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I was surprised to see that “Assume good faith” was a principle of Wikipedia - it doesn't match my experience with the community at all.
For what it is worth, It was reported to RedHat, but our experiences with them have proved to be fairly.. hmm.. lackluster.

We've talked about it before http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/02/the-value-of-commercia...
Google releases Consumers Surveys, shares revenue with publishers
A) That you can't see the sexism in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's this logical fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

B) As she explained, she was not the only co-worker who didn't like it.

C) If I walk into a frat party and see something abusive, unsafe, non-consensual, or illegal, you bet I'll speak up. Because hi, I'm a citizen, and that's not the kind of country I want.

D) If I merely don't like the frat party, I will indeed walk right back out. Total time invested: 60 seconds. Harm to my professional reputation: zero. Can you see that's different than forcing somebody out of a job?

E) She made no demands and did not force anybody to do anything. They put up a bot; she put up a bot.
Lazy men work the hardest.

I made PIC micros behave like I2C EEPROMS, asm obviously. I had a coworker who tried doing shit on a Rabbit chip in C or something.

God says...
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proposes to enrich every country, yet, with regard to some particular
commodities, it seems to follow an opposite plan: to discourage
exportation, and to encourage importation. Its ultimate object,
however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by an
advantageous balance of trade. It discourages the exportation of the
materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to
give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those
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Probably not, but to whom is the good faith obligation to? Twitter or the USPTO?

Another commenter stated that he patented defensively when negotiating to be bought out by twitter. If that is the case, he probably doesn't have a good faith obligation from the time he filed the patent. The question then rests on how the patent was represented at the deal. Did Twitter pay more because they factored in the value of his patent? If so, then I reckon good faith would extend to those negotiations and he'd only be in the clear as long as he did not misrepresent the patent.
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Well, the content is definitely recycled.
At this point I think it's just FBI/CIA trying to troll us and get more cyber-laws passed.
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From my group of friends:

I have a friend who (jokingly) characterizes her boyfriend's amorous advances when he's drunk as "rape-y."

When my male friend mentioned Emma Watson was hot in the most recent Harry Potter movies (when she was 18+), our female friends ribbed him about being attracted to children.

When an awkward guy tries too hard to hit on a girl, we might joke that his advances are "kinda rape-y."

My female friend absolutely hates being tickled. When threatened with tickles, she might say "if you tickle me I'll cry rape god dammit!"

My girlfriend is a bit clumsy and also leaves kitchen cabinets open. She once gave herself a black eye with one, and told all our friends I was physically abusing her.
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Micro nuclear reactors don't have weapons grade uranium/plutonium in large quantities, AFAIK at best they could be used to build a dirty bomb. And what would be the point of that ? I'm not proposing building a religious sect, just a society of hand picked individuals from different fields, like engineering, natural sciences, architecture, arts etc.
Why was this programmer still employed years after his project was completed?
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Suspension of belief I something I expect to need for stunts, not social commentary.
Do we need paid upgrades in the Mac App Store?
My experience is it varies site by site, family by family and individual by individual. Stereotypyes can fit cultures but they become fairly destructive (and sometimes even self-fulfilling) when you start applying them to individuals or treating them as rules.

I know quite a few travellers, roma and irish gypsies and the one thing I do know is all three groups are tight and fairly insular, especially from each other. And like any tight groups they are very good at reflecting the attitudes they percieve to be directed towards them.

For the record, I am not from any of these groups and have had relatively few problems with them, when compared to other groups I have interacted with. Drunk anglo-saxon football fans, for instance.
Re-thinking business cards
It's surprising how much adding a soundtrack changes the whole feel of a video. Great work, guys, keep it up.
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How is an analogy not a comparison? E.g.:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/analogy

Also, startups may have unique cultural requirements, but putting up with a hostile work environment is not one of them. Not under US law, anyhow.
FYI: HBS -> Harvard business school.

Reminds me of the lyric, "One of these things is not like the other, one of these things, doesn't belong."
On X11, the keymap can be set to "US International" which is the same as a stock US layout but with deadkeys and an AltGr key. I find it to be even easier than Apple's input method.
If we find life elsewhere in our solar system, my money is on it sharing a common ancestor with life on Earth. We already know that rocks ejected by meteorite impacts can wind up on another planet. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine some spores coming along for the ride.
I agree. My definition of "wasteful novelty" though includes a raft of consumer web start-ups!
This sounds like an extremely high-cost environment. How would you compete with high tech R&D centers around the world that may have 1/10th or 1/100th the costs? I'm not saying you can't compete, but I think you'd have to offer something (1) that you couldn't get anywhere else but Nauru and (2) is in very high demand.

(And by the way, not trying to rain on your parade; on the contrary, I find this discussion fascinating, so thanks for starting it.)
Largely agreed, but if you'll permit me to get cute, I'd suggest that's there's always been UX. Whether in city design, the evolution of tool usage, invention, product design, etc. UX is at the very heart of why we, as humans, always seek to improve upon our lot.

The difference with software is that, for the first time in our history, we're able to measure, isolate, quantify, and control the elements of UX better than we've ever been able to. (It helps that software is often experienced in isolation from its environment, so UI can be more closely correlated with UX than it is for other domains). UX was a fuzzy, ethereal, probably subconscious concept that only recently became a serious discipline. But it's always been important. And our brains have evolved to conceptualize it, albeit intangibly until now.
They should go more negative and turn off the sun or more positive and build a new internet that day.
Ok, fine. So you're a billionaire with an island nation state and (presumably) a private army to protect it. As a business owner, I then have the choice of doing my business in a major Western democracy with an elected government that is publically answerable to millions of people, or subjecting my business to the whims of an eccentric billionaire with his own private army who is answerable to no one.

If you want to do that with your own billions, have at it. But I wouldn't want to locate a business there, do business with you, or even go to work for you, an employer from whom I could have no possible legal recourse in the event of a dispute.
No, they would only have to pay if they used 3D rendering AND "domainMemory". I don't even think domainMemory is available for access in regular AS3 unless Adobe recently opened that up (I know Alchemy C++ and Haxe can use it). For something like Street View using domainMemory would likely give no appreciable performance gain, since StreetView would use just a few unchanging textures and vertices which would already be handled efficiently by stage3D.

The fact that they are charging only if 3D is used in conjunction with domainMemory really limits the kinds of apps that would be subject to this revenue sharing--although it's true that memory intensive games would likely want both of these features.
We Don't Die, We Multiply
>Democracy is often thought of as peaceful, but it can often be a vehicle for the majority to disregard the legitimate needs of the minority.

But that's the system they already live in, I wouldn't change that, I would just use that system to achieve my goal. I agree that it's not completely moral but that's inherent in democracies, even with constitutions protecting the minorities, they will always be subjected to mob rule.
They don't. Including a page as an image includes it in my recently viewed items. Don't know about recommendations, as Amazon.co.uk have a kindle letter running.
I'd like to add it also allow you to scan books and CD covers, and instantly detect it and give you reviews/prices.
You said "...Agile, or any other process...", so you're explicitly not limiting your statement to Agile methodologies.

Do you think _slower_ (as in taking longer to develop) software is the only outcome of the processes that avionics software companies use? Or do you think they are wrong or would be better off not using any of these processes?
Well in my opinion Facebook is cutting the bankers in on the action not the other way around, it is funny how many times Wall St. seems to think they are doing these companies favors. Neither is doing the other a favor, it is a business deal and if the numbers make sense you invest, if they don't you don't worry about whether the guy finds it a valuable use of his time, which is irrelevant. This seems more like teen drama dusted up by media, than a real issue. As any smart business person would leave the number to his numbers people and get on with innovating.
Has anyone besides RTM ever successfully dropped the majority of the network?
Already received my first report. It took at most 20 minutes or so to receive the e-mail for it.

One month, 1338 searches. That I was not expecting. I didn't realize I searched 50 times a day on average. I suppose it's not that high when I think about it but it caught me by surprise.

It's interesting that they map all of my IP addresses that I logged in from to the companies that own the IP blocks and show that to me when I mouse over the countries in the list.
I've had images with them included deleted before, which is why I modified the golly screenshot. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what's allowed, and I doubt many people who are not active commons contributors do, either.
Very cool! FYI, it also works fine in Firefox.
I meant definition 5, which apparently is not as popular as I thought.

e.g. Peanuts are to elephants as bananas are to monkeys. Peanuts are not being compared to bananas, and elephants are not being compared to monkeys.

The workplace was not being compared to a frat house. What's being compared is the decision a person would make about those environments: if you don't like it, don't join.
Well the Canadian federal and provincial governments are basically just a collective cartel in control of every regulated industry in the country. They really only exist to protect the existing monopolies and oligopolies around banks, oil, electricity, telecom, tobacco, agriculture, alcohol etc. This leaves no money or interest in sponsoring new industries, and helps encourage anti-competitive behavior to crush small companies before they can grow.

Nearly every technology company leaves Canada as soon as they can because they know the Canadian business environment is hostile to startups and small businesses. Canada wants innovators to leave their monopolies alone.
Mozilla can't make NaCl non-CPU specific. It's CPU specific by design. PNaCl, which tries to be portable, is a completely separate project (although the underlying SFI is similar), and it's too early to evaluate the performance there to see if it's worth it. So there is nothing Mozilla or Opera or anyone can do.

Deeply optimized JS should run much faster than 10x slower than native. Most benchmarks I've run on compiled code are 2x-6x slower than native. And that is before JS engines actually optimize specifically for that type of code, which is happening this year.
One one hand, down-voting someone because (you think) they're wrong is counterproductive to a healthy discussion, but batista is doing the equivalent of walking into a technical discussion about, let's say, improving Django performance and saying "look, just use Rails, duh!" - there's nothing insightful about that position (which just seems to mirror normative culture), and the posts have a slight tin-foil-hat tone. There are some statements that are just not worth arguing against and are tangential to the point of distraction. Would you agree that those kinds of comments are worth downvoting (even if you don't agree that batista's comments fall into that category)?
Batista is not being downvoted because they're expressing a differing opinion. They're being downvoted because they're not taking the time to fully consider the issues and engage in reasonable debate.

As an example, from their first post, they suggest that it's not legitimate to worry about this sort of problem because larger problems exist. This form of argument is not only blindly hypocritical (that is, if the arguer believed it, they would not be engaging in the subdebate but rather be working to resolve the larger problem) but intrinsically ridiculous -- it supposes that it's not legitimate to discuss any issue while "worse" problems persist. It's a self-defeating argument on a specialized forum like HN, and utilizing it indicates that someone isn't actually arguing the topic at hand (in a sense, it's a "universal" argument, and thus like nonfalsifiable theories, completely irrelevant).

They then literally compare their own downvoting to the Salem witch trials (the irony of which is beyond belief, and further calls into question their sincerity), and additionally claim that proportion of women in tech is "not a serious issue in its manifestation or it's consequences at all", and when pressed that many people disagree, compare people who care about workplace sexism to hypochondriacs in order to marginalize their beliefs (this is particularly poisonous and a clear indicator that they're not interested in the viewpoints of others). They also fall into a really standard "I'm just expressing my opinion" backtrack, which is particularly ironic given that their initial complaint was that people were expressing their opinion on this topic rather than doing something more worthwhile.

Regardless of their viewpoint, they're not participating in reasonable intellectual discourse. We're not obligated to argue with someone who's plainly not interested in having an actual argument, and the up/down-voting is working as it should in this instance (I'm certainly not saying it works as it should in all instances, but this is pretty clear).
How about Conway's Life in Conway's Life? (Yo, dawg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q... )
>...a collective cartel in control of every regulated industry in the country. They really only exist to protect the existing monopolies and oligopolies around banks, oil, electricity, telecom, tobacco, agriculture.

You just described almost every government in the world except in the US, you'll need to add Defense Contractors :)
Like a lot of people here, I have sporadically read Wikipedia for years. I came on board as a Wikipedia editor in May 2010 after meeting the project's co-founder and his family in person the year before. I've since seen some of those immediate family members on another lengthy occasion. My children regularly interact with that family in an online education community. Through a web of mutual friendships, I thought I had some sense of what the community norms would be like on Wikipedia before I started. Moreover, I began editing only after reading the several published books about Wikipedia available at that time (as disclosed on my Wikipedia user page), and came on board as someone who has actually had both academic journal editing positions and paid journalism editing positions before Wikipedia even existed.

Even at that, I get a lot of well sourced edits reverted by ideologically motivated drive-by I.P. editors as part of an ongoing process of edit-warring on articles that I happen to know sources for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

For some controversial topics, no amount of good-faith editing by editors who actually know how to look up reliable sources and how to have civil discussions of controversial issues can overcome the flood of point-of-view pushers (both I.P. editors and registered editors who are sock puppets or meat puppets of previously banned editors) who want to drag down the project to below the level of a partisan blog. There simply isn't any incentive in today's atmosphere on Wikipedia for readers who actually know what encyclopedias look like and who have actually engaged in careful research on controversial topics to devote any of their time and effort to Wikipedia.

My number of edits per month has plummeted, and mostly I wikignome to clean up copyediting mistakes on miscellaneous articles written by young people or foreign nationals who didn't write grammatical English in the last revision of the article. The way to increase participation by productive, knowledgeable, literate editors is to drive away the ideologues and enforce some reasonable behavioral norms on article talk pages and user talk pages. I see no sign of that happening over at Wikipedia, and until I do, I will heartily support anyone's effort to build a competing resource, either limited to a specialized topic or a direct attempt to build a better quality general online encyclopedia.

I think the "Lamest Edit Wars" page in project space sums up much of what is amiss about Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
Would love a more extended explanation of what this means and why it's surprising, for a this software geek who dabbles in hardware.
The Satisfying Strain of Learning Hard Material
Maybe it's a pre-april fools prank (as in it's probably not going to happen but the extra hype will be the prank)! No one would take it seriously (even more seriously) if this fell on sunday.
I really like your one sentence description. Do you mind if we use that?
Hord Tipton of ISC2.org Talks About Getting into the IT Security Field (Video)
Great point albeit unexplored by us. Are you talking about loans from traditional banks?

I've perhaps unfairly assumed traditional banks won't fund SaaS companies because of unfamiliarity with non-asset intensive businesses. Or that they'd require me to put up my house, wife and child as a personal guarantee?
A big reason that Flash still wins for game development is that audio support sucks in HTML5 and silent games are no fun. An example - Mobile Safari only lets you play sound on one channel.
this is the same bad story that was in the guardian x.400 handled binary attachments over 20 years ago.
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Actually, I think the ACA does improve the situation he describes. Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teeter at the edge of "ramen profitable" would likely be eligible for extensive subsidy.
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Thanks for clarification; I've missed "both".

I'm not sure 3D graphics is a key for social games.
And more serious games like MMORPG usually have no trouble making players install a dedicated client program.

It's just me or they are targetting a pretty narrow market here?
My internet connection is pretty bad. The thing is, whole country is in the same shit. Guess what, google plus doesn't even load in here. I mean, facebook(even through proxy since its blocked by govt) and others are loading perfectly, maybe with some delay, but g+ is not functioning at all. All google services are suffocating with js/ajax/whothehellknowwhat stuff, that making it almost impossible to use them if you are not at some lightning speed connection. Uhh, so pissed off!
Beautifully done. Just discovered you can zoom in by double clicking.
The name escapes me for the moment, but there was a famous computer virus which I believe did almost to do that. They key wasn't that it was particularly clever and the attack vector it used had been patched by MS months before.

The key was that the attack happened over UDP which meant that there was no handshake, no congestion control, no need to worry about dropped packets, etc. The only limitation was the bandwidth of the infected host -- the virus itself was less than 500 bytes (not kilo, just straight bytes) so a single host could infect tens of millions of computers.

It was a pretty fascination piece of malware.
Then doesn't this destroy the public/private network argument? Presumably you only need to use Comcast's "private" network to access their streaming site/service when using their ISP.
You solved the problem easily because the article name was "overthinking" and it was saying that "children could do this".

You would be absolutely amazed at what that does to your problem solving ability. You actually stop over-thinking. You don't go to your advanced number-theory knowledge you may or may not have and you look for a simple solution.

Sorry, but everyone that read the article and then solved the problem is tainted.
I'm trying to provide perspective without wading into a quagmire. Basically, you're deciding for someone else what is and is not minor to them, and then holding it against them that they're concerned about something minor.
I'd love to see a few prominent sites (Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and so on) get together secretly and agree to have, say, a 10 minute outage at the same time during this--just to see what these "hackers" do if they think for a bit they actually succeeded.
Very cool. It's interesting to see how elevation affects the wind here (http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/usa_elevation_map.gif), but I'd wish there was a worldwide version. (I'm aware that you need a data source)

Should you be interested, here's data from the Netherlands: http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/hydra/cgi-bin/register.cgi
Beautiful visualization! It would be interesting to have an underlay showing the topography so one can correlate features in the wind pattern with mountain ranges, etc.