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Two key points, IMHO, for a service to be fit for a SMS UI:

* Interaction sparsely needed.

* Usage where Internet access is either way too unreliable, and/or expensive (roaming? maybe offering different international numbers?)

Offtopic: Wait, Trondheim? Heihei, nabo :). Gløshaugen is killing me with exams, but let's have a beer some time.
"No means no" specifically refers to a campaign against rape. It is not some general defense of the right to refuse anything and the sanctity of the word "no". The word "no" in itself isn't some kind of sacred word, and it should not have general power in all contexts that's enforced, as you seem to be proposing.

Apart from the analogy seeming silly and over-dramatic when applied to a... pull request to a software repository... it doesn't even make sense based on how open-source projects I've worked on in the past operate. There is nothing particularly out-of-bounds about making a suggestion a second time, even if it was rejected the first time. Situations and personnel change, and discussions recur. Linus even actively encourages it himself, and many pull requests are accepted after three or four "nos" from Linus. This does not mean that Linus encourages you to initiate sexual advances with people who've asked you to stop, though, because that situation is not at all similar!
Probably. If you want to be a history scholar but the society decides it'd be better off if you dug trenches or picked apples - would that be horrible terrible for you or just fine?
A lot of people across the various forums that discuss this stuff seem to be missing this. It is politics, pure and simple. Joyent and Ben had... an interesting relationship, as far as I'm aware.
Banks can do whatever they want. It's the Bail-Out part that bothers me. But the Bail-In (The Cyprus Template' where the saver's money is confiscated) that's even more scarier. Check out this Bloomberg chart: http://imgur.com/mjkOn1W If I understand correcly my savings are noted as 'an investment in the bank'. Nice...
Cyber self harm: Why do people troll themselves online?
Since it was operated by nickb, why're you asking pg to bring it back?

And, whatever did happen to nickb? Is anyone still in contact with him? Is he doing okay?
There was a lot of activity on Twitter around the commit.

The issue wasn't the pronouns; they were there for a long time without a problem. The issue was that somebody trying to fix them got their pull request closed with "Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that." It was a jerky move, and a lot of people brought it to Joyent's attention since their name was at the top of the page.
I thought Isaac accepted the Pull Request and merged it in? Doesn't he have the authority?
Looks like people have been there before:

https://code.google.com/p/mao/wiki/NOPIN

The real question is whether any of these compiler heroics are actually any good or serve any purpose other than killing time and curiosity. No one knows how "optimized" NOP'ped code will fare on post-i7.

A modern Intel CPU is the most complex proprietary trade secret in the world. That's all Intel wants us to know.
Yeah. And you have prove of your accusation, bordering clearly on calumny, in the form of what exactly?

If nothing else, you should show some decency and delete your comment, that probably was written, while half asleep.
They are paying to Shubham. The original post is updated with the emails regarding that.
http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/
It was a trivial change. It didn't help me nor anyone else understand the code being commented on any better, nor did it change any executable code. That's about as close to the definition of a trivial[0] change that I can think of. Pronoun choice is of little value of importance since this is a open source project, not a college gender studies class. If you think that's not trivial, then take it somewhere where it's not considered trivial and spare everyone else the bikeshedding.

[0] definition of trivial: of little value or importance.
Well write access to the prezi source could make prezi insecure...
That's not true at all. There are a number of prominent members of the Javascript community - John Resig, Erik Arvidsson, Glen Murphy, Paul Irish, Alex Russell, etc. - that are very mature and a pleasure to work with. The problem is that Javascript is a very large language and has spawned a number of subcommunities, and as is common with communities, the ones with the most drama attract the most attention.
What a disaster. This company @joyent totally fucked up the whole situation.
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Which is why this project should have been transferred from Ryan Dahl's github account to Isaac's github account or to a new NodeJS organizational github account.

Personally, I would love to see Joyent reliquish control over the project over their pettyness in this whole fiasco. They have proven themselves to be a poor steward of the project.
Could online peer-to-peer banking replace this whole mess someday?
Define "web development"? Isn't web development usually done in a programming language like other development? Sure, a lot of it these days may take place in JavaScript which seems designed from the ground up to avoid being helped by IDE's.

But in general: apart from the actual whacking out of html and css, "web development" is normally just software development. There is no difference in my need of autocomplete/intellisense/code navigation etc. when I do web things than when I do mobile/desktop/library or any other kind of development.
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The free market is a model in which this would not be possible. A model we aspire to emulate in the real world precisely because it should produce social, not commercial, value.

This activity is either not the free market, or it is the free market failing to work. Why would anyone celebrate this?

edit: I see from your other comment you are not celebrating, but fatalistically claiming that (our attempt at a) free market is fundamentally broken and unfixable. I feel this point would be clearer if you separated the implementation and theory of the free market.
butthurt isn't slang for rape, and you don't get to decide what the community understanding of the meaning is. Which is someone unreasonably upset.

source: my understanding, peer understandings, and every post on urbandictionary
I've read this elsewhere. Joyent appears to be threatened economically by StrongLoop. And there's a suggestion that Bryan Cantrill was annoyed up by Ben Noordhuis in the past.

I think that clears up the question of Bryan's intentions in writing that blog post.

Others have said 'judge Noordhuis by his actions not his intentions'. I don't believe this is a fair way to behave, and this demonstrates why.
Especially when you consider that the New Yorker is the newsletter of the Old Money class. They'll be first up against the wall come any revolution, long before "the bankers".
It wasn't a jerky move at all. Ben simply struck down a 100% bikeshed commit that didn't even follow the commit policy.

Making that trivial bikeshed commit in the first place is a jerk move.
Well then you don't need a drone. If you get texted that the delivery person is about to arrive at your place 20 mins before they get there, you can grab the package directly from the delivery person.
It would be horrible terrible if society ordered me to go dig trenches, yeah. But if society merely stopped paying me 500K a year to be a history scholar, I think that might be acceptable. That is, if being a history scholar were as worthless to society as the things investment bankers allegedly do.
Can you explain why you are ignoring the fact that he was following the procedure (i.e. had no choice, the committer wasn't in the Committers file) and clearly didn't realise that the commit had been accepted by someone else?

So many people seem to be wilfully ignoring the facts and I can't understand why.

Can you explain?
I stopped doing math when I was 18, and did an undergrad in psychology. Now I am doing a second undergrad, this time in math. Coming back in after a decade of absence wasn't difficult at all (but then again undergrad is somewhat easier then grad school), and it was definitely worth it.
Joyent,

Please do the classy thing and have Isaac create a NodeJS organization on Github and move the project to that organization under his stewardship.

With great power came great responsibility and using the Joyent corporate blog to excoriate one of the community's most valuable contributors is the path to the dark side.

http://substack.net/images/coronation.png
The cost of electricity used by miners should never exceed the miners' revenue (assuming most miners only mine when it's profitable to do so), which is currently fixed at approximately 3600 bitcoins per day, or $3.6M at the present cost of $1000 per bitcoin. Factor in the all the expensive ASICs miners have to purchase and it's likely a lot less than that.
I think that's attributing malice where a simpler explanation is available. You would be amazed how often people misunderstand the relationships between organizations. People blame Apple for poorly designed Mac and iPhone apps. People blame Google for problems with websites. People blame independent website operators for Google ranking algorithm changes. People will call up and chew out the receptionist at a newspaper for positions taken by its competitor.

It is entirely possible that Joyent was getting a lot of blowback along the lines of "Do you guys really have a guy trying to keep gender-neutral language out of this project you control?" from people who didn't understand that Ben was not a Joyent employee, and thus Joyent felt pressured to publicly distance itself.

The way Joyent did this came across as pretty tasteless, but the idea that it was purely political seems to assume more than is really necessary to explain what we've seen. It seems more likely to me that they just wanted to make themselves look good by setting up Ben as the enemy and they did it in a rather ham-fisted way.
I routinely use singular they [1] when referring to someone where gender isn't relevant. E.g., "I want to find a new doctor; they should be smarter than the fool I'm using now."

What got me going on this was Douglas Hofstadter's "A Person Paper on the Purity of Language" [2], which I read long ago in college. For me it's been a very gradual change; I don't like language forcing me in directions I don't want. Similarly, I've experimented with E-Prime [3] over the years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

[2] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
To everyone who felt polarized by this issue, I want you to take a second and feel shame.

This was such of little consequence, honestly. This wasn't some massive, elaborately planned, misogynistic plot. This was a matter of few pronouns in a random software project.

Stupid crusades like this do damage. We all need to pick our battles carefully. And not doing as much should collectively be viewed as a bad thing.

If you were mounting up on a crusade about this little issue, let me be clear: you should feel bad.

I love tech's progressive thoughts on individual rights and respect and firm adherence to equality, but sometimes the tech industry loses sight of the forest for the trees, and we should collectively rally against that habit.

Now, we lost an amazing Node contributor.
You should downvote or ignore trolls, especially if they're that obvious.

The fact his comment isn't grey says something about the HN community.
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Yes, every day. It would feel unnatural to use 'he' as a generic pronoun in that context.
There was no value in moving to a new wizard for VC, so they didn't. To their credit, they did accept some restyling work for their wizards.

n.b. I worked on Visual Studio for four years and was the PM behind the managed wizard framework introduced in 2005 (which I've noticed is still around today).
You could always write the proposal yourself, in which case you wouldn't get the money and the research wouldn't get done. Therefore your research must be socially worthless too.
get/set went the way of the dodo when eclipse got refactoring.

Its a single-app code-base. Its not an API anyone consumes. Using get/set boilerplate really is just getting in the way.
You are mixing contexts. I am not speaking to Ben. When this change was rejected, nobody had said a word against Ben, or anything to or about him at all. And at this point I have no reason to be charitable, he hasn't even apologized, and decided to run away instead.

> I am quite surprised to learn that you imply non-native speakers have "severe interpersonal issues" if they don't "know their limits".

I am relaying my own experience. The only two non-native speakers I encountered who were outright dismissive of linguistic tweaks did have severe interpersonal issues, and as I said, they went well beyond issues of language. We are talking about workplace violence-level issues.

If the reality of my experience makes you uncomfortable, so be it. That alters nothing.
It depends on your goals... if you want to get your feet wet with robotics development, a TurtleBot is a good place to start. You can learn the basics of ROS (Robot Operating System), play around with sensing (Kinect) for obstacle avoidance, mapping, and navigation. You can even build some pretty fun applications with a TurtleBot (eg. classic beer delivery).

For an extra couple $hundred, you can buy a decent hobby robot arm (eg. Robotis servos) and doing basic kinematics and manipulation. For the cost of a high-end computer, you can go pretty far these days!

EDIT: Also, I highly recommend reading Probabilistic Robotics. Not strictly necessary for many applications, but required reading if you want to understand most academic robotics topics.
So student loans can't be written off, but savings accounts can? Weird world we live in...
Horizontal web layouts are awesome. A petty how difficult they are to achieve, this one does it well. It is beautiful, both the layout and the contents. The only thing, I wished down scroll would take me left, since thats the intuitive continuation direction.
Did actually any women complain? Cause all I saw was bunch of guys arguing about how awful it is to use gender pronouns. I wouldn't care if all examples were written with "her". Cause that's absolutely unimportant. As I understand there's more serious, real issues with gender equality, like: salary difference, not promoting women, entering barrier, etc. Not damn "he" in doc examples. And as Ben mentioned he actually do some real things: 'I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets young people - especially young women - involved in technology.'
Too bad they all didn't talked it over privately in the very beginning and resolved the issue.
That retaliation post by Bryan Cantrill only hurts Joyent's reputation in my eyes.
I understand you believe it was trivial. Maybe Ben Noordhuis still does too. Others disagree.

Using power to force one's own view because one can is a problematic behavior in open source projects. It needlessly costs contributors. And respect.
Society does not pay any banker 500K. Their clients and employers might. If you want to prevent it because you think it's bad for the society - it is the same idea as sending you to dig trenches because society thinks it's better for you to be this way. If the society can remove the banker from his job - he can remove you from yours.
What are some good sites/blogs to follow to get more news like this?
I will send you a generic example on your email.
Possibly: on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Still no word after all this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507
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New insights into gendered brain wiring, or a perfect case study in neurosexism?
good list, thanks
This looks like an amazing idea. How can I invest in this?
> those guys have done multiple companies, which seems to be an important criteria for doing "consistently well"

That's an interesting question. It depends on the size of the population, I guess. If we acknowledge that a minority of people can start a successful company by chance, why don't we acknowledge that an even smaller minority can do it multiple times, also by chance?
600% sounds impressive, but what is the typical output of wind turbines in absolute terms?
I applied to ycombinator with this idea two years ago, I read an article about how the wind turbines were driving people who live near them crazy with the noise they create. Having a funnel that would capture the wind, then put it through a turbine, plus the ability to channel the wind, seemed like a good idea. However I am not an engineer, never finished college, and am over 35 which may have hurt my application :)
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This article is full of assumptions. Maybe the backer lost a lot of money so he had to cut his fund.

We don't know anything about 'Lee' and his financial situation. So we can't make any assumptions about his motivations.
If the wind gets slowed by turning the turbine, shouldn't the output side funnel of the turbine be larger than the input side funnel to be able to hold more air? (So the additional wind coming in from behind doesn't have to waste its own kinetic energy pushing the front air out of the system)
Bi-elliptic transfer sounds like a plausible explanation but my math gives it a bigger delta-v requirement than a straightforward Hohmann transfer.

Bi-elliptic transfer: (2.713240 + 0.908982 + 0.485255) = 4.107477 km/s
Hohmann transfer: (2.335977 + 1.431307) = 3.7672853 km/s

This alone does not explain why they did so. But this is all assuming that the trajectory is planar. If there was a plane change coupled with the second burn at high apogee, it could explain it.
>It greatly simplifies the overall interface for the average user.

Funny, it was the average user that told me time and time again that they just wanted a normal Windows. Not this childish looking tablet UI. And the first order of business for me was to wipe that Tile Fest and install an OS that average user actually wanted to use.

As long as MS plows ahead with this unification nonsense of systems that are inherently different and are therefore by definition not able to be unified, Windows 8 and any iteration they put out in the future will see the same reception.

If what feels like 90% of the users tell you "once you install start8 and boot to desktop its not that bad", you should know that the Metro crap doesn't fly on desktop. But does MS listen? Hell no. Plow ahead with unification.

Whoever had this idea that systems which are so different from each should be "gifted" with an identical, non optional UI should have been fired a long time ago.

Remove the Tiles shit from the desktop version, apologize and promise to never do that again and then we can talk about me upgrading my desktop OS. But until that happens, it stays on Win7 and nothing of value was lost.
Okay so it starts with normal wind at as little as 2mph (influx) and then with series of venturi tubes and processes the wind is sped up to 45 miles per hour. Then the blast is shoved through a turbine generating electricity and an exit wind at 15 miles per hour (efflux). All right.

So why not take this efflux wind at 15mph back to the top again, or even half way with some loss of course, and achieve a perpetual motion machine [1]?

Is something missing in the introduction video about this concept?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

[Okay got it: The blade area/size of a fan to turn at winds as low as 2mph is quite high (and expensive) as compared to rotor blade size that would work with winds at speed 45 miles per hour. This one looks like a play on lever action of wind on fan blade area/angle w.r.t achievable influx velocity. Not too bad it's a kind of optimization, but for the introduction video that wasn't clear enough.]
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Well I'm not sure it has anything to do with vulnerabilities or not. They do a large feature add on minor updates between 6.x and 6.x+1 which may or may not add new modules etc.

I design stuff to be resilient to host reboots. Then again we have a lot of kit to play with.
Interesting, but I'd like to hear from someone other than the company that's making them. I'm kinda suspicious when I only hear the upsides to something like this.
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Just a note:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/mqSf47HhmyY/m8QpZE9mJ...

These are the guys in control of nodejs. They appear to be both immature and highly profit driven with far more interest in themselves than the platform. If this isn't a red flag for investing time in nodejs, I don't know what is.
Ah yes, the student-loans. Incredible world indeed. Personal debt that enslaves people for live is okay, but writing off big bets by big banks (or entire countries!) is no problem. On a side note: the more a student can borrow, the more the cost of education rises... This is made possible by governement as well as banks by the way. I feel Iceland did it right: let the banks go bust and even write off personal debt of people's morgage.
They are actually paying to Shubham.
The original post by Shubham was updated: http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/
Let them know. They already have a ticket [1] and more and more keep voting for a Go IDE or at least a supported plugin. Unfortunately the existing Go plugin broke during the 13 EAP, and last time I checked it still hasn't been updated.

[1] http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5938
Thus, whole bitcoin user base will be thrown into a jail if the Sheep Marketplace owner is smart enough to spend significant time parsing his coins around.

Nawww, that is unrealistic, even for FBI.
This is the reason why it's not just a few bad apples:

"Moral hazard is insidious. It lurks in people's minds and stealthily causes them to make ever riskier, and less principled, decisions. It also fosters Gresham's Dynamics. A Gresham's Dynamic describes an environment in which unethical behavior crowds out ethical behavior. For example, analysts in ratings agencies prior to the crisis had to decide whether they would inflate their ratings to please their customers. Those agencies were, and are, paid for their ratings by the financial institutions that are seeking to have their products rated as highly as possible. The result was that analysts that gave inflated AAA ratings were promoted. Analysts that refused to inflate, were fired. Gresham's Dynamics were omnipresent in the institutions that brought our economy crashing down.

Here is what we now face:

- The structural problems and Gresham's Dynamics in our political economy have been preserved and reinforced.

- The same people that drove us to the brink are still, for the most part, our decision makers.

- We have infused enormous moral hazard into all levels of our economy.

- The majority of politicians and regulators - regardless of party affiliation - are complicit.

http://www.capitalismwithoutfailure.com/2011/02/lawyers-view...
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