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A sad day. Big ups to Michael, JP, and the rest of the team. Snapjoy, RIP
Dear op: Why wasn't this a poll? I want to vote yes.
First, those names were put out by a foolish mistake by a Guardian journalist by releasing the encryption key. Second, as far as I know, no one can point to a single person who was harmed or was even put in danger. And there were risk/damage assessments performed by the government so you would expect the fact that someone, without being specific, had been put in danger to be made public.
Sure they do. But are they expecting China to comply with them?
I also have no time for him as a personality - however you can't tell me that you disregard his arguments on that basis? I know I certainly don't.
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Exactly. Another angle: http://www.montgomerynews.com/content/articles/2011/06/23/mo...
This article doesn't mention the best interview method of them all: the presentation interview. Have the interviewee prepare a 15 minute presentation of a technical topic of the interviewee's choice. At the end of that presentation the team should have a general idea of the person's thinking speed/experience/communications skills. Basically all you'd ever need to know about the person.

In my version of a perfect world, each company would have a "speaking hour" designated once per week. Each speaking hour would feature two or three speakers, each with 15 minutes to speak about something interesting they've worked on. The idea being if you wanted to work for a company, you'd apply to speak at their next "speaking hour". If you show up and give your talk and the audience approves your talk, then its understood you're hired.
An appeal process exists. It's pretty much e-mailing info@ycombinator.com and saying something like "Hey, have I been banned? Please undo!" (if you feel you were unfairly banned), or "Hey, I realize I said something that I shouldn't have said. I'm sorry -- please consider unbanning?"

In my experiences the people in charge of making these decisions are fairly prudent.
or, users can chose to ignore other users as they see fit, and those users will appear dead to them (in other words, a per-account killfile.) They can also choose to "cure undead" on hellbanned users and have them appear live and they can reply to them. This has the benefit of appearing to preserve the status quo for those who think hellbanning is awesome.
Performance is pretty good with both on IE10. I never thought I'd see the day...
People who upvote polls tend to forget to upvote the story as well.
And just banning foreigners is free. The ROI is infinite on free things that work. But ROI is not the only consideration.
I agree with your sentiment. Saying nobody reads their comments is incorrect, however.
A simple solution is to make sure there is some way of contacting you in your profile. If I come across an account that is making comments in good faith but has been hellbanned, then I look to their profile. If I can find a way to contact them, I do. Usually they e-mail `info@ycombinator.com` and get their account reinstated. It seems like other folks here participate in a similar Friendly Neighbor policy.
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There are two things wrong with this. First, you are assuming that a nonzero fraction of people will sign up for every open-membership community available to them, frequent, and vote in each such community. Realistically most people probably can't do this for more than ten communities. Second, even if there is eventually convergence it may not occur quickly. For example, the universe will eventually reach a state of maximum entropy but it isn't something that any of us need to worry about today.
This has been brought up a bunch of times before. An Upvote for dead comments should make them visible. I was once shadow banned on an older account. I don't remember what I said, but it wasn't that bad. I had made like 10 or so effort-posts until I realize someone had monkeyed with my account.

edit: Also, if you get so many upvotes on your comments, say 20, you are automatically un-shadow-banned.
It's important for people to include an email in their 'about' box on their profile, so that other HN users can get in contact.

HN seems to be pretty good about letting people know that they're banned, either by email or in threads. It's probably a good idea to check their comment history before letting them know.

jere's comment is disturbing. I tend to stay away from some hotbutton topics now, and anything involving certain companies involves weird voting (both up and down). That's a great shame on a site like HN.
I believe there is an NPR Marketplace podcast about the difficulties of building a school in Haiti, I can't imagine how much harder it would be if you needed constant power.

Edit: found it http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/29/135750053/the-tues...

Maybe Dominican Republic would be a better option
This is all about the public. If any capable agency does not know about 90% of the stuff he revealed so far they are incapable of doing their job.

All he does is to show us again and again that we are getting fooled all day long.

He prepared this chess game for many years and he knows how they work. As i said before he is not stupid and certainly has a lot of inside knowledge that he is using against them.
How did you know you were "ghost banned"? Do you get an email or something?
I still can't really get used to that blurry glassy background look over the icons. Maybe it's because I haven't used it yet.

More and more though, I feel like I'm going to miss skeuomorphism.

We've seen all those iOS 7 screenshots with a white iPhone. Anybody knows how that's going to look on a black iPhone?

Is there an option to invert the UI theme from white to black? I hope so.
I am not sure what you mean.. I don't think I even ever read a "tell HN". I'd probably feel weird to step on the soapbox that way.. but feel free to elaborate (or do whatever you want with any of my posts, for that matter :)
Oh sorry, I forgot you're keeping that on the DL.
Every Saturday and every Sunday.
JavaScript and CSS stink in a lot of ways. CSS is pretty messy if you want to do something slightly weird or complicated, which is a large part of why we have frameworks for grids instead of just being able to write one. It seems you have to do this weird "margin: 0 auto" trick to center things sometimes. Last I heard, the only way to get something vertically centered is to make it a table cell and use "vertical-align: center" or something like that. A lot of the interesting CSS properties are inconsistently supported and/or have vendor prefixes; can you use border-radius yet and expect it to work in the big three browsers? If you want a page that fits in the window with a fixed footer, you have to use JS hacks to make it work (actually I don't think I ever got it right). Just the other day a friend of mine had to do some weird hack where he detected the width of the window and set CSS accordingly to make things work right on mobile devices. Honestly, browser inconsistency is half the problem.

As for JS itself, I'll just defer to Douglas Crockford and the infamous wat talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat .

If you want more, the HTML and SVG DOMs are not properly integrated. It turns out to be nearly impossible to have a functioning textarea inside SVG, or indeed any form of wrapped text. God knows I tried with Chrome and Firefox, and apparently it just gets worse with IE. I'm sure I'll encounter more irritants as I go on, or maybe someone else can chime in with something specific they encountered this week. Probably the reason you don't hear more specifics is that most of the irritations fade into the background as you work around them, leaving only a vague dissatisfaction.

Now granted, this is all much better than nothing. I know the web has enabled all kinds of cool things, which is the only reason anyone bothers to develop it. But I think it's absurd to call front-end dev a "solved problem", at least in any sense meant to silence pointing out potential improvements.
It amazes me at work how many people just violate UUOC/UUOG

ie..

cat file | grep bar | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq

which can simply be

awk '/bar/ { print $1 | "sort -u"}' file
In other words, there's press freedom in Ecuador, as long as the press doesn't threaten the government of Ecuador.
Oh crimey, I've been had!
So you are sure Obama was lying through his teeth and not just ignorant? I mean, Obama must know every detail of Eric Holder's job right?

Or are you just using "lying" to make a strong political statement, and you really see no difference?
Every "non-US person", which is most people, disagree that their right to privacy is second tier. This domestic vs non-domestic targeting of civilians is a strange way to think about one's place in the world. The common people of any country are not parties to any of this.

Also, many of the grifters playing in the cyber industrial complex use "china hacking" as their biggest propaganda tool to further line their pockets and erode our freedoms. It's important that they not be able to use this while also doing exactly the same thing to the rest of the world.
He was walking around the UK in broad daylight exactly up until it looked like he'd be sent to Sweden to face rape charges.
I have been looking for something like this. Are there any known alternatives?
Vehicle fires are some of the most nerve-wracking fires you'll ever respond to...

Always approach from a corner, sweep the hose stream under the vehicle to push out any burning fluids, then flood the interior with as much water as you have.

There are so many things in a car that will try to hurt you... Those little hydraulic cylinders that prop up your rear hatch? When those heat up enough to cook off, they'll drive that rod through your leg... The compressed gas cylinders that give the bumpers their 'bumpiness' will kick the bumper out hard enough to break a knee... Hopefully the fire hasn't gotten hot enough to ignite the magnesium that is in a lot of modern vehicles... And here's hoping electric car manufacturers really know their stuff... A lithium fire doesn't sound like fun at all.
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I don't know what the exact answer is, but I agree with the sentiment. There is already a showdead for a reason, and I assume it is the same sentiment.
I also dont see that many dead posts that I find objectionable or worth removing their comment because it contains someones interpretation of a little too much snark.
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“After two years of building Snapjoy, the time has come for us to shut down the service.”

That is a really weird statement. Shutting down without offering any alternatives is not a normal thing to do for a software company. No word of why they’re shutting down, just ’the time has come’. No apology. Nada.

I had to read the comments in this thread to find out they were acquired by Dropbox.
Is he? For no particular reason, I would be more confident that Sowden is, but I'm not 100% certain about Assange.
The one thing I didn't like about the demo is they showed it compared to refilling a car, but refilling a car adds more miles to your range than swapping out one of those batteries.
They are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
assuredly, I think it wouldn't be a dumb move for him to wind up in say, northwest idaho, or somewhere seriously remote.
This wasn't clear?:

"A few people messaged me on other channels to let me know."
No they weren't. Obama campaigned on increased domestic spying. His biggest promises were to expand NSA surveillance and increase the powers granted in the USA PATRIOT Act. He was very clear about this as far back as 2006, when he voted to give Bush's NSA additional authority and spying power.

http://votesmart.org/bill/3298/8450/9490/patriot-act-reautho...
Having borne witness to the consequences of strange and ill-conceived laws in the US concerning sexual misconduct on completely normal people and some basic reading on Swedish laws, I have no trouble believing that the charges against Assange are trumped up. They could indict the proverbial ham sandwich on rape charges in Sweden if they really wanted to. And have the whole public up in arms over dangerous lunchbox fare. Sex is one of those things that humans will consistently act irrationally over.
I'd like to see that in OS X Mavericks, since smooth scrolling is one of its main features.
Like where Ruby Ridge happened?
Where I live the temperature of the water is about the same as the temperature of the air, which typically varies between -10° and 40° in human-inhabited zones. But the main point here is really that what matters is how you wash the bottles: if you wash them in running hot water, which I think is what you're talking about when you say "20 gallons per sinkful", then you get megajoule-scale numbers. If you wash multiple sinkfuls of dishes with a sinkful of dishwater, you get a number lower by a factor of 20, like I did. And if you wash your bottles in cold water, you get even lower numbers.

In my previous comment I was tempted to suggest washing in salt water, but ① very few people do that, and ② it's a pain, because the salt makes the soap stop working.

Desalination turns out to be a reasonable cost, but still one that tips the balance in favor of recycling rather than reuse. Typical desalination plant costs are half for energy and half other things (like plant construction), and total about US$0.001 per liter. If we assume that all, rather than half, of that cost pays for energy, and at the typical wholesale price of US$40 / megawatt-hour, it works out to 95kJ/liter. So the answer still depends on factors like how cold your water is before it goes into the hot water heater, how much water you use per bottle, and stuff like that.

I don't agree about your factory construction line item; if you reduce the demand for glass bottles by reusing old ones instead of melting them down, you need fewer bottle factories.
If the Chinese had a source in Snowden's position, it does not seem credible that they would voluntarily burn him just to cause some temporary domestic embarassment for the US President.
How did those people know?
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Especially when I follow that by saying I read the comments!

(But for the most part, no one reads the comments of the dead.)
In that case, which was decried by Ecudorean media as a crackdown on press freedom, the journalist wrote Correa "...ordered fire at will and without warning against a hospital full of civilians and innocent people..." and "committed crimes against humanity". Correa later pardoned the defendants. This was in relation to an attempted coup where the police force trapped Correa in a hospital.

Also important to note owners of the media in Ecuador are opposed to Correa since he does not support their interests.

As Chomsky said about this incident: Can you imagine if a coup against the President, supported by the press and executed by the police occurred in the United States? They would be put against a wall and shot.

So while there may be problems with press freedom in Ecuador they should be put in the proper context and investigated more carefully than a "freedom of the press index" can convey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Correa#Lawsuit_against_t...
Do you have a link to the comments of the old account?
3. Get a job at another company that doesn't hire via silly hazing rituals. Preferably one that isn't past its heyday like the two you mentioned.
Anyone else feel like a month of warning before permanently deleting your data is cutting it a bit close?
What project details would you like to see for each item on the list?

It's tough because :
1. There is a lack in uniformity: you have CSS solutions, jQuery extensions, node.js packages, articles, books, videos and so on.
2. Every bit of information you include makes the list bloated. I think it's enough to have the category, a link, and maybe a short description. If I need a template engine for a project, I will click on every link and look through them anyway.

Please make a suggestion how you would like this list to look.
This was a while ago, but I think I had read about ghost banning on HN before it happened. I'm assuming the same for the people who messaged me.
I was partly shadow-banned myself, on this account -- my comments would show up, but not my submissions. I only figured it out months after it happened (I just assumed the things I was submitting weren't catching peoples' interest for some reason), which was frustrating. At the time the account had more than 4,000 karma, which I would have thought would have been a decent indicator that I wasn't a troll.

I eventually got the ban lifted, but only after writing HN and asking them to do it. I never got any notice that I'd been banned, or really any rational explanation about what I'd done to cause the ban, either by email or in a thread, from HN admins or anyone else. My profile has both an email address and a link to an "About Me" page with my contact information on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., so it's not like I'm hard to find.

Even though the ban eventually got lifted, it really knocked my opinion of this community down a few notches. Passive-aggressive measures like hell-banning/shadow-banning/etc. should be last resorts used for silencing hard-core trolls. If they're used too widely, they break down the trust a community needs to have in its mods to function properly.
Its a balance of clarity, vs efficiency. Also, I chose uniq over sort -u, for the -c option.

That being said, point well made.
Aside from someone else clueing you in, wouldn’t you notice after a while that you don’t get any upvotes anymore? (or downvotes for that matter)
This was back around... 2003 I think? It would have been back in version 5 or 6 of the editor.
How much will this cost? Really.

Reuters reckons it'll be the same as filling a petrol car about $60 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-tesla-swap-idUS...

Edit:$60 apparently.
Even the cheapest UAV-explosive is more expensive than the explosive without the UAV. A UAV that's "cheaper than a handgun" [0] (as in the grandparent post) is, at present, going to have a payload of perhaps a couple of ounces. How many feet of lethal radius can you get from a couple ounces of payload? How "very very close" can you actually manually fly a UAV with a small bomb attached?

Being able to kill someone with a disposable weapon, and not be spotted by onlookers or security tapes, is still potentially a security nightmare. I'm just not convinced that "cheaper than a handgun" is the present or near-future reality for such a weapon.

[0] cheap handguns are under $250, and rifles can be under $200. Prices taken from http://www.impactguns.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nluqo

I may not have remembered everything perfectly, but there you go.
I upvote dead comments that I find value in. If that currently has no impact, I think that it should. What better way to resurrect the dead than by community upvotes?
The Tesla takes ninety seconds to get a battery which will last 235 miles. (http://www.teslamotors.com/models/facts)

The Audi A4 takes three minutes to get a tank of gas which will last 448 miles. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Audi-A4-2013/specs/mpg/)
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1150/
I got a close-up tour of Luke AFB from the base commanding general. Recruited me. I studied the side windwinder at Goodyear aerospace in the explorer scouts. I saw the chicken gun fired at canopies. I saw the image processing for the SR71. Explorer scout in high school.

I got a scholarship to ASU from Unidynamics. My Dad worked there. They make lasers that ignite explosives to cut cables on our nuke missiles.

I studied rocket science.

I am a wolverine.

Fuck off pigs.

Fucken india niggers.
A const pointer could be NULL, among many other differences.
I'm sort of curious as to why it's so big ... given its very modest requirements.

Is it just the desire to avoid expensive proprietary highly-integrated components?

[I work for a cellphone company, and my boss used to carry around a complete cellphone CPU+RAM+Flash+driver-chips board around in his wallet... it was about the size of a postage stamp (this is about 12 years ago, for "medium power" cellphones). Battery / display / keyboard / I/O ports / antenna etc, took up the rest of the interior of a real cellphone, but it seems that this watch is explicitly designed to be very low-power, etc, and avoids many of the other requirements in a cellphone...]
How will this help with energy storage? I get the generation and gun parts.
Liberated?
Scrolling repaints the content (expensive)

Changing a translate3d does not repaint the content, it simply translates a GPU texture (damn near free)

Sadly desktop browsers haven't caught up to their mobile equivalents yet and still have brain dead scrolling.
I suggest it should take multiple upvotes before any sort of automated system kicks in. Maybe 4-5 upvotes should make a previously dead comment visible.

I also suggest that un-shadow-banning should not be automated. Enough upvotes over time could trigger a "review this account" e-mail, but it should still be up to a moderator to look over the account and give the final say.
Personally I don't think he is in Hong Kong. Decent idea to just claim you are and be somewhere else.
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>That's Oceans Eleven level stuff. I can just imagine the guards patrolling around empty rooms that they think are full of gold. I'm interested to see the truth level of this statement, but that's a bit too outlandish for now.

well, put that way, yeah, I agree. but eh, from what I understand, the standard assaying process is not thorough enough to catch, say, a chunk of tungsten in the gold. So it would kinda surprise me if most of the gold sold at the corner gold and silver shop had the advertised gold content. The government having at least some fake gold? would also be unsurprising. The government intentionally storing fake gold? okay, now we're starting to get into crazy town, but... not impossible crazy.

I mean, I'm not saying the gold in fort knox is fake... but I don't think it's an impossible idea.
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The two common definitions of "expect" mean confusion like this is unfortunately common.

There is "To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come;" and "To consider obligatory or required."

I "expect" the Obama administration to value the spirit of the constitution (using the second sense of the word), but I do not "expect" it (using the first). Many people also expected or continue to expect it in the first sense.
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You can set "showdead" to "yes" in your profile. (This option might only be available beyond some karma threshold.)
In your profile you can set an option to "show dead" - this shows hellbanned users.
The syntax is different, but in terms of what you can do, the only difference I know is that references can be reassigned.

Both give you the guarantee that it's not pointing at the NULL address. In the case of const pointers, that's because you can't reassign it, and you'd never deliberately assign a const pointer to NULL. In the case of references, it's because there's actually no such thing as a null reference in C++.

That's not the case in Java and C#, which allow "null" to be a right-hand value for all types.
I wasn't trying to bag on HTTP 1.0. I was just noting that HTTP 2.0 (fka. SPDY) includes support for sending related assets along with the requested resource.
This is usually what happens in INTJ dominated environments. Trigger happy and sometimes nonsensical.