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You're wrong. This is something that my wife and I have spent the last 2.5 years trying to build. An inclusive event where everyone feels welcome to participate.

The post was made here specifically because HN has a reputation for being exclusive and to show, as we have in our conference(s), that with a little work you can build a successful inclusive community.

I respect your opinion and your right to stick up for HN to prevent it from being gamed. There was no compensation made of any type to encourage Wendy to write this piece.
That lady is dumber than a box of rocks
If Google was a government, or youtube was a service that you were paying for, this would be a valid argument.
When I don't yell "HELLO CUNTS", it's not because someone 1000 miles away might be offended.

As far as this particular offense goes, "piss Christ" and so on....

Some animals are more equal than others.
S3 needs its own adapter for MHL. So much for a standard
Hacking up an armv7s library (for iPhone 5)
Isn't all solid matter surface form just the high probability areas of the electron clouds?
Codiqa's YC S12 Rejection Story
One could do this at home right with a pencil, a small glass of water, and some time?
Scaling Quality through The "Missing Institution"
> According to the Hadopi law it doesn’t matter that the man didn’t carry out the infringements himself – as the owner of the Internet connection in question he is responsible for what happens on it.

That's ridiculous. Imagine you get charged with drunk driving because unknowingly to your wife was driving your car while being drunk... How are such ridiculous laws possible.
As a guy who grew up in an impoverished, rural family and received Pell grants and federal loans for my college costs, can someone explain to me why articles like this talk about students not being able to go to college without the donation? Has something changed since 1999 when I, with zero money or savings in my family, was able to go to college on government loans/grants based on the fact that I got in due to good grades/etc? (IF SOMETHING HAS CHANGED, AND POOR KIDS WITH GOOD GRADES ARE UNABLE TO GET FEDERAL LOANS AND GRANTS, THEN I AM GOING TO DO WHATEVER I, AS AN AVERAGE MIDDLE CLASS CITIZEN, CAN DO TO FIX THIS.) I realize that we've had an economic collapse, and I think this is a fantastic program, but statements like those in the article distract from the fact that poor areas of this nation fail not because students can't AFFORD college, but because they can't GET IN, due to substandard educations and (to some degree) bad parenting.

Regarding my comment on bad parenting, before people crucify me for blaming the victim, I assure you that a lot of poor, uneducated parents actively interfere (knowingly or not) with their children's educational chances. They do this mainly through ignorance (leaving TV on at night in child's room, never reading to them when they are young, not helping with homework, putting children to bed too late, etc.) I've watched this happen with most of my friend's growing up.
I think this is indeed a slippery slope. This is a VERY slippery slope because of the aftermath. A normal situation of censorship would have a platform (in this case, Google) censoring some sort of content released through them that was critical of the platform. This is almost the opposite; Google clearly is trying to assuage the seething anger for greater good. How far does one go though?

What if you have someone release a highly critical video of a massively corrupt leader of a country and its citizens begin to rage over it when the rest of the world knows they are just uneducated and don't know any better? A farfetched situation, but still. This is essentially what is happening: masses of uneducated people in somewhat-developing countries are upset over others desecrating their sacred religion. How much longer is this kowtowing to animals going to continue?
I used to do a cheap man's version of this for neural networks: train many models in parallel on subsets of my data and then choose the one with the best validation performance (I avoided ensembles for speed reasons). But I often found with good model parameters and good quality data most of the models came out very similarly, except a few unlucky ones who found bad local minima. So I usually just downsampled the hell out of my data and built one or two models.
This is an attention-grabbing headline, at best. As described in the article, the scientists found highly transient evidence of superconductive behavior in a tiny subset of graphite grains. While that is incredible, it's not the same as "room temperature superconductivity found!!!".
Absolutely! I really liked that this article didn't over-hype it and made the limitations and caveats very clear. While it's extremely far from usable, if we know of even one instance where this phenomenon occurs, we can try to figure out why, and then replicate on a wider scale.

Obviously it's not going to be in our living rooms anytime soon, but when we do crack this it's going to have a rather radical impact.
Would it be possible to use <canvas> for extracting pixel information as binary data?
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Sorry but this sounds like marketing speak. I highly doubt that Intel designs anything specifically for Windows at the CPU level.

There is no direct mapping between Windows System Calls and functionality of a specific chip. There is a ton of code between that system call and what actually happens on the chip or in its firmware.

The top layer sure is Windows specific because it runs as part of Windows. However, the bottom layer is just bits to fiddle with or instructions to send to the CPU and any OS can implement that. Including Linux.

Again, marketing blah.
That's a potential issue with any language, I believe. In Go you can recover() from what would otherwise be a termination. For example, I have a function that grabs and parses RSS feeds. If my program is fed junk by the remote site, I don't want to terminate, I want to ignore the error for that feed (after logging it). To do this I recover() from any error at the feed level.
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hover boards for all! that's what the future was _supposed_ to look like. next stop: jetpacs.
Anyone who doesn't think Java is used in the field is living in a bubble (citation: http://langpop.com/). Most people I know thinks C# is just a Java ripoff they'd never bother to use. Making something proprietary doesn't make it better.

No one is going to rewrite their Windows Phone 7 Apps in C# for a platform that gets a tiny sliver of the market share. If and only if Microsoft can get the OS onto a phone consumers actually buy will apps follow. If the only people who buy Windows 8 phones are UX designers who believe they know better than consumers, it simply won't be worth the effort.
What to do now that the iPhone is shit
While I hate all the patent-BS, Apple already made the better omelette. It's not like you can revolutionize the industry every few years.

But wait, they have revolutionized laptop design, smartphones, and even the all in one desktop. The industry is following them in three different segments.

A good example might be Feynman or Einstein: They both revolutionized physics when younger, and didn't do much afterwards. Doesn't mean they weren't doing good work, it's just not easy to create breakthroughs.
I don't think Slashdot would stoop to using a sensational headline just to get some extra views. /s

Seriously though, this is why I don't have /. on my bookmarks bar anymore. It's almost as bad as Fox News.
Meta Comment: pstuart is technically correct, but I think it's much more useful to explain why something is the case than to simply accuse someone of willful ignorance. There's always the possibility that they, or someone else, genuinely does not know.
I think it is the same, if (and correct me if I'm wrong here) this is the first time we've observed room temperature superconductivity of any kind?

It would mean that a hypothesized phenomenon has been confirmed as possible, and more importantly would mean we could start to understand the conditions under which it occurs and see if we can apply that to anything on a slightly larger scale.
> This will eventually result in all those nice businesses shutting off their free wifi.

I suspect it's too late to fix that. I've seen "Hadopi letters" in hotel lobbies and heard about people shutting down public wifis for this exact reason.

Either they restrict the network drastically, which, in practice, means proxy everything and block every non-http use (I'm not sure it prevents anything). Or they track all the clients, but that's kind of hard to do for a cafe. Might work for hotels (I'm not even convinced of that).

After the second letter, you can bet the café will just cut the Wifi. I wonder if big brands like McDonald's will find a way to continue providing free wifi..
How does an essay cover anywhere near the full breadth of course material.
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Yeah, I'd rather have several clear choices of inflexible things than fuzzy choices of stuff that is so flexible that I ask myself what to do with it.
GoDaddy Apology or Advertising Ploy?
I was thinking about doing something like that as well. To not send real images but some binary data. Dunno if it will work
You've got to be kidding me. He may be the world's leading expert in search engines (I doubt it), but this post is ridiculous.

My favorite part is when he receives simple, straightforward advice from Apple on how to fix his iPhone issue, but he chooses to ignore it. Instead he scours the web for alternatives, and spots one suggestion that is applicable to jailbroken phones.

"Are you frickin’ kidding me? I have to jailbreak my phone to fix this problem?"

Uh, or you could just try any one of the four easy solutions you've been offered so far.

But that would make way too much sense, so he continues his search. He ends up at iphonefaq.org, a site that "looked pretty official." Are you freaking kidding me?

Finally, after hours of searching, he arrives at this gem:

"The only option that was relatively straightforward and seemed to work, according to many forums, was to restore the phone."

As in, the original solution provided by Apple's tech support. Apparently it's Apple's fault that he can't follow directions or readily accept simple solutions. I can't go on, I'm getting dumber just reading this.
The day I went back to Snow Leopard I realized that the only thing I miss from [Mountain] Lion is the non-ugly scrollbars. Everything else was just better.
This happens to me on Google maps all of the time since I switched to Android. It has gotten quite annoying.
from someone who has worked a lot with PDF, excellent work.
It's not a right of the news media to know.
I shall not try to say this is an easy problem but it reminds me of people blaming the shopper for getting their cashbox robbed after leaving money there ('it is your fault...').
Windows 7 really does just work. I don't know why more web developers don't try it when files are usually stored/executed on a remote Linux server anyway. The Lenovo X1 Carbon is a great example of a solid device.
I understand that it's anti-Muslim, but is that "hate speech"? If it were an anti-Christian video that showcased Jesus as a pedophile and philanderer, would it be labeled as such? It's free speech.
Do people find that surprising?

Somewhat; because of its nature, cheating is very hard to quantify - I know there was some at my school but I can only speculate as to how much went on behind closed doors.

Was collaboration permitted/encouraged on all assessment? In a lot of the group work at my school there tended to be some people who contributed nothing but complaints about their hangover - but who got good grades on the back of the group. I would have thought more group work would exacerbate this problem; do you think that was the case?
This video is clearly hate speech,

Is that true? The video is alleged to insult Muhammad who is revered in Islam, but does it slander individual, living human beings or classes of human beings.

In other words, while so-called "hate speech" is indeed offensive, not everything that offends some people is "hate speech".
Just In Time learning is perfectly fine, but there is a minimum of foundation for you to even realize there's something you need to learn. I think this article covers that pretty well.
How? You can still type in the box.
Do you work for Samsung, by any chance?
150€ sounds very reasonable. If this always were the punishment for file sharing I would have no problem at all with this.
That is awesome! link for the lazy: http://groupdocs.com/
There's nothing wrong with debating what the most moral course of action for a private company is, even if you have no right to demand them to change.
Google is a major provider of online content. If a major provider of online content begins restricting said content, that is potential cause for concern.

You read my post as "Google owes it to me to keep this content available", which is simply not the case.
The IANA has 15 entire unused IPv4 /8 that are "reserved for future use"
Perhaps the reason you have never had to think about it is because you developed a good foundation for reasoning about algorithm time complexity?

I will say that I have never personally had to concern myself with a sorting algorithm (though I can definitely think of areas where one would), but pretty much everything else I have learned about algorithms has been extremely useful both as "tools for thinking about problems" and actually making correct and practical choices.

Sorting algorithms are taught because they are such a fundamental operation AND they provide some good "easy" examples for how different approaches can give you dramatically different performance. Some lessons can only be learned by actually seeing it for yourself.
If you think of processors as plumbing, shuffle operations are like pipes: they put the data in the right place for other operations. General shuffle operations let you do things like convert RGB data to RGBA data without trouble. Shuffling is a more flexible version of the more common pack, unpack, and bytewise shift operations.
Twitter Defends Users' Rights... For Now
Basically, micro-USB is non-reversible, non-elegant, not customizable enough and not powerful enough to charge an iPad.
Willy Wonka, James and other Roald Dahl faves come to ebooks
Moniker/SnapNames' name servers appear to be down
No traces of this block in the public Internet doesn't mean it isn't being used. It may be in use in some internal network(s) instead of a private address range (yes, that happens).
This.

I think most folks who truly master this stuff are self-taught, whether they went to University or not. I got all the degrees, but I can honestly say that I learned a lot more exploring on my own than I did sitting in class.
I want a better enterprise security environment similar to Blackberry's. More business level productivity suites can be collaborative within a company if only the OS could support it. This is where Win8 holds most promise. Apple will retain market share with hipsters, girls and grandma, but power users are looking elsewhere. Nothing wrong with that.
Assume you are John Gruber of daringfireball.net, wouldn't you be allowed to publish good posts you have written? What kind of throttling is that? I was not posting most of the blogs posts essays I have written, I was only posting essay-ish and hacker culture-related entries.

There you go, JGC is posting his own entries http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521682

I didn't know this was coming and I asked for a "contact" that I would use to reach out and solve the problem. I didn't ask the public to remove ban on my website. Read the description first please.
Botnets: The scalable menace
because Apple needs the money...
There's still a finite number of IP addresses that is below all reasonable expectations for how many devices will be wanting an IP address. Reclaiming unused blocks just softens the shock by making the exhaustion less sudden and more gradual. We're still definitely going to run out.
Clang has -Weverything which does indeed include everything.
Free WiFi? Dig deeper.

WEP connections can be breached in minutes, WPA connections are also easy to break if you use a dictionary word.

Everyone who is even on a "secure" network would have a right to be afraid of laws like this.
Guidelines For Designing With Audio
The idea that somebody shouldn't say something because it may elicit a violent reaction by somebody else seems to have dangerous logical conclusions that could include actually encouraging violent reactions to speech in order to silence it.

For example, the recent mural by the Taiwanese businessman in Oregon (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13833952-china-as...) is clearly protected political speech, and obviously nobody died because of it. However, if it led to violent reactions in China that resulted in some deaths, should it be suppressed?

Now, religion could be argued to be in a different category; however, I have a hard time accepting that argument due to the politicization of religion. As long as a religion has political implications, speech critical of it should be protected in the same way other political speech is protected.

That doesn't mean you should be able to explicitly encourage violence against members of a religion, but it does mean that Southpark and a Danish cartoon should be allowed to parody religion to make a political point.
I love bit-banging, sometimes you want to go that route even if the uC does have specialized hardware. I remember having to bit-bang I2C on multiple occasions because the standards are so loose.. good times.
napierzaza, your account was hellbanned 235 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3499098
Correct. Thank you.
IPhone 5: Apple’s 16:9 compromise
i thought Craigslist would hold out longer than Reddit... guess not.
I'm not sure about the definition of 'unused', just because a network is not visible from the Internet and has no publicly registered ASNs doesn't mean its numbers are not in private use (which AFAIK, was always a legitimate use-case for getting an allocation, and in many ways preferable to reusing RFC1918 space).

Added to that, even if it was seeing only minuscule internal use, the UK government's IT project reputation suggests the renumbering would cost at least as much as the block would sell for, assuming the project would even complete prior to the entire planet properly migrating to v6 and the block losing its value.
By future do you mean right now where NAT is being used by some providers already? I know Rogers in Canada has all mobile devices going through NAT unless you pay a nice "VPN" fee.

Also the assigned but unused IPv4 blocks don't do anything for other providers that actually need addresses.
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Ask HN: Why do College Textbooks have bad ratings on Amazon?
I'm a junior in college in New York studying CS. I went to Amazon for reviews on a few of my textbooks out of curiosity. To any professors out there on HN, is there a reason my textbooks are not easy to read? I understand this is college, but this is also 2012. Systems of writing have been in use for tens of thousands of years. Why can't my textbooks be easier to read. (Note: I say easier, meaning better explanations, not "More fun to read/entertaining" as most of my lesser self - challenging peers imply.)

Thanks in Advance.
The main reason this angers me is because it is no different than the spam mail I get from them every week. It is just a thinly veiled attempt to make more sales by making people think they could never get this discount otherwise. This is no real apology, a real apology would be reimbursement for past trouble, not necessary, but it would at least feel sincere.
So is Hacker News banning personal blogs according to their not-so-rich content? I have written a blog post, I thought it is about startups or tech and posted to HN.

Man, yesterday there was a politic news (US representatives shoot in Libya) at the #1 of the front page. How the heck is this about hacker culture, you tell me?

Such a thing would be certainly called arbitrary "censorship".
Once no more unused addresses turn up, they can start economizing on the used ones too. For example my university gives a publicly routed IP address to EVERY computer, even though most are completely firewalled off.
I think MIT now also has take home exams, but I'm not sure. Any MIT people here who can clarify?

I had at I think one take-home exam at MIT during my time there (1991-1995) and we were explicitly allowed (and encouraged) to collaborate, so long as we gave credit to the person we collaborated with. During one of the other HN Harvard-cheating-scandal threads, another poster mentioned that a take-home exam s/he had at MIT specifically forbid collaboration.
I actually agree, I don't use Numbers often, but it does whatever I need for basic at-home use without a hitch.

In Numbers' case, I was going by claims I've heard from Excel power users, who say it lacks Excel's advanced functionality. I edited my original post to reflect this.
Why should I give you anything for free when you will quickly drop me if I'm not an "expert" in new technology X.

The elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge is that the startup culture is very much driven by "What have you done for me lately?". I feel this is caused by the relative youth and inexperience of many community members that causes them to be attracted to the "latest and greatest" even if it doesn't offer any improvements.

As a dev I have a relatively short shelf life. Please don't ask me to donate any of it to you.
> http://ernestdelgado.com/public-tests/gifoncanvas/

Kinda:

> if we add an animated GIF as the first source, every time a drawImage call happens it will render whatever the status of the GIF is at that very second

So if you call drawImage in a (timeout/setinterval) loop, you can get the frame's data, compare to the previous frame's data and if they're different you got a new frame-worth of data.

Considering that requires canvas support (with image-query capabilities) you're probably better off using websockets and the like.
> An accurate rhetorical question would be: Do you shout "HELLO CUNTS!!!" every time you enter a building and before a single sound has emerged from your mouth someone gags you?

Don't property rights trump free speech rights? (IANAL) I.e., it's ok for you to shout whatever you want in public, but I get to throw you out of my house if I don't like what you're saying? Aren't Google just exercising their property rights in this case, common carrier considerations aside?
I'm not sure you can say the video literally caused several deaths.

Obviously the middle east is very complicated place, but ultimately even people in a mob should be held accountable for their actions [1], so the blame lies with the killers, not the makers of a film; nor the leaders who espouse a hateful philosophy [2] that justified the killing, although I'd certainly blame them more than some film.

[1] See the widespread rioting and looting in the UK last year, some of which was justified by the perpetrators as political, but all of which was prosecuted as criminal.

[2] I mean, if one American does something you don't like, how does that mean you can (and should) kill another one (or more)? I want to think it's more nuanced than that, but I don't see how.
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The hardest part of making a video game is writing a press release...