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I am on HN since many years, a user just recently. I was not implying that HN turns in to Reddit. I was implying that this comment is worthy Reddit, not HackerNews - a professional website that strives to hold on to some standards.

I have read the guidelines. Really.
I don't want consistent behavior everywhere; I want contextual behavior. In an English text, cursor should stop at different locations than in a programming language.

In other words, the default algorithm used by a all-purpose editor (Notepad) is "don't offend too many users too much", not "we know that users are using this editing control for code, hence movement to underscores".
how does it compare to https://mattermark.com/pricing/

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It doesn't matter if you can do it once. You have to do it consistently over years, which is not possible. I know about Renaissance Technologies, but I suspect they have insider information or some other angle and it's not all about their algorithms.
It turns out to be really hard to have a medium that A: allows people you have not whitelisted in a advance to contact you and also B: prevents intelligent adversaries from abusing that.

There are numerous examples of this: The phone system, the email system, any large IM system that gets beyond a certain size, the physical mail system (reigned in by charges there, though), social networks...

It would be easy if the adversaries were not actively using their intelligence to get around whatever solution you think might work. If all the spam phone calls came from the same number, which never moved or changed, this would be easy. But even before you account for the unauthenticated nature of caller ID that allows spammers to trivially forge any number they'd like, the mere fact that they're willing and able to buy up large blocks of numbers and would switch them around a lot would make this a difficult problem. Stopping intelligent, adaptive adversaries willing to dedicate time and resources to this is a very hard problem.

You can also attack this problem by trying to hit the first clause I gave, but that creates a very different kind of system. And in general, you need some sort of system that you don't have to prewhitelist people, so that your doctor can call you even though you didn't whitelist them, etc.
My argument to that would be simply that you are wrong.

A new page is the correct UX design choice and with HTML5 features can make the experience seamless and far less jarring than a modal that needs heaps of testing to get right across all browsers and screen forms.

But that was essentially my original point. Modals, when used by sign up to spam are annoying. When used to do anything else they're essentially trying to replicate a desktop experience that quite frankly isn't required of a website - even on "web 2.0" or full on web applications.

Also, please link an example of a modal done well across all browsers / screen sizes. I simply have never seen one in the wild that works better than an inline page element would have.
Please don't do this. I probably receive about 150-200 cold emails a day from various sales reps and I generally despise them all.

It should cost like, $0.10 to send an email to someone who isn't two-way authorized with you to disincentivize this sort of crap.
interesting use case for super small performant applications. Can you give us a screenshot it would be nice to see it in the wild.
I would love to offer my support against misogyny and harassment in technology but I'm frankly terrified of saying the wrong thing and being vilified for it. This is such a sensitive subject that saying nothing is safer than saying anything, even words of support.
weird i prefer the one on the left every single time..
It should be logged as a warning but I don't think it should throw. Throwing obviously stops execution which is unlikely what the programmer intended. Javascript is, for better or worse, a permissive language. It doesn't like to break code when it doesn't have to.
What if OP purchased a copy of that day's paper?
That's a shame, since once you understand it it really is beautiful.
`testparm` for Samba.
Yep. Even as an avowed extrovert, I have switched my default ringtone to silent.
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> Many developers are surprised to learn that simply adding an empty touch handler to their document can have a significant negative impact on scroll performance.

Maybe browsers could do some static analysis for the simple cases?

Or, would it be possible to fire all events asynchronously, and if the event cancels scrolling, revert the scroll position to where it was when the event happened? (And possibly mark the event handler as canceling scrolling.) That could sometimes cause jankiness when scrolling is canceled, in exchange for smooth scrolling in other cases.
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is there 1 service that will allow me to buy and track all major ICOs ?
For my site, I created a Pelican theme which is HTML-only. There's no JS at all! I plan on publishing the theme eventually, once I'm a bit happier with it. You can see it at https://brashear.me. I'm very happy with how quickly it loads. I mentioned to one of my friends that it feels like upgrading to DSL back in the dial-up days.

If you very badly want to rip off the theme, it's stealable from my GitHub copy of my site: https://github.com/KeenRivals/brashear.me/tree/master/themes...
How is expressing your individuality incompatible with good writing?
Ah yes, the well-worn 'people have always been complaining about things getting worse' rebuttal.. But your argument is flawed - just because it might not always have been true does not mean it is not true now. As I said, I'm inclined to believe those at the chalkface. Here's one reference I was able to find easily: https://www.bjupress.com/resources/articles/t2t/declining-li...
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It is not, <text> is picked up by screen-readers without any issue.
In brief, our product includes a web-based process flow component, typical nodes-and-edges kind of thing. Much better done with SVG IMHO, with first-class support for box & line modelling and styling. But the powers-that-be decreed we'd do it all in HTML & CSS.
Sells/leases.
I'm thinking that maybe event listeners should be passive by default.
But we're all out of DeLoreans...
In terms of making finance available to the impoverished, this does nothing. It's just marketing.

0) Biggest barrier is probably TX fees which range from cents to $5 per transaction. (see argument down thread for arguments over how much).
1) you still need a network connection to send payments.
2) Given that connection, you can query for proofs a TX was included in a block fairly cheaply.

Anyone interested in an actual payment system for developing world that works without networking should look at DigiTally [0]which has seen some real world usage, works with sim cards and feature phones, and does not require a network connection

The satellite does lower the bandwidth costs of operating a node, since block distribution is literally a broadcast network. Its cool. But beyond the marketing angle, I am lost as to why Blockstream chose to do this now.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kabhb2/papers/DigiTally_SOUPS2017.... …
Those aircraft carriers looked absolutely nothing like the ones from today. They were basically mostly normal ships with a flat top, thanks to the fact that they didn't have to deal with jets. Propeller planes needed no takeoff catapults and no landing hooks.
You were making a great point until you dropped sheeple in there.
Exactly my reaction. That's corruption.
I can't see how that was written with a straight face by a lawyer. If the average ticket price for an AMC movie is $9.33 how I will be "disappointed" for getting unlimited monthly movies for $10/mo. AMC sure has a lot of fake concern for someone else's business model. Really this is about control, not concern for consumers.
Exactly. People seem to get confused easily about what "discussion" means. Discussion requires real interaction between humans with different views.

It doesn't seem like Damore really tried to do that. His apparent goal with the "memo" was to change the policy of his company.

So much of philosophy is really just identity politics disguised as rational inquiry.
Can you comment more about the cure for bipolar disorder?
"Many hires were put through a revamped training program, then charged with winning over startups and small businesses that Oracle largely had bypassed."

The article goes on to claim that Oracle has had success with signing startups and small businesses for cloud products. Has anyone here signed on with Oracle? Have things really changed?
It is not a big problem to make DRAM on pretty much every SOI process, just power consumption and refresh rates will have to be quite big.

The problem with MRAM is unreliable reads, they are excellent for low clock speed devices, but as you go into gigahertz range, signal quality of an mram cell begins to degrade, and you have to put a darlington on top of it, or a bicmos transistor, thus negating its cell size advantage
You answered - you're on a shorter list, congrats. Doubt no more.

I block numbers on my Android and my landline phone has a one button screening function.
Most people buying a laptop don't really care or know what generation of the CPU they have. Not convinced it hugely impacts sales
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lots of svg elements animated in conjunction will surely have a negative performance impact. At work we created a mind mapping tool, in where every node has events (drag, click, raggin, dragend, contextmenu, etc). After 200+ nodes the performance hit was very high. We had to stop redrawing the whole graph after every interaction. What a bummer.
> I am saying that affirmative action = lowering the bar either directly or indirectly and there is no way around that fact (at least industry wise, you can maybe sustain it locally if you are ok with others skewing their ratio in the other direction).

So it implies lowering the bar unless it doesn't.

Companies can put more effort into finding woman candidates without caring whether the whole industry does so. If some companies bias toward women (without lowering the bar), and some companies don't bias, then the overall effect is that qualified women can get hired instantly, and more of them might be encouraged to enter the industry.
If you don't have GR, you aren't going to do gravity maps (because you have no reason to think you need them).

Without that, you don't have much opportunity to discover the basis of the correction (which, as others have pointed out, is just discovering GR, anyway.)
Apart from say the bit where he said women couldn't cope with stressful jobs as well as men and that's part of why they're underrepresented at Google i.e. the bit about neuroticism, that I was talking about.
> Going back and reading it now, it's hard to believe such a seemingly harmless claim (women aren't as well represented in tech because they're not as interested in it) has created such outrage.

It is only hard to believe if you are entirely unfamiliar with the history of this discussion.

Let's take a more obvious example: the common racist claim that black people are lazy. It is possible to dress this up in neutral, scientific-sounding language. Someone ignorant of the history of racism in America could be fooled into saying, "Gosh, we should consider that as an explanation for why tech is disproportionately white." (That someone could harbor racial bias, but that need not be true.)

That would correctly generate outrage, because a) one should not be ignorant about the history of these things when jumping into a discussion with such impact on people's lives, and b) there is a long, long history of virulent racists edging their way into the mainstream by dressing up their prejudices just enough to sound reasonable to the ignorant.

Returning to Damore, the fact that a bunch of white men ignorant of the history of gender bias can't spot the patterns does not mean the patterns aren't there. The benefit of the doubt only applies to educated doubt, not the doubt that comes from not knowing what's going on.

That you were surprised by the outrage only means you haven't been paying attention.
You really need to bring citations into an argument if you're going to say vitamin c injections can cure cancer.
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Use of the passive voice gives it a different rhythm. Contemporary "best practice" is to avoid writing in passive voice.
What I find interesting is that using active voice for inanimate objects like brickwork and walls and carriages, seems a bit anthropomorphic or perhaps animistic. Sure, "the wall fell" but not by its own volition.

Yet, for me the passive voice in this passage bogs down a bit in the final phrasing as subordinate clauses convolute as multiple inanimates suffer external effects. But in the end, the use of passive voice allows "great injury" to be the subject of the first sentence and empowers the paragraph in a way that "The engine" as subject simply cannot.
I suppose this is the one point I always find myself pondering when these women in tech arguments arise, why is there no push to for women in the oil-manufacturing industry? How many women do we have working on oil rigs? It's a very well paying job with a lot of opportunity for people with less than stellar backgrounds, but trying to get their life on track. There are lots of jobs out there that are close to 100% male, and some don't even require a lot of physical strength. Where is the outcry?
a. are we really going to harm poor precious little Henry by making him rote learn grammar instead of expressing the minimal amount of individuality he might have by school age (we don't read books written by children because they don't have much interesting to say) b. by not giving children a proper grasp of language we are actually limiting their ability to express themselves, for God's sake
As I understand it, the data about discrimination in hiring are mixed, but I'm interested in learning more.

Your threat response point seems like dressing up a group's overreaction to make it justifiable. It's also another example of different standards being applied to liberal groups vs conservatives groups (offending conservative groups is basically a sacrament, but saying anything that can be remotely twisted into an offensive statement toward a liberal group is nearly criminal). I've never seen anyone make any sort of threat-response/justifiable-offense argument when conservatives are upset about, say, "blasphemy day" or just the constant misrepresentation in the media. In particular though, there's nothing which should remotely cause offense, even in the selection of quotes you shared (but good on you for quoting and not taking offense at strawman--very few of Damore's critics have been so kind). Damore's arguments (however factual) were better than I could make, but it's ridiculous that the criticism is that he didn't successfully prevent everyone from taking offense. He couldn't have done more to prevent offense without damaging his own case. I think this is another case of the left refusing to be pacified by anything less than complete political capitulation. Meanwhile any sort of expression from liberal groups, even defamation or riots, are defended, and any one who criticizes them have impossible standards. The double standards here should be unbelievable.
https://bugs.debian.org/752114
Why is it binary? I'm pretty sure you can focus on both. Also, it's not hard to get candidates that are non-diverse, almost by definition the status quo favors their hiring, hence the diversity programs.
This was a great story but was there ever a follow-up article? Did the hacker get to the USA?

Also, can anyone shed some light on how hackers can keep breaking into instagram and twitter accounts that have just been stolen? I assume they aren't brute forcing it, how is it that the hacker in this story felt like he couldn't keep it secure?
Not right now, since it is one of the aspect where my app will be different than other app.
>They're defining a bunch of custom media types, which in of itself is pretty weird,

No it isn't. If you're doing REST and your resources are not completely trivial (arguably, even if they are) you should be defining a custom media type for them (think HTML5).

>but then they're not actually using those media types as the Content-Type of the response.

Ok, that is very weird.
Contemporary education eschews the use of passive voice. The passage would judged negatively in most contemporary classrooms in the English speaking world.
Isn't the argument for adverts that they're somewhat equivalent to buying the website page?

And: Who has been harmed here?
I'm not sure how you're privvy to his thought process.

Also, the idea that finding ways to employ more women+minorities leads to poorer employees is exactly what many people don't after about - essentially, your argument is taking his opinion as fact, while I only wanted to point out the underlying message to his words.
It's truly the Visual Basic of our times. On Error Resume Next...
And more rationalizing, that boils down to: its normal and OK for so many of the jobs to be held by men. Because (women are inferior at them; no women want the job; random accident?).

Absurdly biased statistics need to be 'proven' or they can be ignored? Remember when Yahoo had far more women than men in executive positions? That sure got slammed as discriminatory, instantly, without any demand for 'more proof'. Why, do we think? Why is the response so overwhelmingly in favor of men having jobs?

Demanding more proof (besides the decades of evidence of women fleeing workplaces because of stress; women getting paid less for the same job; women overlooked for promotion despite reviews etc) is just more excuse-making. To make us feel better about the situation; to make it ok to do nothing; to explain how we're really not the bad guy even though we're fine with half of us getting a raw deal.
> The company pushing the legislation has a major agenda that is not safety - patent licensing.

I'm not convinced this is reason enough to argue against it; rather, it's reason to demand that whatever regulation is proposed doesn't mandate the technology used, or to fix the licensing fee at a reasonable amount.

> You know why [… other safety precautions for woodworking …]

I don't find this argument very compelling. By analogy, you could argue against airbags in cars, since people wear seat belts, have licensing + supervised training, brakes, etc. All of those things are human-dependent, and thus may not be used appropriately in all situations.
This reminds me of a project that turns 2D NES games into 3D in real time.. not joking!

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11189002/3dnes-emulator-ni...
> bjupress.com

Would you consider them an unbiased source given their stated goal is to "support Christian educators by producing textbooks and materials that shape a biblical worldview"?
Was the magical land you come from one without a history of patriarchy and sexism stretching back centuries?

P.S., it's "Dunning-Kruger", genius.
I sent a transaction of 0.6btc 16 hours ago with 0.00022 BTC fee. Still has 0 confirmations. that's almost 1 dollar in fees.

Another transaction with 0.00055 BTC fees did get picked up, after spending a couple hours in the mempool.
That's easy for you to say.

Back when I didn't have any money my phone budget was $8 a month. Minutes 10 cents a piece, IIRC. People didn't really text very much back then but those were 10 cents a piece as well. Each dime mattered to me very much.

There's also people with plans that only allow X minutes a month.
Maybe something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format
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Is WICG a new kind of WHATWG?
Does anybody know the difference between them?
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Good point. How is it possible to move that much data from SAN to mongo cluster in such a short time window?
My opinion is one that is also shared by American law. There are many crimes of speech. E.g., fraud, conspiracy to commit murder, and harassment.

But sure, anonymous coward. You can read my mind, and it's just what you always hated! Funny coincidence, there.
"Alternatively (and more likely) we would have decided the idea simply doesn't work."

No, we would just keep beating on it until it works. It's a myth that science always precedes engineering. It's a very regular drift, and worst case scenario, if they just couldn't work it out, they'd build several ground stations in known locations, derive corrections as those drift, and upload corrections into the system periodically. (Similar things are done today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS )

Even with the science that we have, there's still fudge factors and empirically-determined values we have to use anyhow, because the Earth is not homogeneous and we have to take its slightly-lumpy gravity field as a given, not something we can "scientifically" determine. (Of course we "use science" to determine the lumps, but the lumps themselves are simply a given.)
Honestly it's a step towards making off-chain payments work (Lightning Network) in these remote places.

You can imagine a hub per small town acting sort of as a "bank" which is listening to the blockchain.

You make payments with your local peers through some mesh-network, and once a week (or whenever the channels with the hub are open) they go to close the channels out at the hub.

I'm more worried about how these people will acquire their first Bitcoins.
I have used the Firefox ScrapBook extension for over 10 years. It saves a static dump of the DOM of the page you are looking at (and all images) so it does not depend on anything external to show the page and you can save pages that required a login or was generated by any amount of complex javascripts. Also saves a link to the original site and comes with features to edit pages and join them (those annoying articles spread out over multiple pages to show more ads) and more. There is a clone of it for Chrome as well that I have not tried.
I think this is exactly what I fear. No matter how much money we raise for curing cancer, it's not necessarily going to give us the cure for cancer. And now we have "charities" like Komen that exist purely to virtue signal while everyone's driving Bentley's. There's so much corruption out there, especially places like Africa where I know Gates has given a lot of love.
I thought at first that this was to do with memory mapping/banking...
We take into account long-term trends in weather and traffic conditions like road works, school holidays, and recurring traffic patterns.

The drivers' sat navs also (IIRC) have live traffic, which can send them down different _roads_ in response to things like accidents causing traffic jams.

Of course, there are limits to our ability to respond quickly to changes in traffic conditions for simple logistical reasons - many drivers' vans are loaded once at the start of an 8-hour shift, and we can't predict traffic accidents 8 hours before they happen!

Certain other competing concerns are balanced with a 'cost function' which has been tuned empirically.
I wonder if she's ever looked at rowing (she should have enough guinea pigs in Oxford). Nothing else I've done in life has come close to the bonding I've felt after a hard season's competition in a rowing crew, the epitome of synchrony.
That's how Intel define it; other fabs have their own definitions.