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Hey yakshaving,

I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably on other mobile platforms -- the button is not visible, nothing is clickable, and it can't be scrolled or resized. You might want to rethink that so as to capture the people who are browsing HN / TechCrunch / whatever while surfing on the bus on the go.
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An analogy doesn't automatically become bad just because it was once used to support a bad policy. :)
Thanks for the link. It seems like the bold claim is supported by a ton of data, as it should be. If this was what Boaler was offering, I think she would have a much stronger case. I skimmed some of the papers on Boaler's site as well, and they are almost completely unlike this one. They are full of anecdotes and quotes from students and very little data. To be fair, her study that is cited her later papers is not available on her web page so I have not read it.
When I said "at present", I was operating in the context of your previous post, i.e. assuming a universe with static space-time geometry. In this context, the present empty coldness of the universe is relevant and the past crowded hotness is not. Certainly, when a full modern understanding of cosmology is brought into play, Olbers' paradox is quickly downgraded from paradoxical to merely non-intuitive.

As noted previously, I was mixing temporally diverse conceptions of physics. Obviously, at any point in time there is a physics representing the current scientific consensus. I meant that my construction of an argument using ideas sampled from non-contemporary points in the stream of evolving understandings of physics was potentially dubious. Or, metaphorically, I was mixing metaphors.

After I first put the focus on naked-human-eye-visible light, it was meant to be assumed that any use of the term "light", as opposed to, say, "electromagnetic radiation", was also intended to invoke the concept "naked-human-eye-visible light", and likewise for dark as the absence of "light".

I'm aware of the basic process underlying the emission/absorption of photons via orbital jumping. My precise point was that the incident energy required to invoke a jump of sufficient size to produce "light" may be greater than that which would be omnipresent in a homogeneously energetic universe with a space-time geometry equivalent to that of the universe in which we currently reside. Certainly, as you mentioned, the relative amounts of energy stored in mass versus motion would play an important role.

Anyhow, my entire line of argument was all just an exercise in Devil's advocacy, seeing as how satisfactory resolution of Olbers' paradox is readily available within our current best understanding of physical law.
There are two ways of associating a sourcemap with a file in the spec: 1) http header and 2) //@ sourceMappingURL comment in the destination file.
You could expose the HTTP header only to to Rescue.js IPs, or alternatively they could conceivably provide an interface to make the map associations within the admin panel.
I actually believe that Siri does the best job of joining a party. Imagine in 5 years all the questions you can ask it. It's going to be like inviting the most intelligent person to the party, rather than the uninvited guest.
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My coworker built http://upti.lt/ - a trump card game. Pretty fun and very polished for a 48hr project.
So creating a fact checking Stack Exchange, like the one recently created for crowd sourcing prior art for patents.
I thought "The Story of Philosophy" was a readable roundup (rigorous doesn't really come to mind) ... written in 1926 so the ancients through 19th century, no Wittgenstein ... but the fact that it's still in print tells you something.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Story-Philosophy-Opinions-Philosop...
I find that some spam filters will mark your email as spam if it has a "poetic" subject line. For this reason I stick to the point. Perhaps it is because spam email subject lines are poetic as well.
Here's an interesting coincidence: I noticed that October 14 is also the date that Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1
This site doesn't work at all in mobile Safari
It does become suspect if the underlying logic is the same, though. I might call "clear and present danger" ethically problematic, but it was hardly unjustified.
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In fact, surprising as it is, you did not require a credit card number on your account, nor did it ask for one when creating new accounts.
Thanks so much for posting this Kevin! I was late to the party in terms of reading her blog, so I'm glad I now have "the best of" collection. You rock!
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#MakingWaves in Space. Congrats Felix
> Maybe "joe@bob.com" gets marked as spam in the mail client but not if it's from "Google+", etc.

I'm assuming they're just changing the display name on the email, rather than the 'From:' email address itself.

That is, instead of "Tabule <no-reply@tabuleapp.com>", it's now "John Smith <no-reply@tabuleapp.com>". The email doesn't get marked as spam because it's still claiming to be from the server that sent it, and it has the appropriate MX records and those sorts of things.
Yea, it's true on supply but this is a structural problem (i.e. minimum stocking sizes at 4K units, etc.) that would change if the demand was there.

Agree with [1] - that's partially already here with ProtoMold, Sunstone Circuits, Ponoko, etc. - centralized makes sense when you have economies of scale, but my comment was that this scale can actually be driven lower via technology.

I think that development / test costs are a big deal, but maybe the "automate" part is more in the EDA sense of the term - than "sudo make me a sandwich" where your design is compiled directly.
I think the analogy is wrong. EA didn't lose any physical copies.

I think a better analogy would be Chapters/Barnes & Noble (A Book Store) had accidentally put in free to use high quality photocopiers inside their store. The photocopiers were intended to be free to use, but not intended to be used on the books in the store.

Your argument isn't morally analogous because theft implies EA were deprived of something (EA still can sell and play their games), when the issue at hand is the EA botched up controlling access to their product. In your argument, Apple can't sell the stolen merchandise any more.

The more important part for EA would not to be to "punish" or claw back copies. That genie is out of the jar. They should just chalk it up to marketing and move on (fix the technical issue).
Your anecdote is very useful; thank you for writing it! I really appreciate your input. In general, your writing has been greatly appreciated.

Without observation, we wouldn't seek facts and we wouldn't use the scientific method. In the end, we want to explain what we see. What we see is vile... I'm optimistic we can end that. Every discussion is relevant and every experience worthwhile.

Again, thank you.
The BBC is airing a documentary about the fall in 4 weeks. It was 5 years in the making. Should be good.
Kathy was absolutely not trying to rank people by how much privilege they enjoy. And you're misunderstanding the "hard mode" metaphor; factors are not necessarily sole determinants. It has been demonstrated, for example, that in science being female is a hindrance and being male is an asset. [1] That doesn't mean that there are not some males who have it worse than some females; it means that, for a male and a female coming from exactly the same background with exactly the same experience, the male will be better off. Being male is a privilege, and being female is a drawback.

I can understand, however, that a lot of us white males (I am one too) find this threatening because it seems like it's intended to "wrack us with guilt," as you put it. I guess maybe there are times when that's the goal, but Kathy here clearly doesn't intend to shove that down our throats. She's trying to genuinely point out something that even people who've been in the industry for years (like she has) might not see. And that's jarring, and it's kind of shocking, but it is not supposed to be a guilt trip. It's just supposed to bring us to awareness of simple facts that many people these days aren't willing to acknowledge.

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...
I don't think that category is that new either, though it's hard to say if it's increasing in frequency. One very traditional category is desecration of cherished symbols: blasphemy laws are one very old example (still extant in some of Europe), and the U.S. has had recurring debates over whether flag burning should be outlawed, which it actually was for a time (basically the patriotic American's version of calling for Koran-burning to be outlawed).

I do think it's true that, at least since the 1960s or so, the U.S. has supported a basically unlimited range of political opinion (excluding the flag-burning issue). Perhaps something of a historical anomaly, though, since even in the U.S. that was generally not true earlier: between various sedition acts, laws suppressing communist and anarchist publications, laws suppressing anti-segregationist speech, etc., there have been significant restrictions on "fringe" speech through much of US history.
He's not making fun of the guy who made the jump, but of the marketers who called it "Edge of Space".
As the first poster you're referring to, my post was a direct response to THIS post. It was to say "I agree the vitriol toward you was uncalled for, please don't let it take away from the serious critiques of your post".

What is wrong with that? I was defending both his right to speech suggesting people shouldn't shit on him for his views and also the need for conversations to be two-way and for him to consider the contrarian viewpoints that were too often expressed hatefully.

I'm encouraged that I've received net-upvotes for that comment, but I worry that EITHER I didn't express myself clearly enough or that people on HN are really committed to not re-thinking their views on sexism given how many downvotes it received. I'll fully accept that it's likely that it was my poor wording.
> You have to somehow determine the use of all variables and functions and what proper names for them would be.

True, but in the mean time you can amuse yourself with hilarious variable names:

http://media.admob.com/gmsg.js => http://paste.ubuntu.com/1205328/

Or you can be lucky enough to find unobfuscated versions anyway, regardless of source maps:

http://cdn.optimizely.com/js/673.js

.. well, it was working yesterday.
This is what i did with silk : http://new.weavesilk.com/?5cp7
Previous record was 500k. Broke it by 16x. What does this mean for future content being distributed online? What did RedBull do that others are not?
I just noticed that this only applies to posts made to groups. My bad!
No, he's simply calling out the idiots who are calling it "Edge of Space".
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You all are being unfair. Whatever you think of the settlement, Microsoft agreed to these terms. Then it simply stopped abiding by the agreement.

Microsoft is clearly in the wrong here.
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Upon two years of employment at 500friends, we will provide $25k-$50k seed capital based on standard performance evaluations. In addition to the funding, we will help with various other aspects that starting a startup entails: brainstorming, crafting first decks, securing investor introductions, etc.

This could be the perfect opportunity for someone who isn’t quite ready to become a “founder” just yet and wants to learn the ropes while building an exciting company alongside a team of industry veterans and experts. Or maybe you're having second doubts about that photo sharing app...

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And send us a note at jobs(at)500friends.com if you think you're up for the task.

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Truth In Geolocation
If your minifier/obfuscator supports creation of source maps, it's simple. You just need to set a flag to tell it to create the map along with minified JS and you're good to go. UglifyJS2 and Closure Compiler are among those that can create a source map.
If it weren't for Hacker News, I would not have heard of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which I'm currently reading. I had also never heard of The Inner Game of Tennis despite playing tennis for four years in high school.

To your point, some of the books were hugely successful when released, but don't receive much attention today due to the newer books in the spotlight. We all live in different worlds so some books will be wildly popular to some groups and foreign to others.
To avoid being spam filtered you should set the from name to the person sending it, use you system address as the from email and use the sender's personal email as a reply to.
Second this. Thank you sir.
It’s not about ranking, it’s about checking and being aware of one’s privilege. It’s only ever detractors who seem to want to make it about ranking or anything like that. Of course, when going down to the micro level it gets complicated. It always is. It’s probably also not a good idea to be quick to mix macro and micro level views, but privilege is still a useful concept.

The important thing about privilege is that you exactly cannot judge people merely by what they bring to the table. That is just not possible. That’s not a witch hunt. People with privilege are not bad people. In fact, most people probably have some sort of privilege. It’s complex. That’s the point.

(That trope about the prosecuted white straight man there, that’s very cute by the way. How can you write that without your brain exploding? I never understand how anyone could come to that preposterous conclusion. What is wrong with those people?)
Shouldn't it have been a 'but' and not an 'and', then?
> https://twitter.com/kendall seems particularly egregious

Who just coincidentally works on a product which may (or not) be in commercial competition, and could just possibly be attempting to gain some measure of the internet fame his target has earned in actually producing something of value to many developers.

I can't help but notice in all of the vitriol, the loudest are those who appear to do little more that talk (on the internet).

(A completely unscientific analysis)
Haha, as a recent college graduate, I can only imagine how much preparation must've been necessary back in the day in order to do anything. Nowadays, you can be completely unprepared and still make it work as long as you've got an internet connection.
C'mon man that's arguing for the sake of arguing. You know that's not the same.
Alas, I don't know the answer to your question, but I can tell you that you are not hellbanned.
Ask HN: What start ups have good health and fitness benefits?
As an avid start up stalker I've noticed plenty of start ups out there offer gym membership reimbursement, healthy snack foods, and various other "keep our employees happy and healthy" benefits. I love that there are so many of these great benefits out there and think that there could be some great value in keeping your employees healthy and therefore happy and productive.

My questions are:
-Do your employees take advantage of these benefits?
-If so have you seen a good ROI?
-What benefit do you offer that your employees love most?
-What health/fitness benefit do they want?
Well, the founder of Lapham's, Lewis Lapham, was previously the editor for Harper's, so that's something else you might want to check out.

However, I feel that Lapham's is unique in that it picks a single topic for an issue, and then goes into great depth on that topic by interleaving primary sources and analysis.
I have never witnessed sexual harassment in any company I've worked at, but I have few doubts that it exists. While I mock the silly corporate training videos, I completely understand why they exist.

Every person who changes their view has an opportunity to change somebody else's by talking about it. Holding mysoginistic practices up to the light is the best way to dispel them (like so many other vile habits in society), so I disagree with you that it isn't useful.

People in technology want to believe that it is a wonderful world where your capabilities determine everything about your success, to the point that egos get wrapped up around it. Calling BS, that the tech world isn't a pure meritocracy, seems to cause people to question whether their current position is truly justified, and that seems to hurt some people's egos. Personally, I think those egos need to get trodden on.
I wasn't trying to rank which aspects are more career damaging.

I was pointing out that "we all have our struggles, just be nice to everyone and expect the same" is the most bland of platitudes and seems very dismissive of the real and measurable biases evident in our culture that this kind of thing is trying to address.

Any of the other handicaps or struggles you point out affect people who are not white, straight and male in basically equal numbers. So the comparison is not white/non-white vs average/autistic, it's native american gay women on the spectrum vs white straight male on the spectrum. That's the point. That's why I said you were missing the point.

I admit that I assumed you were a white straight male because you conflated being non-white/gay/female with being handicapped.
Could you elaborate here about your product and what it does, in detail? That would get me to sign up. :)
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> If you're western/male/white/straight you're playing life on 'very easy' mode.

When I read this, my interpretation is "Your achievements don't count because you are a white man."

Is that what you were trying to express?
I'm part of Gen Y and I just bought a new VW Golf R the other week.
I also regularly buy toys, gadgets, etc. for myself or my girlfriend - who is also part of Gen Y.
That being said, the first set of 6 bullet points are quite accurate of myself, but not so much my girlfriend.

I'm thinking the author has maybe generalised too much. Never mind that they didn't reference the source(accuracy) of their information.

EDIT: To be clear, by toys I'm talking about pc/console games, books, apps, etc.
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Not for the security of the application, but to protect intellectual property. It's much less tempting to "borrow" snippets of code when it's been minified.
> The much-misconstrued statement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that free speech does not give you the right to shout fire in a crowded theater is now being used to curtail speech that might provoke a violence-prone minority.

This is very incorrect to say it is misconstrued. In Schenck vs US, the Court was prosecuting a pacifist who distributed pamphlets protesting the involuntary draft in World War I, arguing that forced drafts constituted involuntary servitude and were therefore prohibited by the constitution.

The decision was an extremely bad one and the passage by Holmes was inflammatory rhetoric since the case was clearly never about shouting fire in a theatre, it was about peacefully and reasonably protesting unconstitutional action by the government.

The clear and present danger test was eliminated in 1969 when the Court established instead a "imminent lawless action" test as the line that speech must cross. Again though, interpretation of what speech will lead to "imminent lawless action" is not defined so this is a poor test as well. Clearly in some cases peaceful criticism of violent religious practices, as well as harmless cartoons that are not even disparaging have lead to imminent lawless action. A more reasonable view would be to note that those who engage in lawless action should be responsible for their own actions, regardless of whatever speech or opinions they claim made them engage in criminal behavior. No one makes you engage in criminality. It is something you choose to do.
The thing about privilege though, is that it's not about difficulty in life. Someone can have a very difficult life and be very privileged in many ways. Consider someone that is a straight, white, male, but that grew up in crippling poverty. They have a very difficult situation, but they still have privilege -- the privilege of not seeing the tribulations involved in being a woman or person of color.

That's what's privilege is about, not seeing things. As an example, my girlfriend recently was telling me about when she had a job that started at 4am, she constantly was harassed by taxi drivers (since she had to take a taxi for a short ride from the train). This is something I just never see because I'm a man. They don't harass me, and they don't harass anyone I'm with so I just never see it. I therefore have a form of privilege.

That's why the term privilege exists and is unrelated to easyness/hardness of life.
A key difference between Microsoft Windows and other operating systems is that it was declared a monopoly.

Being deemed a monopoly Microsoft Windows is held to different standards to all the other options that you mentioned.

That said, I think that we are approaching at time when Microsoft shouldn't be considered a monopoly.

did that happen just in the US, or did it also happen in the EU?
Why can't the article just come out and say what it means? Militant Islam scares the crap out of the West, and we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censorship to avoid provoking violence out of these people.

The simple lesson here is that if you want to stop non-believers from doing blasphemy, violent reprisals work.

And really, self-censorship is a practical stance, if not a principled one. There is a terrible slippery slope here, not only in encouraging islamists to demand more from us (what's next? threatening farmers who sell pork?) but also to send a message to other put-upon groups that they can demand the same thing - if they want it badly enough.

Yes, I wish that people would grow a spine and stop worrying about getting killed for hurting someone's feelings. But when I wonder whether I'd be willing to take that risk, the answer is no.
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Copy changes. "Knobs" (configuration parameter changes that affect product-level behavior, things a product manager could decide about.)

Sure you can abstract copy from your codebase or markup, but that's not trivial or necessarily a benefit.
Ah. An interface in the admin panel sounds best, but that would probably add steps to a deployment process...
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wish the contestants would open source their entries so that others can learn from them
Wow, that guy is a pompous ass. His doling out of nerd status is too ridiculous.
What I find chilling is in the age of the internet the comment sections on news sites are heavily censored (e.g. CBC). Which seems to allow a strange mix of viewpoints but what you don't see is what worries me.

As for insulting religions it's funny that most times it's religion against religion more than non-religious again religious.