? Who cares about your battery run time, how hot your PC runs, the bandwidth overhead, the massive attack surface from all the useless components shipped, how badly the webapp integrates into your OS, as long as we can ship faster and faster?
That doesn't seem to change how ridiculous it sounds, does it?
The only difference between ideas and execution is scale. When people say execution is more important than ideas what they're really saying is that the small-scale ideas are more valuable than large-scale ideas. Having a bunch of really good small ideas for how to implement something successfully tends to be more important than having an insprining idea about what the thing is and how it fits into the arc of human history.

For example, "a new form of higher education that is cheap and accessible to everyone" is a large-scale, low-value idea. But specific ideas about, say, how to incentivise retired professionals to mentor students can be really valuable. I think this is reflected in the fact that startups love to talk about their big ideas but very tight lipped about their tactics. Tactics are still ideas, just on a small scale.

When people talk about execution being what's most important they aren't talking about hard work - that's a given. They're talking about all the small-scale tactical ideas that companies have to wrestle with every day. Startups that failed due to poor execution of a good idea typically worked just as hard and put just much hustle into everything as their more successful competitors. But they followed a lot of bad small ideas that added up to a bad overall outcome.
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I'll add to your list with htop. Its a little nicer than plain ole top.
"Nowadays, it is true, we are made so sensitive by the raving crowd of flatterers that we cry out that we are stung as soon as we meet with disapproval. When we cannot ward off the truth with any other pretext, we flee from it by ascribing it to a fierce temper, impatience, and immodesty." - Martin Luther, 1520!

Perhaps not so new, Twitter was just slower in the 1500's.
> We're dealing with human beings, so I didn't read your JSON analogy, sorry.

Unreliable, unpredictable, illogical, making no sense and you never has exact idea which rules they obey at the moment and what output they will generate.

So human beings indeed sound like Javascript or PHP ... [1]

[1] 10 years experience with php and JS.
Employers need to support their employees conducting basic biological functions, such as completing their biological life cycle.

Volunteering in a literacy program is laudable, but it is not on par with completing your life cycle.
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It's still a scripting language, and you still can't write an OS in it. There's no low-level access to the hardware. You could of course write all the low level parts in C, but then you haven't written an OS in JavaScript.
You have a good point too. I was being mildly facetious. Nothing guarantees you'll see the exact ads that represent a conflict of interest while you read a given article, after all. An explicit disclosure would be nice. Not only to ensure you know the conflict of interest is there, but to show that the publisher understands that it exists too.
Because someone somewhere will use the framework and legal precedents you create to eliminate other behavior. Which may happen to be behavior you approve of.
On the other hand that makes it indestingishable from encrypted data. What is worse?

"Give us the encryption keys" "It's not encrypted, I used /dev/urandom" vs "Yes, I wiped it"
> It worked like HTML, but was nonstandard.

Being nonstandard is completely irrelevant here. Firefox's UI doesn't need to be rendered by Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.
Isn't what you are protecting in this case the idea? If you just want to focus on building the product you don't need to be in stealth mode. It is only if you are worried about some exploiting your idea do you keep quiet.
> Even a short for a nanosecond can cause irreversible damage.

Jumped out at me. 1 nanosecond is 10-9 second, assuming two switching elements with a 10 Ohm RDSON connected to the rails (probably on the low side, such small elements usually have a rather high ON resistance) that's a 20 Ohm series resistance on 3.3V causing assuming an instantaneous rise (which it won't be) which leaves you with about 0.5 nano-Joule of energy spread out over two locations. That's an extremely small amount of energy to be able to cause damage, surprising!
> An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is supposed to make you feel guilty.

Maybe that's not quite "you're a bad person". But I feel like your reading is missing the "you should feel bad" aspect.

That chapter resonates with me too, because it's pretty much exactly the sentiment I'm disagreeing with. Supposedly it doesn't matter what you do, it matters what you feel.

No, that's exactly wrong. If you do the right thing, that's good. If you do the wrong thing, that's bad. It doesn't matter what you were feeling when you did it.

Love makes people do some really shitty things. "I love you and I want you to not go to hell, so I'm going to beat the gay out of you", for example. That love is genuine, and it doesn't redeem the action.

The opposite is true as well, where people do good while hating it every minute. (No good example comes immediately to mind, and I'm spending too long on this post.) They don't lose points for having unvirtuous emotions. They did good, and that's enough.
Sad to hear, Thunderbird has been my major and actually sole email client for a few years, not a Windows user so outlook is out, do I have to use mutt from now on?

On Android I use K-9 which works well, it seems for Desktop the web email will be my only choice, not good at all.
>So when the crappy HTML Firefox shows up, with way less features than the Firefox of today, remember that this (Thunderbird) was one of the things given up to have it.

Please recall that Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was born as a lightweight, fast alternative to the bloat of Netscape Communicator/Mozilla Suite. Dropping features from an old bloated application is what launched Firefox to fame in the first place.
Not in the least.
Except, in this scenario, the cab driver is OKWU and the new york times is also OWKU.

It's reasonable for OWKU to make this announcement. They are laying out their expectations for their student body. It is inconvenient but students who dislike their position are free to transfer.

OWKU is a private institution and also a religious one (even greater protection). They are well within their means and rights.

I'm starting to think that feelings are being hurt on HN; hence all the controversy.
In the case of a partial erasure (eg, maybe someone disconnected the power during the write, to stop the write from completing), I guess it would make it harder to prove someone had tried to erase (and therefore possibly hide/destroy) information.
jwz doesn't like HN.
I like to replace the phrase "politically correct" with "respectful treatment of individuals" or "empathy".
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> It is finding those ideas that I can do with my resources and I can make money off that is really, really hard.

Then maybe you need better resources?
What I find interesting here is to evaluate exactly how great your idea was compared to that of your competitors.

It sounds like in your case, what made the idea good was not so much the product itself, but applying it to the right niche (product-market fit in modern startup parlance), possibly at the right time.

So maybe your idea wasn't so great after all?

I find it very common to hear people say "people made money off of my idea": that means people don't consider market timing or marketing to be part of the idea. Isn't that odd?

I guess that comes from "ideas" living on a spectrum from a vague "AirBnB for X" to a fully baked narrative that includes a very precise vision (not that that's what ends up being executed in the end). You hear a lot of the former, very few of the latter.
And honestly, I'm fine with that. Universities are for learning, and real learning comes from doing. The questions the students were grappling with are real ones. I expect they misapplied them here, as the yoga traditions I'm familiar with are mostly conscious Indian exports, their effort to share something with the world. But students should frequently get things wrong, because that's how real learning happens.
You're supposed to overwrite the entire disc.

And random data is very easy to see.

The people who propose using multiple overwrites are clear that they're talking about making it harder to recover bits. (They're wrong, but it's what they say.)
Yup, UK doesn't do hypothecated taxes. In any case, if they do this correctly it should be revenue neutral because the only possible justification for this - the one used by all the public health activists - is there are negative externalities which need to be compensated for, which makes this a Pigouvian tax [0] and PTs are supposed to be revenue neutral (though see the wiki for the huge amount of complications in making this so).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
What the hell? Educating people on healthy eating is Orwellian? How...
Oklahoma Wesleyan is an "evangelical Christian university," and if it's anything like the other evangelical universities I'm aware of, it's not much better than a daycare. Institutions like this exist to isolate their students from the dangerous "secular" ideas they might pick up at a normal university. And many of the students going there, are there because their parents have refused to pay for a normal university. A friend of mine went to one of these institutions, and reported that one of the mandatory classes was a semester-long course in creationism.

Needless to say, I find this article pretty rich.
>Reading up on the capabilities of early mainframes is eye-opening if you (like me) grew up on Pentiums.

Close enough... I grew up on XTs, i286, i386, so on :) All of them way weaker than my phone (Not sure if that was what you were referring to).

However, in terms of architecture, algorithms, programming language features... It feels like we haven't advanced too much. Actually, the opposite... we are encourage now to do not be too clever on programming because processing power and memory usage is close to be a commodity and clean code is more important (which is fine but less fun).
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Which would be a ton of cash for most applications, but this is a web browser and they are in direct competition with not just one, but several, of the biggest companies in the world. Here are their 2014 revenues: $86 billion (MS), $182 billion, $66 billion. Budgets for the other browsers aren't clearly defined, but we do know it's a big focus for all the manufacturers and they each have major incentives to keep users inside their own ecosystem.

Even just keeping up with all the standards, and contributing to them, is an enormous undertaking at this point in the web's evolution. Let alone UI design, devtools, porting to mobile OSs, etc.
but they had to know that people would go dig through the sourcecode and find out that it was not just some random glitch, but a deliberate action on their part
It is fairly safe to assume that if you have an idea, so do others. But idea+validation: that's already another step. So you try to protect that combination to stave off the inevitable Samwer brothers clone. And even then, the first three weeks out of the gate had better be longer than it takes to get a clone MVP up and running.
I have used https://www.getharvest.com/ some years back with limited number of clients. For free that is! I think they still offer the free plan.
Funny thing: when I send 'https://telegram.org' the receiver got it as a hyperlink. But on my phone it remain in plain text.

(I just tried with my colleague)
Furthermore, I don't believe they outright cancelled it, but they suspended it temporarily to look into whether or not they should cancel it.

Still ridiculous, but less so than it's being represented as.
I suspect there are very few programmers who want to click a Copy button on a toolbar with a mouse. Those sorts of tools should be hidden by default, at the very least.
I spent a good deal of time dealing with XUL, heck I even helped with the French community. Designing UI was a ton more robust with it than with HTML, but XULrunner was (and still is from what I saw) not the most pleasant beast to run.

I'm not advocating a rewrite for the sake of novelty, but they're part of a product life cycle.

You mentioned that it would mean dropping some features. I think that's a good thing; an opportunity to cut the fat and make sure only what is proven and useful makes its way back into Firefox.

You seem to think volunteers won't pick up the maintenance of Thunderbird; if so then why should Mozilla care about it?

Now, I don't think HTML, CSS and JS are the best technologies. They each suck in their own way. But they are winning, and Mozilla is merely embracing that.
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Daniel Dennett refers to this as Rapoports rule.

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.
You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapo...
The 233GB is VIRT, meaning virtual memory. It need not all be backed by physical memory. For example, if you mmap a file, and then access only a small portion.

The RES column shows how much memory is resident (eg, currently backed by physical memory), and that is a much more reasonable 12GB.
I conclude that he didn't address the student personally and directly with this message from the fact that he expressly framed the public response as a message intended for that student as well as others, rather than a public recitation for others of a message he had delivered to the complaining student in person.