skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your reply, and yes you are right, but I want to achieve is an app you could use on your smartphone that can show photos (and later videos) that have been taken in the place you are standing, in other words, you can see what happened when you weren't there.
"One, if EA is technically incompetent enough to allow such a severe bug to exist, they won’t have the technical skills to discern who used the promo code more than once."

Not necessarily true - we don't have insight in to how their system is setup; and while it may not be tracking redemption of the codes on that level, it could also be attached to any transactional data that they have in place (for reporting purposes etc).
Being critical about yourself is probably not your greatest asset. Just my impression from your two comments here...
Is there a link to the thing that happened to set off this post? I read the previous post and its comments and saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Homer's works are probably the worst example in that list for that point since they are the only ones there that were created for solely the enjoyment of the masses (perhaps Shakespeare would be comparable). Unfortunately these works have now accumulated a thick elitist veneer that may get in the way when you're approaching them for the first time. When your prof says that the Iliad is the bedrock of Western civilization and stands in awe you tend to view it differently.

Similar with Marquez's novel, he tried to emulate oral histories of old folks. So I'm afraid you didn't have a chance to come to these works in your own terms but had to treat them as parts of the canon.
Except that, in that case, Apple will loose a lot of money
from the free hardware.
In this case, the only real loss for EA is the bandwidth.
Since it would be safe to asume that the downloaders
wouldn't have bought a lot of games at the current prices.
Before launching I do:

* Minify Html, Css, Js using the YUI Compressor

* Compress images using tinypng.org

* Run the tests I wrote during development

* Do a final stress test using blitz.io

* Generate a XML Sitemap for search engines and edit the robots.txt

* Run a spellcheck using checkdog.com

* Setup monit to make sure my app restarts after a crash ;)

Guess that's it ;) Funny side story: I launched my weekend project receiveee.com last week and failed big when moving to production. During developing I ran the app under admin, but I ofc didn't when moving to production. BUT, my app includes a smtp server which couldn't run on port 25 without admin rights. No error appeared, but not a single mail arrived. Even took me 10 minutes to find the problem :D
-- Or your investor's friends

Or business acquantances or political pet-project holders. pretty soon, the world looks small, though...at the top :/
Bonus points for a nice, mobile optimized, interface. Great site, thanks for sharing.
I don't think he stuttered--he laid his point out his succinctly.

What exactly were people taking issue with? I couldn't tell from the post.
As @xymostech mentioned, any time you're in the atmosphere, there's obviously air resistance (i.e., drag) as a factor. So according to most physicists, true freefall would only exist in a vacuum.

If you don't consider air resistance to be a "force besides gravity," then it becomes a somewhat semantical question of where you draw the line of "apparatus intended to slow the fall." In your statement above, what does "you" mean?

Even without a drogue, your vertical speed can be influenced by such subtleties as what you're wearing. If I wear a zero-porosity nylon jumpsuit and fly on my belly, I'll fall at roughly 120mph. If I fly in baggier clothes, or throw on a sweatshirt over that jumpsuit, I can slow to 115mph. If I'm wearing a heavier rig with a bigger parachute in it, my rate of speed will increase. You get the idea.

So again, semantically, if we ignore the fact that air resistance is a force besides gravity, would the only way to achieve freefall be to jump from an aircraft naked, wearing no parachute?

Ultimately, no matter what you're wearing, terminal velocity is different for every person or object falling through the atmosphere. It's the sum total of gravity and drag, semantics or not. :)
"You are wrong because of things you cannot know" - impossible to argue with, not very useful. (Disclaimer: I don't know Kathy Sierra, or rather, the first time I heard about her was when she quit blogging, I think, because of that vile stream of hate spam. I have nothing against her, in fact I believe what people said at the time, that she made great contributions before leaving).
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Some people are going to say that he was in the right, and some will argue this is a consequence of being wrong, but this doesn't matter. What this illustrates is the dangerous precipice that the world of blogging is hanging on to, where the violent hatred that spews forth when anyone writes a remotely controversial opinion threatens to silence any opinion that sways too far from mainstream consciousness.

The fact that the first comment that was posted here was just more critique about the original blog post and how supposedly "wrong" it was illustrates how much of a problem this has become. Whether or not his opinion is wrong doesn't matter. What matters is that he expresses it as an alternative perspective to mainstream conciousness.

Problems are solved and society is moved forward by a multitude of various opinions, all right and wrong in their own ways, interacting with each other. Each perspective provides a unique method of solving a problem which may not yet exist. The more perspectives we have, the more ideas we have to work from when we try to solve a problem.

By violently critiquing such controversial stances, we are indirectly silencing those voices, and ultimately destroying our own ability to find progressively better solutions to problems, because we get stuck inside a single point of view and refuse to move outside of it. It is not simply a matter of ignoring trolls either, because many of the most hurtful comments, at least in my experience, are otherwise highly intelligent people who completely missed the point of what you were trying to say, and have spent 10 minutes writing a scathing critique against a nonexistent problem.

If we continue to censor ourselves, it will destroy us.

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
You simply jump to the east. :)
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long story short, a blog post about sexism I wrote generated a reply that remembered me that I was probably not in a communication environment I was happy to be in... so I'm finding new ways to communicate that don't involve tweets.
Easily the sexiest resume I've ever seen!
But adding Austrian added additional information. I'm sick of these arrogant hn title editors that think they know best.
The site looks neat, but it's a bit hard to read here since the text is wider than the window for most window widths (Chrome 22.0.1229.79, Kubuntu 12.04, 125% zoom - it fits at 100% but that's too small for my eyes).
Certainly noted
I have no idea who you are or what you do, so this comment includes a certain naïveté. That being said, turning off comments doesn't accomplish anything. As you see here, your article was posted, and there are comments, and you're reading them, and you have no control over them. People will have opinions and that has nothing to do with you.

The article itself-—as with any article that discusses sexism--was guaranteed to be controversial from the get-go, given its topic. Given that you seem to be somewhat popular, a controversial post from a popular person will elicit all types of discussion, including lots of flaming. I'm not sure why this surprises you, or why you are responding so strongly, but I would definitely encourage you to reconsider; I love interacting with people whose articles I read frequently, and I imagine the same is true in your case with your audience.
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It's definitely not full multicast. Flash doesn't support multicast (if I recall correctly).

They're probably doing a single stream to CDNs which then fan them out.
The medium is not the message.

With that being said, antirez, it seems that your experience got too noisy and counterproductive and it makes a lot of sense to disengage a bit. You're missing out on very little.

Also, thank you for your work.
Everyone is counting Chrome at 30% or higher. Net Applications is the only one that counts it at under 20% and IE having the most market share. What he hell kind of stats are they taking there? For some reason Ars Technica keeps using theirs stats over others, too, even though I'm sure their own website's stats are a lot more similar to the others than to Net Apps' numbers.
https://twitter.com/antirez

"People should stop writing articles about sexism in tech. It's not interesting and IMHO it's not the central problem for most women in tech."

Edit: Oops, left out the blog post: http://antirez.com/post/different-take-sexism-it.html
Having a slightly larger size is a non-issue for people who aren't willing to spend at least the 100 dollars...
It's definitely an interesting question to consider. Our rule of thumb in skydiving is, "When in doubt, whip it out." You'd rather deploy too high than too low. There's a big hunk of granite coming up pretty fast that you don't want to interface with. :)

In Felix's case, deploying too high could be a huge problem as well. So I'd be very interested to hear why/how he chose to deploy where he did.

And yeah, under normal circumstances you could possibly extrapolate your altitude...but the problem is that once you can no longer see, you can't go back and get a good idea of where you were at prior to it happening. Visor fogging creeps up fast (even from 12,500'), and once it does, it's very difficult to even find a baseline from which to extrapolate.
Amazing reading this. Especially his thought process. After he comes out of "blackout", he goes right to work running a checklist and taking inventory of his assets. The part about the seatbelts, in this context, is a priceless example of how to keep your cool. Sometimes you don't want to know or need to know everything.
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It is a shame to see such hate against people. @antirez was attacked for openly sharing his thoughts about sexism. The sad part is that those who attacked him seek respect for their points of view yet do not give it to others.
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I tend to treat twitter as a broadcast platform and largely ignore the replies anyway - but I certainly won't discuss sexism on there. It's ... far too easy for topics like that to generate a flash mob; if you don't find "ignore it" to be an acceptable response then leaving seems fair enough - but I'd recommend to anybody on twitter to ignore any replies to controversial statements in any case.
No problemo! Roughly around 30 servers, give or take.
Given the name, I thought this was going to be some kind of new private science funding source. Got my hopes up for a second. Cool idea, though, and I love the design. This thing definitely needs "subreddits" for different fields.
How is that discussion room?
(edited because it was in the wrong place in the conversation)

Your thoughts about sexism, at least how to express them? Absolutely. I don't want to diminish you or your ability to assess a complex system, but it seemed to me (and a lot of other people) that you expressed a great deal of ignorance and a lot of classic misguided assumptions based on limited and biased personal anecdotal experience.
But if you don't agree after considering that, then that is just that. I only urge you to take this opportunity to do some thinking. Isn't that why you put your thoughts out publicly in the first place?
This is absolutely fascinating...something I hadn't considered. But makes perfect sense. Thanks!
You were right though. It seems wrong to me that you should be silenced by the tyrannical ramblings of the brain dead mob.
It's the Altmetric score I think.

https://altmetric.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/83337...

Based on number of tweets, blog posts, news stories etc.
"I'm finding new ways to communicate that don't involve tweets."

They are likely to be old ways (compared with Twitter). You've hinted already on your website, if I understood correctly, about the ideal form of communication on the web. If people want to comment on one of your articles they should write one of their own, giving themselves the time and space to construct something worth reading.
I think it's an interesting idea. Better than a lot I have seen. It is something I can almost see myself using! I think it's an interesting way to see the history of visits to a place!
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Yes, there are many reasons besides growth. For example: for gay marriage, for closing gitmo, for pulling out sooner from Afghanistan, etc.

These aren't small issues. They are reasons people vote the way they do. They have nothing to do with growth.

Also, just because you've run a successful investment firm or company, doesn't mean you understand well the government's role in creating or hindering growth. I consider those pretty different skill sets.

Also, the issues that are commonly identified as problems for growth in our industry aren't being addressed by either candidate. These include immigration reform, patent reform, copyright reform, updating regulations around privacy and health records, etc.

Also, those that are already rich have a smaller marginal utility for money, and don't personally care as much about taxes. As an illustrative example, for me personally, a lower cap gains rate directly translates to more angel investing.

The common mistaken opposition to low cap gains is that tax rates don't motivate people. The real reason to support low rates is how the increased return would be re-invested. This yields yet another idea no one is proposing: lowering income taxes to match cap gains rates (as opposed to the more common reverse to close the gap).

Finally, presidents don't really drive growth, so the entire premiss of your question is incorrect imho.
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This appears to be the best book ever written. oO;
The main difference is that the skydiver started with a velocity of 0. The astronaut in low earth orbit is going to be starting with a velocity of something like 28,000 km/h.
Re-reading this a day later, ouch. "heard immunity"?

It should read "herd immunity".
based on limited and biased personal anecdotal experience.

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?

Since when did sharing a belief/stance/daring to opine on something demand anything other than anecdote? I don't like that thought pattern at all.
> By that measure, all writers writing today are, technically, postmodern

By that measure, isn't absolutely everyone, living or dead, a postmodern artist?
A little more mundane and uplifting SR-71 story about a ground speed check.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rec.avia...
Neat! :D

Minified JavaScript :(

But from one Simon (canvas lover) to another I decided to chewing through the plastic bars of minification to see what was going on. In your loop you're doing:

beginPath()
arc()
fill()

You could get away with nothing but arc() and moveTo() in your loop instead and make it a bit more efficient on slower (mobile) devices, because only one new path has to get created.

Your moveTo's x coordinate is going to need to be offset by the radius since thats where each starts. So it would look something like this:

s.beginPath()
loop start
s.moveTo(10 * b + 5 + 4, 10 * c + 5)
s.arc(10 * b + 5, 10 * c + 5, 4, 0, 2 * Math.PI, d)
loop end
s.fill()

I didn't try out the code, just typing in the open air here, but it should work.
I see this from a different perspective. 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.

The blog post on sexism wasn't a "controversial opinion." The author wasn't bravely standing up to the mainstream. It was just his crappy opinion that tech needs to continue to try very hard to move past.

Most importantly, his opinion was NOT silenced. Why do people in this arena of conversation seem to consistently misinterpret the meaning of free speech? He espoused his opinion, and then a whole bunch of other people espoused theirs. Nobody was silenced. Quite the opposite, actually.
>I'll bet he would have a different opinion if it was him standing on that little ledge before stepping off.

That doesn't even make sense.

You're just being needlessly and nonsensically indignant over a joke from a guy who is hardly unaccomplished himself [1].

Chill out.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson#Selected_aw...
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I don't know if anyone has suggested this, but if I were you, I'd take your original article off to the nearest Women's Studies department at a University. You're far more likely to get a reasoned response than here or on Twitter.
> "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

Wouldn't you then likewise defend the right of people to criticize the post, including to criticize it harshly, even if you disagree with he criticisms or the way they're phrased?

edit: That said, I can see a case for communities maintaining discourse norms, in order to promote discussion/etc. But to me that's precisely the opposite of a free-speech absolutist view, because discourse norms are limits on what/how/when to say things.
I am a 14 year old programmer. I'm stuck.
Hi,
As the title implies I am 14 years old and an intermediate programmer. I would consider myself "fluent" in python with also experience in objC JavaScript HTML and a handful of other technologies. The problem is that my school does not offer any computer science courses other than Computer Applications 1 (learning how to use word, PowerPoint etc). Anyway, I feel as if I am stuck. Lots of people recommend creating some shareware or something like that. The problem is that while I know all the ins and outs of python(ish) this task seems daunting. The jump from intermediate to advanced, if you will, is huge. I would love to publish a desktop application that syncs with multiple cloud services but again, but the API's are daunting. Could anyone offer any advice or help, thank you!
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if you are apt to stop blogging/tweeting because someone(s) leaves a comment that hurts your feelings, then you shouldn't be sharing your opinion in public, anyways.
People did not criticize the post but the person.
Without doing any math, I would think the main constraint is the sheer size of the balloon that you would need to lift any significant mass. That said there are some people who are proposing things like this with at least some seriousness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_airship
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For those not actually reading the article, this goes back to the multi-billion dollar EU ruling from 2004. Microsoft appealed it for years and eventually reached a settlement in 2009, which reduced their fine to a fraction of the original ruling. However, one of the key requirements of that settlement was the browser ballot, which Microsoft has been violating (as they admitted, but stated the noncompliance was unintentional). Since Microsoft breached the terms of the settlement, they're now potentially on the hook for the original fine plus whatever else applies.
The problem with life, or at least my life, is that I go through it wrong because of things I can not know.

I can't argue with it, I can't know when I'm wrong and when I'm not, and I can't know when I know enough to make any particular decision. (Particularly the last - the number of times I've thought, this is a trivial problem, with a trivial solution, and been proven completely wrong is just huge).

I just assume: "I know as much as I do at this moment", and I make decisions as best as I can. And then I keep learning, and deciding.

This argument ("You are wrong because of things you cannot know") is not one which should make you feel bad about your decisions (or change them), it's one that should encourage you to go elsewhere to learn more about the subject - if you care, and you believe the speaker.
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Question: I think if you disagree with (software) patents, you must also disagree with these anti-monopoly laws. Everyone must be equal and free to compete, even companies with trillions of dollars in bank.

It's 3 AM here so I can't make a good case why I feel that way (so I rather not to, in case I'm misunderstood and people waste their time arguing about what I don't mean), but I want to know what others think about it. Most people hate IE and to a degree, MS. But it shouldn't matter whether we like them or not. They must be allowed to do whatever they want even if it hurts the industry.
Free speech still applies even if it's offending another person.
This was fun to build!
Leaving the flamewar world and focusing more on the work seems like a real healthy thing to me.
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LSA is incredibly powerful but requires some effort to make the results meaningful. Having a good interface in a familiar language is really helpful and lowers the bar to those who already understand the complexities.
You're right - seems it was just Dragon Age 2 that they pulled. My bad! I thought I was only seeing them because I already owned them.
I actively dislike 960, and instead prefer Skeleton[1] which does the same thing as 960 but (in my opinion) better and more cleanly.

The only major difference is syntax, though skeleton's approach is more semantically correct. Before you try it and start complaining though, I have no idea if it will center how you like.

[1] - http://getskeleton.com/
HN is starting to become drama central.
I'm not saying they're not valid because they're based on anecdotal experience, but that anecdotal experience is much weaker than say, serious study. Saying his opinions were based on anecdotal observations isn't why I'm saying they're off, it's why I'm saying perhaps there are deeper resources to be examined. That's all, I'm really not trying to demonize his experience in any way, just hoping for further reflection rather than simply being defensive against the extreme reactions from some
Just from reading the blog posts, it seems like this is a bit of an overreaction to some mild criticism of a mediocre blog post.

Then I looked at Twitter.

If there are multiple people tweeting basically "you're stupid" dozens of times ( https://twitter.com/kendall seems particularly egregious) it's not being in any way productive, it's a bunch of people being assholes and claiming "you're sexist" as a shield against anything they might do.

I don't know if it's something specific to Twitter, or just making people "celebrities" who aren't ready to handle the stupid comments that come with it.
He wrote Redis.
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