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Occasional amateur painter here.

Yes, tracing images is immensely easier. Problem is it yields lousy paintings. Photographs have different perspective and lighting than what you see with your own eyes and paintings that have been made by tracing or even merely copying photographs almost always look, well, like someone smeared paint all over a photograph.

If you look at a Vermeer painting, you'll find it does not look photographic at all. The objects in the picture are almost tangible and seem to jump off the canvas. This is an effect that is only achievable by having very strong 3D skills: you basically have to be able to paint even more realistically than mere realism. So it might very well be that Vermeer used some tools to get a feel for what it was he was going to paint and maybe even to study the fleeting effects of lighting, but the final paintings themselves are without a doubt made by someone with exceptional skill.

TL;DR;Vermeer did not use these techniques because his paintings are way better than what can be achieved using only these techniques.
London to Aberystwyth is about 380km. I seriously doubt there's a tunnel.
The difference between America and England is that the Americans think 100 years is a long time, whereas the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Just for reference ...

My house was built in 1903. The college I went to was founded in 1352. The city my wife grew up in was occupied by the Romans sometime between 70 and 80 AD.
It doesn't exist.

There is a tunnel in Aber that was used to store valuables (Crown jewels, etc) during WWII, but it's certainly not a tunnel all the way from London.

Source: http://www.everythingaberystwyth.co.uk/aberystwyth-fact-of-t...
That does make more sense. I was initially pretty interested in how someone was able to run a "Privilege Escalation/Buffer Overflow" on what (I think?) is modern-day BSD OS.
> that has no impact on how people use Nodejs whatsoever.

... except people who actually read the code and documentation ...
It seems that with any cause, advocates typically break down into two camps: militant and inclusive.

The militant camp feels the only way to right the wrong they perceive is through positive action and active repression of the repressors. The inclusive camp feels that incremental change that improves the injustice they see will, given enough time, right the wrong without the need for punitive actions.

This has been the case with civil rights (MLK vs Black Panthers), environmentalism (WWF vs GreenPeace), animal rights (ASPCA vs PETA), and on, and on...

If I had to guess, I'd suppose that activists tend to break down along these lines because those they oppose break down in a similar fashion. There will be those who embrace the injustice and actively defend its existence. Then there will be those who don't perceive the injustice, or don't recognize its severity, but are open minded and willing to change.

I point this out, because I think it's useful to recognize these camps and to which you belong. I'm not willing to say one is right and the other is wrong. I suspect both are necessary to some degree. But if you look at the whole discourse in question here, some of the most disheartening exchanges are between individuals on the same side of the issue, but in different camps.
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There are two sizes of tube trains - "deep tube" and "sub surface" trains. The deep tube trains are much smaller, and they are difficult to stand in if you're near the doors for anyone who's over 6 feet (I'm 6'4"). That said, it's not the end of the world, as you're only standing there when it's crowded, but it does happen.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground#Trains
If I were a non native speaker faced with a small text edit that I didn't understand the reason for but which many people had just gotten angry about, I would probably not publicly revert it. If Ben wishes to blame his poor English skills (and I have not seen him suggest this, only people hypothesizing on his behalf) then I would suggest he become more aware of his weaknesses and not appoint himself judge of things he doesn't understand.
That's a very interesting point of view. I had never thought of the fact that disheartening exchanges are performed between individuals on the same side, but I guess that's true in many similar discussions...
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I think a decent solution is to allow users to give apps permission to do things like that, but not have them by default and make the app work even if it wants those things. For example I had some browser extension that wanted to have access to my entire history, even though it didn't need it at all. If you said no it wouldn't work at all. As opposed to giving it some default value for history like "the only site I've ever been to is google.com."

You should be able to have control over small things too. Like "allow this app internet access" or "allow internet access only when in use" and stuff like that.
As a Norwegian this keep coming up in lunch conversations. I just bought an old used car from somebody buying a Tesla.

What we come back to is the very high sale taxes on new cars in Norway (our "rule of thumb" is that cars are close to twice as expensive in Norway as in some other countries), but that most(/all?) of those taxes are waived for electric. So the alternative to getting, e.g., a Tesla is paying almost twice as much for a "similar" BMW. Same story for lower-end cars.

Also, on the commuter high-ways leading in to Oslo, there's one lane that's reserved for bus+taxi+electric (similar to the 2+ or 3+ person-per-car lanes in California). There's a joke that there's a standing queue of Teslas in that lane now (though I don't drive there so I haven't seen how much of an exaggeration that is).

Also, electric don't pay on the toll roads, which saves you 3-4$ each time if you're living outside towns and commuting in.
Thanks, though it appears to be North America only, and I'm in Europe.
https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc
With GDDR5 directly attached to the CPU as RAM this thing would be very interesting for some of the tougher crypto-currencies. And the economics may work out well since they are sold at cost and could probably be recovered back into a gaming system when mining is no longer profitable.
It's harder to write non-gendered stuff in English than to write gendered stuff, but I'm sure Shakespeare would have been pretty easily up to the job if he had cared.
A List of all known "Cold War" Nuclear Bunkers and Subterranean Complexes in the UK.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/873564/posts
This is Ben's latest position from 5hrs ago:

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...

Until that moment, I don't think he was even asked what his position was and why he acted the way he did.
Tim Jenison was interviewed by Leo Laporte on Triangulation (http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/118). They start talking about it between minutes 35 and 36, and he describes the process in a little more detail, including magnification, distance from the canvas and so forth
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Well, it's not so much that the ruins are likely to be found "deep" underground, but some are as much as 3 or 4 stories underground. It used to be that it was easier to build on top of existing structures - or the remains thereof - rather than cart the trash out and start fresh.

If you ever go to Rome, you'll notice that the Colosseum, for example, is at surface level, but most of the land around it is raised up. During street work, you can see parts where they've uncovered foundations, often digging down quite a ways to get to what was the street level at the time. In a place like Rome, when they uncover new ruins, they'll generally be studied for a while and then covered back up because it's the easiest way to preserve the site because they still need the land above it to be usable.
On wikipedia I can count at least 6 different types of connectors for different voltages/current, sounds like a deal breaker to me.

I'd rather have devices adapt Power over ethernet which requires just one cable and gives many more opportunities for networked future of devices.

in fact http://www.commercialintegrator.com/guide/product/details/po...
http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/the_wire/2012/06/14/fsr...

So I think R45 is a better standard to rely on, that it does have option to carry networked data and intelligently carry voltage to charge usb powered devices.

you can already get RJ45 hubs on the cheap too, ones with 8 ports and such.
"to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent."

I, uh, what?! maybe a quick chat first?
Top comment outlining typical HN behaviour - check ;-)

PS. Bitcoin FTW.
The EC memorandum was only passed after the industry had already decided on its own to implement it: http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/mobile-industry-unites-to-drive...
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Precisely! :-)
...and what of languages that have no gendered pronouns? For native speakers, constructing a gender neutral sentence in English is considerably more difficult. Your experience does not invalidate the experience of others.
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Does any body know how to mine litecoin on amazon step by step from scratch?
There's another, called Burlington, on the Great Western mainline - after you go through Chippenham en route to Bristol, there's a point in the long tunnel, which leads to the bunker station. It was where the government were supposed to scurry off to in event of nuclear war. Enough space to support thousands.
But in Russian (as in other Slavic languages) you would use more frequently equivalents to words like 'people', 'nobody' in sentences like these, i.e., when it is not necessary to convey the sex (not grammatical gender). The fact that each noun has a grammatical gender (m/f/n) and verbs/adjectives/etc. tend to take suffixes to reflect these is a totally different thing.
So let me just understand something - Bryan Cantrill, oh he of the "Ever kissed a girl" fame [1], is now lecturing someone about gendered pronouns?

And now we are all up in arms?

Remarkable.

1. http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html
See: Europe
See: the US

And while in some fields there's the need to "import people" (IT basically), there's a chronic lack of jobs in some other fields. Source: spent 2 years working in Europe.
No, it still has no impact on how people use Nodejs whatsoever.
> Are ancient cities actually getting higher in altitude as old ruins get covered up?

I recently watched a TV show from a relatively old series about underground cities where they showed the underground of Istanbul. Very interesting, but I can't remember the name of the show.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome_of_Constantinople for instance:

"The course of the old racetrack has been indicated with paving, although the actual track is some 2 m (6.6 ft) below the present surface. The surviving monuments of the Spina (the middle barrier of the racecourse), the two obelisks and the Serpentine Column, now sit in holes in a landscaped garden."
Interestingly, the guys I know who have English as a second language and are developers prefer to use English for all technical documentation. Some even are actively annoyed by those who use their native tongue.

Of course, that's biased by the fact that those people speak English, that's why I can converse with them. I'd be curious to know if this was a majority opinion, or a minority!
Many thanks for the information.
We prefer master and slave COMPUTERS than master and slave humans. Isn't it what counts most?
Don't forget that things aren't the same everywhere. The land in Alaska and New York is rising pretty fast, geologically speaking, since the weight of glaciers came off. Meanwhile New Orleans is sinking. Chicago took matters into their own hands and raised street level an entire floor to combat flooding. We still have ancient caves at ground level in New York, but I'm sure stuff buried under a city survives better.
EDIT: Stories about sexism & racism, minor or major, in the tech-scene almost always disappear off HN's front page in like 2 minutes. That's another symptom of a problem as far as I'm concerned.

That is for anything 'controversial' There was a post the other day that found it was any story that has more comments than likes, and atleast 40 comments will be penalized. So, if you want stories like this to last on the front page longer do not comment on them as much.
Well, If you count both Node and Libuv then he is the number one active contributor BY FAR. Be is a real powerhouse behind the Node project.
The post office tunnels http://www.silentuk.com/?p=2792 just seems crazy to abandon these recently.

Use of these must be worth a fortune given where they run.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. That seems quite reasonable and he admits he didn't understand the point of the request, and that he shouldn't have reverted it. Pretty classy work.
The terms "master" and "slave" come from human slavery. You can't deny the roots of this terminolgy.
Oh I trust BSD code

What I don't trust are the proprietary additions/modifications.
Wow, the response from Joyent seems ridiculous. Saying you would fire someone (who doesn't even work for you) when you haven't even asked them why they did what they did is stupid. You're overreacting, doing it without full information, and doing it publicly. It seems even worse when you read the response from Ben: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...

NB: I don't know much/anything about Joyent/Ben so my perspective is just from what I've read on GitHub and this post.
It's not a social sigma at all. Most of video games are just boring and tiresome. I used to play a lot, but now it's just pointless, playing modern games is not fun.

Prices for AAA+ titles are also ridiculous. Experience went down the toilet, but prices are the same or even higher, something is wrong.
I love this game. I had it on iPhone for a while.

I created life, and man and some other cool stuff. It got too hard though!
We'd need a "micro-RJ45" to get any adoption among portable devices such as phones or tablets. And some solution to those terrible plastic clips.
Can you explain what do you mean by tougher? Because in BTC IIRC the ram is irrelevant and ASIC-s rule the day
In Russian, when you write "user" - "пользователь", you would definetly write "решил" - "decided (with implicit musculine gender)". That is just how the grammar work in this language. To change that one would not simply replace the pronouns but also transform about 50-60% of other words in a colloquial everyday speech. Changes like this take centuries!
Aww, the poor carriers.
There's a heap of info and analysis on Reddit, which has a similar system. Try /r/theoryofreddit for example.
It's the same in german, even to the point where obvious female words do not have a female gender. People have tried for the last 40 years to make the language gender neutral with absolute appalling results. Some gender neutral versions are almost entirely being used for satiric purposes only.

As an example "This is the girl, she is beautiful" in german is "Das ist das Mädchen, es ist wunderschön" usually uses a neutrum pronoun (object). "es" == it because Mädchen is neutrum. That's just how the language works and forcefully changing it results in terrible sentences.
Yes! Besides, the idea of "gender neutrality in speech" might not be as widely spread and heavily discussed in Netherlands as in the US society.
They make profits with licensing app developers to develop stuff for their system. The console itself makes not much money. (don't have a proof, but I work for an IT company that pretty much does the same in a B2B/B2A market)
This story is getting annoying.
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In 2006 China demanded all mobile telephone manufactures to standardise on USB connections for charging and data transfer. South Korea did so a year earlier, requiring 'standardized charging' without explicitly stating USB. [1]

I'm curious if or how this requirement had any impact on charger standardisation. The Chinese market combined with economies of scale for common production models could have outweighed any cost benefits a market for chargers could have brought.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Government-Demands-US...
maybe do what other enterprise-y websites do? Don't show the price, get a phone/face-2-face discussion and evaluate the price depending on the customer?
How do you get a job in North Korea?
Even more ridiculous when you realise that the one threatening the "firing" is Bryan Cantrill, who once wrote this (scroll to the bottom):

http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html
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I can't respond to the article itself, since I can't read it, since I refuse to turn on JavaScript for random web sites. BTW HN itself works great without JavaScript.

To your point about "uninitialized variable" nets, if the net was truly a singleton it would show up as such in a netlist report. This capability existed in board design tools I used 30 years ago. What might have happened is a renamed net might have been split into two different nets. E.g. a net that connected 10 places became two nets, one to 8 places, another to 2 places. Not a singleton.

There are additional checks that netlist generation tools can do. E.g. does every net have a "driver" or "output" on it, or does it consist of all "inputs". Absence of driver can easily be flagged as an error. However, there is one wrinkle. Sometimes, nets are "busses" and are bidirectional. Each pin of the net can be either an input or an output at various times. That's harder to detect as an error.

There are many ways to avoid problems like this. Two common ones:
1) READ THE LOGS. I'd bet even money that your problem shows up in the logs as a singleton net or as a net without a driver.
2) SIMULATE. Board functional simulation has been possible for over 30 years; it's not always done. Did your engineer simulate his design? Why didn't his simulation catch the problem?

Sometimes, in board design (as in FPGA design) it's faster and certainly easier to just get 99% of the way there ahead of time and debug the final few errors on the board itself. That might be the case here, so if your company made this decision a priori, then you shouldn't be surprised if you need to spend some time debugging a few simple errors.

BTW that sort of sloppiness just wouldn't fly in chip design. Chips are usually far far far too complicated; extensive pre-tapeout simulation is de rigueur. And it takes weeks (if you have much money and a very good relationship with a fab) or months to get revised silicon. Much easier to do a few cuts and jumpers to a board than to do a silicon spin.

As to "refactoring support", most CAD systems I was familiar with didn't have an easy way to rename a net across multiple "pages" of a board design. Maybe the tools have gotten better. IMO that sort of refactoring (if done extensively) is a losing proposition anyway. You're much better off with careful attention to detail up front. You should be very careful renaming nets that cross schematic pages; you wouldn't have the problem if you carefully thought about the names before you created the schematic.

In summary, even the best tools won't help a sloppy designer.
Tougher currencies to ASIC, Litecoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work, so its still mined with GPUs.
In Chinese, pronouns are not distinguished by gender; the third-person pronoun is 他[ta]. In modern written Chinese, however, they are spelled differently by gender. At some point in the recent past, some person of authority innovated the characters 她 and 它 (both, obviously, pronounced ta) to refer to females and nonhumans, in order to more easily translate European literature into Chinese. For whatever reason, they are now considered standard spelling. The twist is that it turns out to be useful sometimes to use gender-neutral language, so when a chinese text is specifically trying to be gender-neutral, instead of using 他, it will often use "TA" (the actual roman characters). I can't help but feel that it's a long, pointless rigmarole to go through in order to arrive where you started from.

(There's also a character 妳, the female equivalent of the second-person pronoun 你, but owing to the inscrutable whims of politics it hasn't caught on in the mainland.)
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He must have grown up a little in the last 16 years, good for him.
I was dubious too, but I trust the source of that information.

The bunker in question isn't on any of the lists you'll find on the Internet. The bunker is also very well hidden. I can't find the entrance on Google Maps, but I'm very sure of the location within a few kms.
Right. And even then, if you open a resource intensive page in Chrome, it will often kill processes that have ongoing notifications.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819969
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I agree it's debatable in terms of relationship of Leninism to "vanilla" Marxism. It is much less debatable, I think, that Leninism is an honest (in the sense of not being intentionally wrong or deceptive) continuation of the original Marxist sociology and economy (at least the "late Marx" version of it). So in that sense I took the term Marxism to encompass all those strains of social and economic theory based on late Marx.
16 years, no apology. Willing to "fire" someone over a misunderstanding over a documentation update. Who doesn't work for his company.

That's quite some stunted growing up going on there!
I don't believe it is known. It is still in use. See my other comment.
It's trivial in that's it's small. Ben doesn't say that the matter of gender in computing is trivial.

Personally, I would have clicked the button because documentation is important to me. However a lot of people don't like smaller fixes like that. I don't agree but that doesn't make them bad people.
Thanks for the comment. I truly care about what you think.
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Almost everybody seems to forget that simply merging the pull request is only a temporary solution. It places an additional burden on the developer, who is neither a native English speaker nor necessarily interested in learning a politically correct lingo.

Anybody who comes with such changes should already have proven that they are willing and able to contribute long term to the documentation. This doesn't seem to be the case here.
I don't find his response/explanation so difficult to believe.

Gender neutral language(especially for non-native English speakers) is quite simply not viewed as an important enough issue to warrant retroactive application.

Should it be? Certainly; and while I think it's important that the change be made, and the developer informed about the importance of gender-neutral language in future documentation, I personally think that labeling a core developer of an awesome piece of OSS as a misogynistic asshole without even giving him time to respond publicly is an over-reaction.

It's a sensitive issue that should have been resolved privately.

If the developer actively continued to include gender specific grammar and denied future pull-requests retroactively applying gender neutral language then I think the title of misogynistic asshole would be much more applicable.

One denied pull-request and a revert does not a misogynistic asshole make.(imo)