skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not directly related to this article, but on the click through (primer link) there's an idea that really resonated with me:

If you're western/male/white/straight you're playing life on 'very easy' mode.

This probably betrays my 'gamified' lifestyle, and maybe it trivializes the issue somewhat, but its a much more compelling argument to me than using the term 'privilege' which is loaded with baggage (hey! I worked hard to get where I am. I'm not some privileged kid who's parent spent big to send me to a good college...)

It's really an idea that connects to my demographic, rather than disconnecting them, which is what a lot of this discourse does.

So you're a great hacker? sweet. You did that on EASY mode.

That guy over there, he's transgender, he's playing on hard and he's where you are despite that.

Those hackers girls in the corner? They're playing on nightmare difficulty.

Just a little bit of gentle respect for that goes a long way.

It's a really great metaphor to explain these ideas to people I know. Just my $0.02
When the background-color of the <body> is dark Chrome/Safari use a lighter thumb colour (Squarespace has a background colour of #181818).
Because using some bespoke OS costs a fortune and accomplishes nothing.

Windows is more than capable of providing a secure environment for this sort of thing. Wat you're looking at is some shoddy work that was probably done by some contractor years ago.
I really do believe arguments about the 'freedom' of speech should be kept to the context of government versus the populace.

The government censors people through force, sometimes in autocracies this quite literally means a gun to a dissenter's head.

It is a separate thing all together, On the other hand, if individuals freely choose to criticize, flame, or just simple disassociate themselves with someone else because they disapprove of their opinions. We should all be free to do at least this without fear that merely by agreeing with the majority we will be accused of 'censoring' the minority.
Agreed. Any relationship where you can freely "entertain ideas without accepting them" (- Aristotle) is something to be cherished. pg wrote an essay on this topic, for anyone interested:
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
It's twitter-endemic, if not twitter-specific, for the simple reason that it's hard to express a coherent, well-justified argument in 140 characters, but easy to express anger.

The anger might even be justified; just don't go to twitter expecting to read the justification.
Yeah, you're going to have to tell me more about what this actually does before I give you write permission on my private repos.
Euclid didn't use elaborate penmanship: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html
It's actually quite scary to read the comments on TFA and see that indeed, people did know about this breach.
99% of users don't want to create content, so I wouldn't emphasize that as a use case if you want the page to convert.

A slideshow might be better, maybe? Show the broader map, zoom in, show the most amazing/scenic/interesting place?

Have you heard of "Not For Tourists" guides? Worth googling and stealing some verbiage. Remember: your established competition has probably been testing headlines for months/years!

The "I'm surrounded by scenic, interesting places that I don't know about" problem isn't one that I feel like I have, but I'm just one guy.
Four centuries, plus all the ones after the birth of Jesus Christ, also.
"What this illustrates is the dangerous precipice that the world of blogging is hanging on to"

If I may... this wasn't the world of "blogging". This was the world of Twitter et al.

Blogging itself actually has a very interesting property, which is that even if somebody tears you a new one in their own blog post, you don't actually have to know unless you go looking for it. It's a lot easier to blog a controversial opinion than it is to twit it, Facebook it, or post it here or in a forum, because they all have the characteristic that any body with a pulse and a computer anywhere in the world can essentially stick their reply in your face. After the first couple of thousand nasty replies, this can start to wear on a person.

When it first got going around 2000, I found this very interesting, and I still think that there's something about that model that we need to find a way to recover in the Next Great Social Medium. It isn't perfect, because you don't get that immediacy that you get in a forum, and it's easy to end up feeling like a lone voice in the wilderness due to lack of feedback, and presumably that's why this medium faded as a means of generating community, killed by the immediacy and quick feedback hits of the more popular community mechanisms. To me it's pretty abundantly clear that all the "any idiot in your face" community technologies ultimately start falling apart (requiring either an inhumanly thick skin or flat-out sociopathy), and somehow I'd love to see if there's a way to build something a little more immediate and a little less likely to isolate people entirely, while at the same time retaining the fact that you aren't assaulted by what feels like an entire Internet of knaves and fools every time you open your browser.
Yes. This. Very much so.
OP here. This was build over 48 hours during this year's Rumble and boy was it stressful. I went solo and it was my first Rumble. Coding for 2 days in a row with this tempo is insane. Two things would've happened if I continued like this: 1. Riches. 2. Death :)

I really enjoyed the whole experience though and I'm really happy with how the app came out. I've had this idea of a chat-roulette remix with an educational theme for a really long time, and I took the Rails Rumble as an excuse to work on it really hard for a short period of time, and test the idea on a small scale.

There was a lot of feature cutting, sadly, but I'll get back to work on it when the judging period is over. Thing like messages and profiles were left out, for example. But also some other, really innovative features that just can't be developed in a weekend (even though I tried).

Let me know what you think :) Also, do take the Rumble at least once in your life, if you haven't yet, or try to build a finished product in a weekend. It's enlightening.
Yes, I agree with you. I actually didn't have software in mind when I wrote my post, but the differences you note are important.

Planning is indeed a mess. However, there are 'breaks' between 100-year plans and building-scale architecture such as neighborhood development, block-level revitalization projects, etc., which don't offer a greenfield opportunity but do allow a planner to make some important choices. Ideally, well-designed rooms would create an opportunity for homes, clusters of homes, streets, clusters of streets and business districts, and up and up. Obviously it is unlikely.

The reason it's unlikely is the patterns are so opposed to how things are done. You mention the bank. Commercial is actually addressed, but there is no place in Alexander for an isolated, cold, commercial bank branch that requires a commute for its employees. Alexander's vision for our work is too radical to happen right now.
A more useful, personal GitHub activity stream (Rails Rumble)
Pandoc's PDF quality is astounding if you're willing to accept that it goes through a LaTeX intermediary. I recently fought with this while building Docverter[1], my online document conversion service. I ended up using an HTML intermediary so users could style with CSS. If you want to see what Docverter's quality looks like, you can check out the PDF of my resume here: http://bugsplat.info/resume.pdf

(disclaimer: I launched Docverter on HN a few weeks ago)

[1]: http://www.docverter.com
Perhaps you're legitimizing his insult because of who he is? I certainly think that if some random person made the same comment, many would not rush to their defense.
DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server
> "We are finally getting to the point where a critical mass of people are not going to tolerate sexist misinformed crap as they encounter it, and will instead speak out en masse."

Except this critical mass of people behave more like an angry mob with pitchforks and torches, rather than a room full of shouting retorts.

The internet has given us a remarkable freedom in expression - it has also lowered the floor for discourse. Instead of writing an angry email explaining how you're wrong, there are more people who will post your address, take satellite pictures of your home, threaten to kill/rape you... I could go on.

I don't think this post was about the people who disagreed with him (for the record, I do disagree with his first blog post), but rather the extreme, vitriolic, disturbingly violent blowback that we see so much these days.

And this applies to all subjects and all sides. On the internet it seems if you say something sufficiently controversial, you will be deluged by a flood of extreme sociopathic behavior. We're talking well beyond just ad hominem attacks and insults - many a blogger have been entirely silenced from blogging due to personal threats, mob outrage, incitement, and simply inhuman levels of anonymous cruelty that, prior to the internet, were the sole territory of deranged psychopaths.

> "He espoused his opinion, and then a whole bunch of other people espoused theirs. Nobody was silenced. Quite the opposite, actually."

I don't think the mild, "I think you're stupid and wrong" responses are why he's quitting Twitter.
Seems to handle the traffic pretty well. Right now the game is poorly explained so it's hard to tell if it's any fun, but it seems like it could be good.

To the dev: Why 8 canvases? Did you find that you get better performance that way?

Also, putting level 13 enemies right near the starting area seems like a really poor idea. You should add a level indicator.
I think I've read that excerpt about 5 times and I always love it!

Thanks for sharing
I told my personal story in a comment to Laura, which I then sent to Faruk. That's not a "fake additional anecdote", it is what actually happened.

It means no more -- or less -- than that. Just one person's story. That I changed MY views in no way means anyone else will. Had I thought this through, I would not have written it because you're absolutely right -- it was not useful.
> It's not as he presented his case as stone-cold fact and call me crazy, but aren't personal anecdotal experiences exactly the things that give birth to opinion?

We are talking about the experiences/opinions of a man about sexist treatment of women. This is a classic example of someone speaking over the voices of people actually suffering from sexism and then making opinions that dismiss key issues about sexism. While the author is totally entitled to that opinion and speech, why would anyone be surprised that people got angry about the post?
As the wikipedia article notes, this is based off the movie, and not the comic.

The comic didn't evolve a storyline per se for quite some time; there's very little continuity between pages. It is also, do note, a full-page comic. The artwork is fantastic and beautiful, with a particular excellence in linework and architecture. There is somewhat of a homage in Gaiman's Sandman series at various times, notably in The Doll's House.

One curious element is the highly racist (to modern sensibilities) depiction of an african child, one of Nemo's companions. For some reason he didn't make the film.

Little Nemo ran under two or three different headings and had a hiatus in publishing concurrent with a switch of publications. In my opinion the quality went downhill towards the later years. On the whole, the comic has a compelling and uniquely unreal quality to it; I recommend it highly. As they were originally published about 100 years ago, the copyright should be expired: I believe at any rate that the comic is available on the torrent network of your choice.

The film was a decent bit of animation, and the story largely dispenses with the plot of the comic. That is actually to the good; a more literal translation I feel would have been impossible. The only flaw I might single out would be the relative weakness of its musical numbers: if Disney had not made it necessary for any animated film to have songs, it is doubtful that anyone would have thought to add them. On the whole, while it is quite excellent on its own merits, it falls somewhat short of Windsor McKay's mastery of sequential art.

The film seems to be available on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/257552
You forgot one of the accents. "Résumé" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
Here's a video capture of SymbOS in action running on an MSX turbo R (http://www.faq.msxnet.org/msxtr.html). The Turbo R itself looks really cool, I kind of want one now.
>It's also not simply offending language that equals defamation.

Based on the post, many of the tweets were insult - direct attacks against the author, and not simply criticism/opinions.

All but 4 states in the US also recognize cases of defamation per se, where the truth of the claims is irrelevant, and the damages are predetermined. Claims which impute the following fall under that category (I've omitted 2 of the 4):

1. Allegations or imputations "injurious to another in their trade, business, or profession"
2. Allegations or imputations "of loathsome disease" (historically leprosy and sexually transmitted disease, now also including mental illness)

Many of the tweets directed at him fall into that category, and hence are defamation per se.
Laura eventually made it clear that she wasn’t claiming there is no problem, but she did it so poorly that a huge number of people who read her post didn’t get that from it.

Similarly, I (original Primer author) did a poor job making it clear that I never meant to suggest that every woman has this problem. The goal was to inform people that this is happening and this is a problem, even though you _probably were not seeing it_. Kathy’s experience and post are a very personal revelation of the painful journey of discovery (of this fact) that she went through.
The "bad person" here is whoever decided to let websites turn off mobile zoom. My web browser on my device is mine, dammit, and it'll render websites the way I want. Web site creators have no right to control my user experience.
Yes, it is a good metaphor. Credit goes to John Scalzi (linked in the original Primer): http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
Awesome, scenic shots can convert like crazy too so you may want to find a professional photo of a great art installation, or fantastic shot that captures a neighbourhood.
> Having zoom enabled and changing device rotation can cause formatting issues on some devices.

Then fix your goddamn site instead of gimping the user's web browser.
AFAIK, most houses (not apartments) in the US have forced air circulation systems along with heating. Basically this means a fan will suck air out of the house and push air from outside, even with all windows closed.

So your advice is likely wrong for a lot of people. YMMV.
I do not think everyone fully appreciates how much overall application performance could be network-bound.

This is definitely the sort of tuning everyone should be doing on their production instances.
"A philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense." (LW, 1944)
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It would be a great metaphor if it were extended out to all the handicaps people face.

That straight white male programmer who has struggled with mental illness since adolescence? He's on nightmare difficulty too.

The guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth but lost his father as a child? Hasn't been too easy for him either.

The girl who grew up with loving parents from a poor neighborhood and didn't see her first computer until college? Well, she's got some huge handicaps, but some pretty solid roots too.

I've been privileged in many ways, and I've also struggled in many ways. I'd like to think that I played the hand I got as well as I could, and extended a hand out to those who didn't quite have the same privileges whenever possible. I wouldn't really expect otherwise from anyone else.
I have something similar that I've been using for a few years to generate my own résumé; just decided to go ahead and throw it up on Github.

Git repo: https://github.com/buu700/html-resume

My resume: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2...
Actually I did some testing and 8 canvases seemed to be the fastest for this kind of gameplay. Using some buffering/etc.

Will change the map a bit ;)
The XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1118
Yes, I suppose I was. Her post reminded me of the posts I used to make, and so yes, I guess I was implying that she, too, was wrong. I agree with you; it was not useful. I have nothing more to add.
How does someone make something like this? I see there are bunch of images and they are using css sprite technic but is there a tool that helps you generate an animation like this? Or is it manually done the hard way.

http://www.google.co.jp
One accomplished person should not be belittling the accomplishments of another.

A good check to see if something is a joke is to see if you thought it was funny. To me it looks as if he wants to make this seem totally insignificant, and to increase his own stature by appearing to be above (pun intended) this all.
Unfortunately GitHub's OAuth API doesn't let us get read access to private repos without also having write access. http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes

We would like to make write access optional later on for users who only need to deploy public repos. I'm not sure if this is actually possible or not though. It'd be great if GitHub added more authentication options.
Rescue.js
The above mentioned approach is significantly simpler to implement and easier to measure (when it works! ha) than uniquely generated promo codes. So you're also looking at a cost/benefit trade off.
Futuristic Rocketship schools redefine teaching
Seems that services like LinkedIn have made self-formatting your resume a thing of the past?
I've been reading it off an on for about a year and a half. I'm halfway through right now. At times it is extremely captivating and pretty funny, then the next chapter I'll get completely lost. I'm only using Sparknotes as a guide, which is probably my first mistake.
My comment about sensitivity was mostly directed at the people flipping out about what you wrote, but it's nice to have confirmation that you too aren't so sensitive that you stop writing altogether. It makes sense for you to ditch Twitter.
Thanks to the organizers and sponsors, it was a lot of fun!
"Journalist" has somehow mutated into "Blogging" and "Live streams", with a page hit, view count, ad revenue pumping machine that tries to incinerate whatever relics remain.

I agree with your notion of "journalist". A rebranding of the burnt name may be in order. I like the idea of calling those who practice the craft Detectives.
Summary: Vicious responses are lazy and should be considered ignorant until proven otherwise.

I agree with you that vicious responses to different positions on emotionally charged issues are common. The word 'vicious' bothers me though; it's not ok to use non-arguments and threats or insults to respond to an argument. If someone told me that Abraham Lincoln was the current President of the United States I don't think I'd respond viciously... I'd tell him he was an idiot and show him some evidence on my phone. If he kept it up I think I'd just leave because I'm not responsible for someone else's idiocy. If someone argues with a more complicated position that I hold dear, then I can see how I might respond viciously if I had no actual counter-argument or if I didn't want to spend time to argue with this person. I think you're recognizing how the world works, for complex issues with a bunch of ignorant people you're likely to see very vicious responses because most people cannot articulate the reasoning behind their position or choose not to spend the time to and instead use violence (virtual or otherwise). Perhaps some have real counter-arguments and choose not to present them and instead just respond with arrogance; if so that's sad because no one is informed by better understanding.

My initial thought after reading your post was that your view is practical and accurate, that people like Antirez who care more about their primary work (Redis in this case) and not some other issue they have a perspective on (sexism in software) will be drowned out and crushed under the common view and those who choose to elevate a particular view or cause to their primary purpose. I think (with disdain) about "pundits" whose job is to promote some position regardless of its merit; people who spend their lives arguing passionately for whatever pays the most... that is ugly and works against adapting a culture to handle new ideas and situations.

EDIT: Spelling only.
Well, the guy you are referencing has taken no position that we know of here, as far as what we were currently referencing, so I call shenanigans.
Yes, free fall can be fuzzy due to clothes and whatnot. But someone who didn't use a drogue chute should be able to have a shorter free fall time yet still be eligible to claim the record for longest free fall time, all else being equal.
If you ever want to get together, grab a drink, and hack on something then definitely drop me a line in my email.
The truth is that there is a story behind everybody, and there is good fortune and misery to be found at every level.

Don't presume to know about an individual or their circumstances until you get to know them well and be prepared to be surprised.
How does someone make something like this?
(That's from about 4 centuries after Euclid. It would really help to have manuscripts from Euclid's time -- for example, it's suspected others added the definitions later and perhaps injected a neopythagorean POV not in the original.)
A good post. An added complication is that it can be tempting to (some, not all) math or engineering focused people to look at problems through a sort of "universal" math or engineering focused lens. Yet fields like theology, social affairs, law, economics, gender issues, or politics have their own (and multiple) philosophies and systems of logic and shoehorning any sort of universal, math or engineering-oriented system of logic onto them is likely to bring discord.

In my (limited) experience, religious engineers/mathematicians often seem to be aware of this concept and can balance scientific philosophies with those of theology and faith while recognizing the distinction between them.

In the same way that there are devoutly religious people who twist every matter in life into a religious matter, I wonder if there are "devoutly technical" people who twist everything into calculations and analysis.
Right. But the atmosphere is exponential, so the idea would be to have a high drag/mass for the start, to slow you down before compression heats things up.

A capsule is small and heavy, so it'll have enough inertia to push up the compression and hence reentry heat.
Xnomad 0.1 (tiling window manager for os x) released
How so? EA can flip a switch to remove the games, and claim there was never a valid license. As long as EA honors the orginal terms of the coupon, I don't see how the "cheaters" were wronged.
Oh, wow, I can imagine that must've been pretty bad. What did you end up doing about the report?