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Interesting discussion. I can honestly say that I have never seen any of these come up.

In case anyone is worried, the sizeof('i') one looks, at first glance, like the most worrying one.

However, it is less serious than it might look. Given "char c;", sizeof(c) evaluates to 1 in both languages, it is just a single character constant like 'i' which causes a possible problem.

For anyone curious why, I'm not sure why character constants are int in C, but in pure C I think it is impossible to tell that a character literal is an int (as there is no function overloading, or type deductions).

In C++ however, with function overloading, we can tell. In particular, we really want:

std::cout << 1 << 'i' << std::endl;

To print the number 1, followed by the letter i. Therefore we need the letter i to be of type char, rather than another int.

(Fixed last 'C' to 'C++' : Thanks dbaupp)
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Having a partner to discuss with, learn from and teach makes everything both easier and harder. But it's not a substitute, rather it's a complement, to the books suggested above.

Easier because 2 sets of eyes and 2 minds will let you make smarter progress.

Harder because you have to think about the other person. But this is the good kind of hard.
Theology is what happens when you accept a claim first and try to rationalize it second. Perhaps apologetics is a better term. In any case, I find it profoundly backwards. Being able to entertain a claim is important, vitally so, but just as long as you're able to hold off accepting it.

As for Bush, it's factually true that he did have a depth of knowledge that was unavailable to me. What was harder to tell was whether he was using it correctly. Perhaps you have a telepathic sense of whether or not people are correctly using the information they have access to; perhaps you don't, but confirmation bias gives you the persistent illusion that you do.

I'll just close by saying that I don't claim to know very much at all more than provisionally--I'm willing to have my understanding updated based on new information, and I'm comfortable with people coming to different conclusions from different sets of information. What I'm not willing to do is grant other people write access to my beliefs based upon my emotional estimate of their credibility.
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This pull adds local markdown support:

https://github.com/rigoneri/syte/pull/93

Also, rigoneri remarks here that he doesn't want to rely on databases:

https://github.com/rigoneri/syte/pull/66
Considering kinetic and potential energy together, adjusted for weight, he was about .5% there. 6.310^7 (m/s)^2 vs 3.810^5 (m/s)^2
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Because the volume of arctic sea ice lost is much larger than the volume of antarctic sea ice gained. Also, an increase in antarctic sea ice was something predicted by even some of the earliest global warming climate models, so it is not in anyway contrary to what climate scientists think is happening/going to happen to the climate.
Seems like all public communication from uriel stopped about one year ago. Any idea what happened?
That appears to be the case. I've updated the post accordingly.
I think the point of the article is to channel subscribers for the author's "App Annie" service.
Does anyone know of a jQuery plugin that does this?
A few years ago I went through a patch of about 2 years when I gave up my s/w development job and founded a small online business selling electronics. It paid the mortgage, but not much else. It was exciting, but at the same time it also increased my respect for having a stable job with guaranteed income every week.

Have you thought about combining some form of software development with your love of music? Not sure what exactly ... maybe an educational app to learn how to read music scales or something.
you can choose the game window size from the settings (top left ico), it is because of the performance reasons
http://www.reddit.com/user/uriel/

Latest comment - 19 days ago.
No idea whatsoever. I dug up those links because I was completely unfamiliar with uriel before seeing this post.
it is not open source, probably only a small part of it will be open source so you can make your custom mods to it
Thanks for your contribution to the open source community, and with respect, I think page headers sticking to the top or bottom are huge screen estate wasters for wide screens, Twitter Bootstrap's default menu style, Gmail and Google Groups's new look are example come to my mind...
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Ask HN: Is it OK to treat HTTP/1.0 requests as if they were HTTP/1.1?
Doing this you could, for example, return gzip'd content in response to an HTTP/1.0 request, even though 1.0 does not support gzip Content-Encoding.

I'm pretty sure lots of clients still use 1.0, from command line clients like curl all the way up GUI browsers like IE.

What do you think?

That's my first question.

I have one more.
Except for MAC filters aren't relevant to this situation at all. Private VLANs, however, are.

A VLAN would keep these computers on their own network, and firewalls could be set up on the network side to prevent this stuff from happening.

A MAC filter would do nothing in this situation, because you are using their computer. Even if you had a MAC filter, these computers would be white-listed anyway.
The thing is if you don't do that, you risk being marked as spam because you obviously don't control the gmail.com or hotmail.com domain.
What if something like the world being flat or everything revolving around the earth or any important scientific theory was that one thing you weren't free to express a viewpoint on, the problem would remain as no one would ever convince people that conventional wisdom is wrong.

I think these protections around religion will mean that they will be the dominant thoughts on a lot of topics long after they otherwise would be relevant to those topics.
Though i think you're right, usually blasphemy is just insulting, is not always the case, defending the theory of evolution is considered a blasphemy by a lot of people. And don't think that is insulting.
I guess the days of "degrading gracefully when Javascript is disabled" are dead and gone.
Uh, dude. I very clearly, openly and publicly use KuraFire as my nickname, everywhere in conjunction with my real name, Faruk Ateş. I wasn’t trying to hide anything _on purpose_. By posting as myself, I told you who I was. Blame Hacker News’ awful design if you think I was trying to hide my author-ship.
No idea how your actual finance side works, but the obvious way to solve this seems to be to offer a reward to the first student to enter assignment data for each class. A couple of checks would be necessary, i.e, reward is only valid after two other students confirm the data, to prevent students just adding junk. Have you considered something like this? Market it like 'all your assignment dates ready for you, or get a red bull on us!'
He mentions that it was his "first ever parachute landing", but I can't imagine a SR-71 test pilot wouldn't have been trained in parachute landings. Any idea why?
This was his more recent account on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luriel
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Yes there are a few good jQuery plugins if you just Google for them. This was intended to be without jQuery or any other JavaScript libraries. Here are a couple jQuery plugins that look promising:

https://github.com/imakewebthings/jquery-waypoints
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No it's not.
Firstly you are talking about WAR. That's when armies of men, logistics and materiel are fired at each other.

Terrorism is assymmetric psychological warfare. It's done by forces who are extremely and utterly outclassed in strength.

You essentially are stretching the definition of terrorism so that you can use the hotter buzzword to demonize them and that period of Indian history.
Seriously, what's intellectually gratifying about it? It's outrageous, sad, worrying, but intellectually gratifying? That's a very big stretch.

There are places to go for this kind of news and here ain't it.
> there aren't really any left

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_God_(USA)

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/342577631....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutaree

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-green-phd/anders-behring-...

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/...
We're still using an @tabuleapp.com email address for the From header, just setting the from name to be the user's name. This way we don't violate SPF constraints, and we can accept replies to the notification emails.
Isn't https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luriel the same guy? He was fairly active in all recent discussions about Go. What happened to him?
Thank you kindly. And great job, got to check out the example.
Relevant: https://www.quora.com/Autonomous-Driving/With-autonomous-car...
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It is pseudo science because the post contains no scientific analysis of the statistic(s). Just because I use data from the large hadron collider in some mixed up argument for a geocentric universe doesn't make my argument scientific.

You can find all sorts of things if you cherry pick time intervals, especially with such noisy data as global temperature.

>Unfortunately the actual data hasn't aligned with the predicted output of the models for many years. This dataset is yet another example.

No it isn't. You are practicing pseudo science again. You have made no comparison between the temperature data and the models, and no argument as to why a system as complex as global climate should be stable enough for direct correlations with models over relatively short time spans.
His profile here:
http://uriel.cat-v.org/profile
Rationalization and greed blind people. And some will contest anything just to try and sound contrarian and critical minded.

HN has its fair share of people like that.
I think Laura's piece made it absolutely clear that she was speaking from personal experience and that her experience may have been different to others.

She also made it clear that she had experienced sexism (in some form) at a previous role.
Cheers. Using boostrap's grid for layout meant that we got it (mostly) for free.
(Presumably you mean "In C++" for the second one?)
Yes, same one, under a more recent account.
Here's the PDF that outlines the details of the acquisition:

http://webcast.softbank.co.jp/en/pdf/20121015_01/20121015_01...
No need to apologize. If everyone had seen it last time, it wouldn't be #1 right now.
I totally agree, Stafford's quote is "par excellence"
Bit of a shameless plug but I created something very similar here.

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I used this as the base to create my current blogs theme ( can be found in my profile ).

Hope this helps others who my be considering bootstrapping their blog! :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621154 - 8 days ago
> The minute that crude oil loses its relevance to the Western world, the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power.

Just as a general rule of thumb: not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are Arabs.
I post my stuff all over the web, I don't want to repost all that to my own personal site. Posting to all the other big players is great for discovery, grabbing all that content to post to my own site is great for email footers, business cards etc I built http://qiip.me exactly for this, see mine at http://qiip.me/edlea
I imagine he's simply stating that this was his first-ever ejection-seat landing. It's not like they kick you out of a plane in a chair with a chute attached to it to train.
The minute that crude oil loses its relevance to the Western world, the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power.

You forgot the thousand years when they were inventing mathematics while your ancestors were living in mud huts covered in their own shit. Europe wasn't even capable of syllogism until they stole the knowledge back from the arabs.
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This is patently false, as "the concept of property" predates all governments.

Coming from an ex-communist country, comments like yours that assume property/life/liberty must be somehow graciously "granted" by the big brother make me sad.
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And you say that like it's a bad thing, when in reality we could use a healthy dose of economic conservatism right now.

Ah, I do love you right-wingers. At the very moment we're overdosing on your ideology, you insist that it has never been tried and is needed more than ever!
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Imma let you finish, but I just want to tell you that the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME.

Seriously, until a man launches himself from the thermosphere, you can colour me unimpressed.
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What are the tropes in the first joke with the 1mm? Not being a native speaker, these must have been lost on me. The second quote, I agree, there is something there. I just wanted to point out it shouldn't matter how "useless" it is in the perspective of all things because that's pretty much 90% of humanity's doing and playing - just in case anyone took these too serious.
The examples in the piece seem to me to be so colored so as to confuse the whole issue. Actual limiting of rights occurs due to a power structure. The right to offend an unpopular minority or foreign group is usually easy to exercise and it doesn't take much guts to defend it. Rights are usually curtailed by the powers that be.

The article seems to imply that a monolithic "Western World" has been a fountain head of free expression until the problematic Muslims and a few left-liberals came along. So Jews in the last few centuries, or blacks during Jim Crow had wonderful free expression rights that an un-sullied European civilization had always cherished?

Fast forwarding to this time, quite a few people are in jail within the Western world for espousing extremely un-popular political views.
His luriel account about byline is a little strange now:

> about:	Undead.
The competition between religions for converts is competition among memes. Look at the number of bizarre little cults and would-be prophets among humans today; multiply that by 6,000 years or so of recorded history, and it's no wonder some of them have turned out to be world-shapingly successful.

The exact formula for a successful religion is different for different religions, places and times. But it doesn't stretch the imagination to think that violent suppression of expressions of disbelief, doubt, or disrespect might be part of a formula that allows a religion to spread and maintain power.

In other words, maybe religions that don't have prohibitions against blasphemy are quickly torn apart by heretics and skeptics -- or at least limited in size and power.

This isn't a justification of blasphemy prohibitions; it's merely an explanation of why a successful religion (in terms of number of believers) might have such a rule: because the rule is what causes the success.
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The first thing I tried to do (in current Firefox) failed: select text over two paragraphs, change text colour. The selection then changes. Not a great start.
> what's next? threatening farmers who sell pork?

No, threatening shop owners who sell alcohol. It's already happening in some regions of Russia that have large Muslim populations, like Dagestan.

Typically they'd send you a "flash card" with photos of your wife and kids. Then you're on the hook to pay money to Muslim militants, or your family suffers. Going to the authorities won't work, since many government officials are on the same hook.

Here's an article about these "flash cards" on a militant website: http://guraba.info/2011-02-27-17-49-46/28-facty/1344-2012-06... It's in Russian, you'll need a translator.
What feminists and theologians have in common--and how I differ from them, based on more familiarity with epistemology than you think--is that they never seem to entertain the possibility that they are wrong. I, on the other hand, don't actually claim to know anything about anything as mysterious as gods, or as complicated as human society. I just have working estimates.

I trust that other people have evidence that I don't and that they can't give to me. I can even accept it as some sort of indirect evidence, so that if other people unanimously tell me that Nevada exists and practically no one disagrees, I accept the claim. What I can't do is accept a seemingly dogmatic ideology like feminism based solely upon trusting some, but clearly not all women. I can be influenced by it, and when presented with direct and indirect evidence I can allow that evidence to upgrade my estimate, but in my experience feminists are unaccepting of anything short of full, dogmatic agreement. That--the attitude of any ideologue--is as good a marker as I've ever found that someone isn't using their evidence correctly.

My working estimate so far includes a pretty reliable heuristic--it's always more complicated. Feminism, like any ideology, is actually pretty enlightening from a certain perspective, since it raises a lot of issues that can complicate our understanding of the world. But the problem is, the world is even more complicated than the feminists themselves think.

So yes, I listen to indirect evidence, but I don't buy other people's conclusions wholesale. And far from being arrogant--I'm often more willing to throw my hands in the air and admit I really don't and can't know the answer to the question. I struggle with things like voting a lot because of this.
Or you could have used a domain with a validator written in PL/somelanguage as constraint
The same can be applied to Rails (let's compare to it) too:
1) You're at the mercy of the gem developers and Rails changes versions faster than Drupal, breaking backwards compability.
2) Number of gems also does have an influence on Rails app performance, at least on an app's startup time.
Not sticky at all in FF 15.0.1? Anyone else?
If this is a general discussion about sticky headers, then I'll have to agree with you guys. If you're referring to Balloon itself, it shouldn't matter what size the object you want to stick is. It should stick if you just inflate it with the API.
> "Blasphemy" is one of those things I do not get.

Blashphemy is just another word for criticism and ridicule. You cannot uphold a dictatorship of unsubstantiated claims if everybody is allowed to openly ask questions. This pattern is always the same in every authoritarian structure and is in no way specific to religion, religion only has a special word for it. Blasphemy is what the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes" did at the end of the tale: publicly questioning authority, which led to authority breaking down.

> What the heck is a "hate crime"?

For example public calls for Jews to be gassed.
There is another aspect to this. A ban on blasphemy, in a wide sense of the world is very natural to us. We are used to living under these restrictions. They are imposed by religion, law & taboo/culture almost everywhere including the west.

The blatant simple versions are religious laws often absorbed into law about denying the truth of a religion, worshiping other gods, etc. There are often also similar restrictions on criticism/denial of monarchs. When these get stronger and more elaborate, we tend to call these "State Religions" (eg north korea) hinting at how closely we associate religions with blasphemy/heresy laws.

A more modern "light" varient has cultural pressures at the core. It is considered bad form almost everywhere to openly criticize someone's "beliefs." Beliefs must be mutually respected. They cannot be held against someone. They are treated as a part of one's ethnicity. As far as I can tell this has two sources. The original religious law one (Dawkins has fascinating memetic explanation for this) and a sort of cultural compromise reached enough times following religious wars that it has become deeply ingrained in cultures.

We are predisposed to respecting blasphemy and heresy laws.
2 unclear articles.

Antirez's philosophy seems to be: In general if there is a problem at the work place between individual A and B, I think it is always an error to talk about sexism, even when the root cause is some asshole not respecting you because you are a woman. Instead the problem should be addressed in a sexual agnostic way.

Shanley's rebuttal to this is: Oh, OK, Salvatore. Let’s definitely not talk about sexism in the workplace, even if THAT’S THE fing ROOT CAUSE OF A PROBLEM. * ... * even though sexism is BY ITS fing NATURE a systemic force, especially in the workplace where issues around gender inequality are created and enforced on a cultural and institutional level.
And goes on to say What you are proposing is not a viable solution in any way (apologies if censoring swearwords offends.)

Shanley's point seems to be that that sexism isn't just/merely an interaction between individuals and any simplistic solution that tells person A to act identically to person B regardless of any attribute of B except for skill in performing their job is naive.

If my summary is correct then I agree with S that this is not a problem that can be solved simply. And I think that A has not looked at all aspects of sexism in the workplace in his original article.
I n addition to "changing all notification emails for Tabule to be from the person who triggered the notification" you could also give the user control of how many emails they receive. i.e. address the actual email volume problem, not just the perception of it.
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The BBC is heavily censoring comments in the news. Victims of UK killers in Afghanistan have no voice there.
Enable the `showdead` option.

He was hellbanned for voicing a dissenting opinion in a thread about sexism.
His example might be a page header, but there is nothing that explicitly states that this needs to be for a page headings. In fact this particular project doesn't seem to be intended for that purpose at all, more for long list of grouped items.

While I think your opinion is valid, I'm not convinced addressing it at this particular project is warranted. Just sayin' :)
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