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And who could blame them. As an outsider who didn't grow up in the U.S. but has spent the past year living here, people are generally amiable and friendly but will take advantage of you for a mile if you give an inch. Rabid consumerism, shows of status, workaholism and an overwhelming feeling of fuck you got mine seems to pervade the collective psyche because you can't really lean on others (save for a few nonconformists).
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Presumably the Lua, c and Haskell programs would also be 6× faster if you use the memoised algorithm, so that's a pretty meaningless comparison.
Would you be willing to put your company on the line in the event of such a situation? I mentioned potentially - it is possible almost none of those possibilities happened. But if you were in the position to make risk assessments for your company, would you risk this story being picked up by national media?

Similarly, would you put your company's culture on the line?
That last statement (“Nobody pulled out…”) does not coincide with either my personal experience or the experience presented in some older television comedies where the husband is reading the newspaper as the wife is talking to him about something important and his response is “uh-huh” until the point she says something ridiculous or that he would never otherwise agree to. I'm pretty sure that “Married…with children” used this gag more than once.
Why you can only click on the bullet to select something on the example form? They seem pretty bad... at forms.
Const-ness is really different. It's a concept I really miss from other languages as it _adds_ more semantic information to the code. It does not obscure, it clarifies. It's a way to give orders instead of giving recommendations.
Probably makes it worse. If you tell people the currency doesn't leave a paper trail then they'll worry about people scamming them or screwing them over in some way, shape, or form.
The one where he says it's great if people's productivity is being harmed because it makes it easier for him to outcompete them?
I believe TyphonBlue's Theory of Apexuality[0] could also explain a lot of this:

> The third term is ‘Apexual’. This is a portmanteau of ‘Apex’ and ‘sexual’ and refers to a male-bodied individual who derives its primary identity from its position within a status hierarchy rather then a positive relationship with other male-bodied individuals.

[...]

> In light of that can you actually trust apexuals to have the best interests of the male-bodied at heart even if they are male bodied themselves?

[0]: http://www.genderratic.com/p/1140/patriarchy-1-0-and-the-ape...
> This insistence on political correctness

It isn't "political correctness" - the phrase implies that the language has no real effect and changing it is merely for show, or as a political statement.

Using male pronouns as gender neutral has a measurable effect on comprehension that has studied and reproduced repeatedly. Using "he" pronouns as generics does in fact lead both men and women to exclude women in their comprehension of the sentence a statistically significant fraction of the time. See for example http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27784423?uid=2&uid=4&s....

Revising language not a "thought barrier", it's an actual real benefit.

Your entire premise is false.
As opposed to what? Deliberately staggering progress in an effort to maintain a society of contrived busywork so people can slave away for pennies? You might as well just give away the pennies rather than deliberately embrace inefficiency in an effort to keep these jobs in existence.
That point raises, I believe, the question of what exactly is motivating these digital currencies' adoption, assuming that the strongest economic power has a growing rate of social distrust.
Public Open Source Developer Blacklist, major version 4, minor version 2, revision 6:

Entry #846: Guy McGee. Offense: Rejecting a commit that consisted of nothing but changing two gendered pronouns. Notes: Vehement sexist, may be dangerous. Projects: Works on GenericWebStartup.

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Yeah, I can see how this could quickly devolve. Even if the initial intentions are benevolent, if someone truly committed something as serious as sexual assault, they would be assigned into an already existing sex offenders' registry. On the other hand, "dismissiveness towards someone in a marginalized group" is something very vague and can be abused easily by people harboring personal vendettas.

The end result? People self-censoring on an unprecedented level.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

This sort of thing always turns out well.
I agree. The via in pads was done more as an experiment to see what would happen - I'd never tried it before. They lower the inductance on the ground path, but it's not a huge deal. They'll be relocated in a future iteration. The QFNs have more vias than they need.
"...hostility isn't about intent".

Wrong, it is about intent. By alexgaynor's logic, all traffic accidents are assaults.
No paper trail? But that's what the Bitcoin mechanism is -- a way of publicly recording all transactions!
I think #2 happened because Alex (the creator of the PR) was being hostile in his comments. I doubt Ben would have closed this PR if Alex would have approached the subject with more poise and kindness.

Not everyone is familiar with the battle of gender inequality in tech and the fact that some people find gendered pronouns exclusionary.

This was a perfect time to help the cause and educate developers, but instead Alex chose to be hostile because they didn't understand.

This is the comment I believe hurt everything the PR was trying to do: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29537...

We need to remember that the Internet is a global community and not everyone we deal with has english as a first language, Ben being from The Netherlands most likely speaks dutch first which has its own gender language issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Dutch_grammar
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You're right, my apologies to mrbill.

Apparently just about everyone on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit has OCD. Having seen a close cousin of mine suffer horribly from OCD (to the point of being house-bound), it's terribly frustrating to see people throw OCD around like its a fashionable accessory.
Maybe "a FAQ" is sexist, and "an FAQ" is neutral?
There has been over a decade of propaganda telling people not to trust each other... all post-9/11 messaging intended to create insecurity in the population.
I'm sorry, I don't see how anyone should be defending a lawyer's fees at that price. I look at law the way I look at open source software, (the law should be accessible to everyone, for free, if they know how to interpret it). You can hire experts in law, as you hire experts in open source software (lawyers/programmers). Now imagine, for example, two startups competing with on the same technology (say Rails (whatever)) in the same market (whatever). Now imagine one of the two startups wins a dominant market position and the other has to fold. You don't imagine the developers of the winning startup demanding some arbitrary fee from the company they beat. It would seem absurd. Yet here are people defending thousands of dollars an hour, for a human being to interpret the law, which is the same for everyone and should be accessible to anyone (even though we all know navigating the legal system is probably worse than navigating through WordPress source code). I don't see how a lawyer on the opposing team should be able to charge me an arbitrary amount.
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but the dots they had came from somewhere, right? And those were collected by some release of privacy.

The inverted argument is that, if a known criminal gets sent a letter through the mail, should the government be allowed to open it? Or is privacy that absolute?

The fact that both extremes (this and the postcard argument) seem a bit silly show that there's some sacrifice in privacy to be made.
That isn't really an accurate description of the issues: it's not the case that it was "working" and then "broken" by GCC maintainers. It's always been unsupported and not worked in specific situations, but for 99% of code it appeared to GCC users that it was supported. The signed integer overflow behaviour was never guaranteed by old versions of GCC, and code exploiting it would not always be compiled with the "expected" behaviour. It's just as the GCC optimizer has improved there are more circumstances when it does optimisations that hinge on the assumption.

Compiler users generally want something that "just works" and doesn't do anything unexpected, but in the case of a low-level language like C, doing away with undefined behavior essentially would mean pessimistically avoiding many optimisations on the 99%+ of straightforward, reasonable code out there in favor of not doing anything surprising on the remaining fraction of dubious code that depends on certain things happening in scenarios where behavior is undefined according to the C standard. There are languages that make that choice, but C isn't one of them.
Unfortunately, the theory of tax/cost incidence shows what can go wrong with this: since it results in above-market effective wages, that simply intensifies the competition for those positions, probably to the point that workers will offer to do them for less than the current wage Amazon is paying, since they know they'll still make the same from such donations.

Here's a discussion that covered the question in the context of allowing people to tip McDonald's cashiers directly, but the same analysis applies:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/08/what_if_tipping_...

"Who benefits" is determined by the shape of the supply/demand curves, not who is being handed the dollars.
>I think however larger rack/frame mounted DC/DC converters would likely be even more efficient than per chassis DC/DC converters, but would require almost totally custom hardware.

Nope, you can buy off the shelf ATX PSUs that accept 48v DC as input, though it's kinda hard to find. It's easier to find, usually, on the higher-end.

For switching gear, though? it's a standard option, as 48v DC is standard for telcos.

In fact, most of the higher-end datacenters will sell you 48v DC if you ask for it. It's sort of like having an always-online UPS, as they can just leave the battery-banks in-line; no switching from mains power to UPS required. (and that switch is... quite often what fails when a data center loses power.) Whenever I take folks through my setup at coresite santa clara, they are always drawn to the 48vdc battery bank on the other side of the room. "Hey guys, that's not mine." "No, don't touch that giant copper bus bar."

(That's the thing about low voltage; you need serious amounts of copper if you want to move very many watts at all.)

It used to be a bigger deal than it is now, as the PSU in your server is dramatically better now than it was even just ten years ago.

But yeah, from what I can tell? (and I spend what, 10x rent on data-center power? I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I certainly have an incentive to be right.) The negotiation differences between the cost per watt using different voltages is far greater than the efficiency differences of different voltages. Sales people ruin everything.

At many places, 208v cost you twice as much per amp as 120v, so you are better off just buying twice as many 120v amps. (I mean, 208v is more efficient for you and for the datacenter, but it's not 10% more efficient, and you get more than 10% more watts that way.)

I was at one place where an amp of 208v was only about 30% more expensive than an amp of 120v. Too bad that free ride ended.

The problem is that most salespeople don't really understand any of this... they understand how to sell. And a 10% difference in power cost, well, that's less than the referral bonus they give if you have an agreement to feed them leads. (this is why you see so many small companies claiming to have datacenters across the country. They just have referral programs, and they get upwards of 10% of what the customer ends up paying the real data center, essentially in exchange for some slimy seo.)

So really, the negotiation game matters a whole lot more than what is actually the most efficient, until you get to the point where you can build your own data-center.
I know you are joking, but I find the title consistent with the overall tone of the post. I mean, the writer knows that everyone writes "a FAQ", but he doesn't care, he'll do it the way it should be, the right way, the correct view. in other words, in his way.

In both cases I find an attempt to create an issue where I see none, but then again, that doesn't mean that my view is right either.
Lots of original and interesting articles centralized here.

That's explained mainly by the fact they are paying $50 for each article.
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Someone probably wants to acquire Snapchat and does not feel like paying 3B for it. Or Facebook is butthurt.

/takes-off 3D printed tin foil hat
>Reminds me of music created by some aleatoric process (Cage's I Ching stuff, perhaps). Interesting to think about...

It probably wouldn't come with any surprise that I favor Harry Partch over Cage as far as modern American iconoclast composers go.. :)

>It feels, though, that the practitioners are prone to getting caught up in the pseudo-novelty (novel, at least, to them) of how it is done at the expense of creating music that presents some engaging development arc.

Indeed, this is the crux of the matter / critique as that was very apparent from the get go of the live coding (LC) movement. I think LC is a tool which can be useful at times for exploring different sounds, but is not well suited as a performance mechanism. There is no or little apparent composition process involved in what I have seen over 10 years of LC. The mechanism in itself does not make lasting art, but if used at bare minimum via the process of selection as part of a larger compositional process it is valid. I'm sure somewhere in the LC community this is happening, but it certainly isn't how the status quo operates or how LC is presented at large.

In regard to TOPLAP et al; if you need to lead a "movement" with a manifesto to justify the musical output you're doing it wrong... Or in other words this movement like many before with leanings toward the avant-garde does not address that at the end of the day it's a handful of folks performing for other LC aficionados and no one else. One shouldn't need to buy into the manifesto to appreciate LC as art.

In many ways by elevating LC to "movement status" it can capture and beguile a generation of computer musicians including HN readers who are new to computer music concepts & generative / algorithmic music. It's not the only game in town so to speak though I do have general respect for the immediatism aspect of LC as far as it aligns with the mechanism and performance in regard to just getting out there and "doing it".

My experience and lifes work on the coding / performance side could be considered an antithesis to the LC movement; it's been a solo journey for me so far. My work has not been released yet though I may have been one of the first to build an alternative client / framework for SuperCollider ('02). It all started there and work continues today though it's branched beyond solely music / audio control, but I do hope to get back to music / performance applications and heck performing once the larger effort is released (and shock / gasp perhaps I'll make income to support the art side of things and future music-tech efforts).
It's great but it looks to me that those libraries are not intended for people to work in, except for the Utrecht library in Holland.
Does anyone know what the author meant by this?

"Software that assigned identities to enrollees and ensured that they saw only their own personal data, known internally as the EIdM, was being quickly overwhelmed. Customers could not log in to create accounts."

"Experts disagree on what went wrong. But several said that errors in the software code written to stitch the Oracle product into the online system and improperly configured hardware trapped users in endless technological loops. It would take eight days to resolve just that one bottleneck."
No BGAs, I think you might be seeing the crazy thermal via arrays under the chips (I went a little overboard, the next revision will likely have a couple less vias on each chip). The hashing ICs are QFN.

This would be a really easy board to manufacture. Low unique part count. I just need to move the decoupling cap vias out of pad and it'll be ready.
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wrong, they use mate, which is a sort of fork of gnome 2. debian is already committed to gnome 3... which has all the usability issues "solved"if you want to download tons of JavaScript to run locally... but all the system tools are still a train wreck. eg, just added my printer, can't even see the protocol I'm using via the gui, and since my net printer has a few, I only see it's model listed several times and have to guess, check elsewhere, repeat...
I've been on DO for a few weeks. It was a bit like a learning curve at first, but I really like the service. However, I passed on the promo because there has to be a day where I actually pay for their service.
I think the point here is more that perceived hostility is not about intent. Perception is reality when you are not there in the user experience to give more information about your intent.

Another good argument here is that gendered language is intended to be hostile (as much as a cultural narrative can have intent) and you might just not realize it.
you don't need Jolla for that, you can just build your OS on to of Android. There are plenty of Android based OSes out there that do not license Google's apps. If you don't license Google's services then you can do whatever you want, and if you decide to stay compatible then developers can offer their existing apps on your software with little effort.
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lol. totes like that, bro.
Americans also live in a much more diverse and accepting society than they did 40 years ago. Let's give it some time, hmmm?

Articles like this make me peevish. I really dislike articles that glorify the 1950s-1990s, in anyway, without acknowledging what a strange time it was. Post-war America deserves far more criticism than it ever receives; I often think this is because boomers have a hard time criticizing the era they grew up in.

Citing a similar poll from the 1970s is a brief glimmer into a period that wasn't actually that long ago. Did people from the 1970s actually trust each other more, or did they just say that they did? What about the 1920s? The 1870s? The 1840s? Did Americans trust each other more then?

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You didn't read before commenting, did you? The point wasn't the choice in the first place or a grammatical debate but rejecting the idea that there was a question and then, after more discussion, reverting a two-word change in a fit of pique.

I note that none of the anti-PC reactionaries are giving much attention to the part about throwing a for and reverting another developer's commit, which is telling.
The difference of universities in Germany is far less than the difference of US universities (thus terms like "elite universities" are hardly used in Germany despite tries of the German Government to give some universities additional funding to become something officially called "elite universities").

There are really hardly any remedial math courses in German universities since vocational education is rather common in Germany if you don't want to make a general qualification for university entrance (Abitur). Additionally in Germany (that's very German) there are universities of applied science (Fachhochschulen) which give a very applied course of studies. There are even some more more exotic ways of getting higher education (vocational academy/university of cooperative education (Berufsakademie)). Thus in Germany you go to university since you want this kind of education, not because there are hardly any alternatives. Living and having studies in Germany I never heard of something like remedial math courses - they say if you aren't able to self-teach such material you should rather not go to a university or at least be a student in a different subject.
What a horrible piece of "journalism." People need to get over the privilege bashing that seems to be so "in vogue" these days. This dude got into Stanford (despite what people here think, that requires more than just money), created an app sharing 400M+ photos per day after less than two years, and has big enough balls to turn down $3B from Mark Zuckerberg. Whether you agree with how he's handled the situation or not, you have to give him some respect. This article is a piece of trash. I hope Spiegel wipes his ass with it.
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That Viral "Poverty Thoughts" Essay Is Totally Ridiculous
Since when does spending too much time on your phone mean you're "in trouble?" Last I checked that's an entirely personal choice. You're talking about my statement like I'm celebrating homelessness or something equally despicable.
The problem I have is calling someone a "misogynist asshole" on the basis of just one thing. It doesn't look like there's been any dialogue with this person, the blog post doesn't touch on past behaviour. What if the person in question was reverting to reasons other than the content? What if English isn't his first language and he didn't fully understand the implications? From here it just looks like "he's a witch burn him".

There is no question that people with negative attitudes can have a deeply destructive effect on a team and an industry in general, or that you and others have suffered because of them. But this seems to have kicked off on a real hair trigger.

How would you react to someone that writes a blog post at a moment's notice calling someone an "asshole" and saying "he should be fired", whatever the issue is?
"Why I Make Bad Decisions" -- or something like that -- was popular here at HN recently. This debunks it.
It's all just about wanting power. Such a list would be a nifty device.

Edit (there was one upvote before I wrote this): Another issue: could such a list enable people to sue for getting a job, on the grounds that they had been discriminated against for being on the list?

Actually one reason I am opposed to feminism is that they seem to reject the notion that I should be able to decide who I like or not by myself (and it's not that I dislike people because of their gender or race - it's just a basic principle that I want to be in power of my own mind, thank you very much). Now they turn that on it's head - of course, not liking people is OK, if it's the feminists who do the not liking.

Edit 2: another thing, she should read some books by Dan Ariely. Turns out the "rational theory of crime" (claiming people commit crimes because they are unlikely to be caught or punished) does not explain things very well. Iirc people commit crimes because they can rationalize that they are still good people if they do so, for example they might feel they somehow deserve it, they see others doing it so they feel entitled to it, too, stuff like that.
You should totally add this use case to your README. That's the very first things my fellow student friends ask when I show them this.