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No we do not control the rules. Quoting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

"If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?" the king demanded. "The general, or myself?"

You can not just wish any rules and laws of human or physical nature. You can tell people to fly like butterflies, but when they do not, your anger at them would be misdirected. If you try to act as if there are no rules except ones you invent, you, not unlike many socialists that imagine they can ignore the laws of nature, are in for a lot of unpleasant surprises. You can blame the evil capitalists - just like Venezuelan government, having mismanaged the country for years to the point they have now shortage of toilet paper (why is it always the toilet paper? that basic thing has some very bad luck with socialists) now blames the capitalists and hidden enemies. But that won't do you any good, as it doesn't do any good for them. Until you recognize the rules of the system is not purely under your control, you won't get very far.
No, this is trivial and his stand was just him being pointlessly argumentative. It's entirely unproductive from both an equal rights standpoint as well as a technical one.

Drama for drama's sake is and should remain a firing offense.
I feel like I'm greatly missing out on new stuff like this. I'm trying to get a turtle bot together and build a sort of lab component of Prof Thrun's robot car class. But I wonder what else I could be doing. Anyone have pointers?
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"butthurt" is slang for rape.

I suggest you edit your comment to remove the offensive language and make it more inclusive to the Hacker News community.
That $15M figure is wildly speculative, and assumes an average wattage per gigahash that's more in line with the state of mining as much as 2 years ago, when GPUs dominated mining.

ASIC units (like my 14.5GH/s from two BFL units which pull less than 50W together) are far more efficient than the quoted 650W per gigahash, by up to two orders of magnitude, which would push the average for the whole network far below break-even.
I don't think that's verging, as they aren't referring directly to him.
Before of this incident each company (Joyent & StrongLoop) had two core members in the project, now StrongLoop have only one: Bert Belder
I would use this in Canada (Vancouver!)
> He could have just smooshed the big green button and scored one for the "not pointlessly defaulting to masculine terms" team

No specific change should be considered to be above the rules, and especially not those that have some sort of political agenda behind them.

I don't contribute to Node, but if I did, I would expect to follow all their procedures for accepting diffs, and Alex Gaynor's diff should have also been processed according to the same procedure. Why should his diff be more "special" than a one-line change I make in some code?
Which functionalities are you referring to?
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I'm afraid if we will start measuring people by their "social worthiness" we'd very quickly arrive to conclusions which most readers of the New Yorker would be very reluctant to support. At least I hope they would.
He gave a perfectly reasonable explanation why he did what he did: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
Exactly my point. This $15M figure is completely wrong.
+1 for defending women's rights while using the term 'butthurt'.
Was the strongloop blog post modified since you linked to it? It really doesn't match your characterization of Issac Roth at all. Quite the opposite, actually.
You're missing one very important detail: the person issuing the pull request didn't sign a CLA.
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I'd never heard of Ben before this whole ordeal, but he unfortunately projected like an asshole, with zero damage control instincts and no apparent sense of urgency for reconciliation. If you can't contribute to a positive space, you should probably find a less public project where you're free to exercise your lack of emotional intelligence.
Not a cyclist, got a bike and went 5000 miles, planted shit in 9 countries
Not true. I was frustrated when indiegogo deducted money from my bank account instantly when I pledged for the Ubuntu phone. It was surprising because I had only pledged significant amounts on kickstarter previously. Honestly, for someone without much in the way of liquid assets it was frustrating to have so much money frozen for over 30 days.
snprintf is C99 IIRC. Which means legacy C89 compilers (or worse!) don't have it.
Nice segue to bitcoin... if there were karma here you would get it

Wouldn't Kickstarter just return bitcoins if the project was underfunded? Would fluctuations in price prevent this?
I was curious so here's my napkin calculations:

Assume a block erupter is the base level to get into mining now. The network hash rate right now is 6,751,767.65 GH/s. Let's round to 6,600,000GH/s. Block erupters are 330MH/s and take 2.5w. The network would need 20m of them. That would be 50MW, or 1,200MWh / day. PG&E charges me $0.15 per kWh. So running the network would be $180,000 / day.

Yeah there's a lot of assumptions in there, but that's nowhere near $15m.
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The article says they acquired 7 small companies recently, so I'm guessing they're looking for super-experienced people. Like people/teams who have designed and built a few robots from scratch before.
I am quite serious.

"No" is a powerful word, and the "no means no" slogan is about enforcing the power of that word and the expectations our society place on it no matter the context.

Women and sexuality do not have an exclusive claim to protection from having someone force their ideals or their actions upon you or, as in this case, your repository.
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No, it's not. It references rape, but is not synonymous.

Its current definition is roughly synonymous with "unreasonably upset".
Ok, so $3.6M is our upper limit in terms of electricity costs... and I'd wager the electricity costs are close to the total payout. That's always been the trend in mining; the reward normalizes to the cost.

That's always been my frustration with the bitcoin network. It is a perfect zero sum game, so improvements in hashrate and increases in power consumption are not actually productive, just part of an arms race. Whoever consumes more electricity wins, assuming the miner operates in the black by some margin.

Edit: That said, the explosion in the BTC/USD exchange rate has probably thrown that balance way out of whack for the moment.
That's almost 20% faster than the original. Not bad at all.
Maybe they Kicktrolled themselves in order to raise publicity on their misfortune? It's not easy to get on the front page of HN...
Having said that, he didn't deserve a public shaming by the sponsoring organization. Unfortunately, that seems like it was political :/
Interesting, it's only based on user submissions, or do you also import from sources?

We have something similar at Theneeds, in the Money area [1]. I'd happy to talk more if you'd like.

[1] http://www.theneeds.com/money
KNC units are pretty close to 1W per gigahash.
Arguably socially counterproductive. Smartphones are nice, but so was near-full-employment in the 50s and 60s.
I don't subscribe to the idea of property rights for information, so that detail is irrelevant to me.
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These are the lines that make me think he is an asshole.

> Ben made a mistake by not understanding how important the gender pronoun change was in the pull request. But he was trying to interpret the commit rules...

WTF? Any commit should be according to commit rules. And changes which do not actually affect how the code runs are actually unimportant from a core committer's point of view. Couldn't Issac Roth have empathized with that worldview a little more?

> But people deserve a chance to correct their mistakes and improve.

"You enforced standard commit policy, but because the extreme feminists didn't like it, I am going to give you a chance before firing you."

...aaaand

> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him. [Edit: See comment below. This is not meant literally.]

"If Ben can't learn, we will fire him. Don't worry, only figuratively fire him. Work out how we can figuratively fire him, good day!"
> Here's hoping Ben now finds a workplace that appreciates him for his talents and respects him as a person.

He'd better find one that respects him more than he appears to respect women.

What's oddest about this is the amazing volte-face Bryan Cantrill appears to have performed. It wasn't that long ago he was adressing gross deficiencies in Solaris' performance compared to Linux on SPARC hardware with snarky, personal, and rather sexist jokes: http://www.cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html

(On edit: added more about Cantrill's own background in this area...)
Since when are banks an industry ?.

Ah ok, they produce debt, that sounds industrious.
The perspective of this is so wrong. Minecraft was a Plaything for notch, he wrote the beginnings of it in his free time while working for a different company. He certainly never thought of or even optimized it for being a massive world wide hitgame that needs a consistent modding API. If he did that, i am sure that Minecraft would probably never have seen the light of day as he would have lost interest in it, because most of all it was a sideproject to creatively explore an idea.

Coming in years later when everything has grown tremendously and saying that many of the early design decision were wrong, is so ignorant it infuriates me.
I see, I've suggested a very simple change to a single word of your comment which would make it more inclusive to the community, but you have refused to change it and instead taken a stand of principle.

I now have the choice of respecting your decision, or pressing the big red button to incite an internet mob upon you and score one for radical feminism.

I'll let you know my decision shortly.
If you turn the ball over before reaching your own 30, you give the other team at least 3 points, because a field goal at that distance is trivial.

This bot also requires both coaches to follow it's recommendations, because otherwise the comparison between what they call "point values" of the two teams becomes meaningless.
1) Non-native speakers should know better than to pass judgement on linguistic issues without consulting others.

2) Ben rejected the change over 40 minutes after the submitter stated he had submitted a CLA.
I don't understand how copying a website almost feature by feature can make it to the front page of HN
You're exaggerating.

I think WebGL is awesome. In combination with HTML5 audio and video, we can finally get rid of Flash and Silverlight and Java Applets or whatever crappy plugin that people have been using to distribute games and audio/video on the web. This is a good thing. The only reason for why we are seeing less and less usage of these plugins is because WebGL and the other parts of HTML5 are finally taking off, in combination with native mobile apps built on non-standard, often proprietary platforms. These proprietary platforms (e.g. iOS, Google's Play Services, etc...) are far more dangerous for the open web, than whatever ends up being standardized in W3C.

Those Chrome apps can and will be built mostly with HTML, CSS and Javascript. They will for the same reason that many people keep building HTML, CSS and Javascript today - for all the bitching and moaning about it, it's actually quite convenient and easy to build something functional and cross-platform and worry free, plus there's a huge knowledge base built around these technologies.

On rewriting the browser to have a small core and a UI built on top of web technologies, I think that will be awesome and from what I've been reading, Mozilla is already working on a next-gen Firefox that does it.

I'm far more worried about Dart VM or PNaCL, because in order to improve the web, Google is trying to replace Javascript with their own non-standard technologies, relying on their big market share to do that (sound familiar?). Which is why I'm happy that Mozilla exists to bring some balance with Asm.js and Firefox OS and the like. As proof, Mozilla forced Google's hand to include Asm.js in their optimization targets and that popular Unreal Engine demo works quite well right now in Chrome. So we still have healthy competition in the browser space and good things will come out of it.
Counterproductive as compared with what? Repeatedly and deliberately ignoring and / or misrepresenting facts and reason?

Trust me: in cases where this gets used it's already a lost cause.

Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" showed that sometimes ridicule is precisely the right tool for the job. No, he didn't change the minds of those he was portraying, but he clearly demonstrated to everyone else the reality. Stewart and Colbert continue his tradition.
Ask HN: New York vs San Francisco (Tech Edition)
All,
I have lived in San Francisco for a couple of years now working in tech. I am not thinking about potentially moving to NYC. I would appreciate a career discussion of what it means to move to work. I work in data science if that helps narrow things down.

I would also appreciate comments on how the two cities compare. I have read articles about how NYC is always on but SF is more laidback but I am not sure how that fits in tech (which I feel is always on). Also, some thoughts on cost of living in both cities and salaries would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
If you read the github thread, you'd see that Ben actually never participated in the drama/discussion until it blew up. Ben essentially rejected the pull request, then a giant PR nightmare blew up overnight with blog posts from Joyent & Strongloop. He decided to leave because of the whole ordeal from the companies.
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I don't think he appears to really disrespect women. I would say that he is, as are most guys in tech, ignorant of issues around sexism and arrogant enough to believe that if he is not aware of an issue it does not exist. Having read his responses, I think he seems like a reasonable guy who could stand to understand the world better.

edit: it wasn't that long ago? 16 years ago I was in elementary school. That's like 3 tech aeons ago.
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BoredBanker is an excellent name - memorable, amusing & not overly long. There's already enough dry, grey, "serious" content associated with this industry - having an offbeat and slightly subversive name will be part of your appeal.

People who tell you they won't use the site because of the name are being disingenuous - if the quality of news & discussion is good enough they'll come.
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Not quite a hard upper limit – I suspect there's a fair bit of mining going on using electricity that isn't being paid for by the person running the rig... (At the very least that single ~2.5W USB ASIC I can see across the office here…)
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Ask HN: What business domain needs SMS/USSD based UI the most?
Hello HN,

Last few years I have been developing SMS (binary SMS)-as-a-Service applications, in python and java eco stack, where I've learned the internals of SMS (3GPP TS 23.040) and SIM cards security(3GPP TS 23.048).

Now I've allocated 30% of my work week to work on something new, something challenging on my own by mixing this hard earned knowledge with other different domain. According to technology radar 2013 (http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar), there is a need for SMS/USSD UI for applications. Problem is that its very hard to choose a domain where I can apply SMS/SIM knowledge.

I need a different perspective from you guys. Please do share your different views of applying it. Maybe I could find a business co-founder here. (Currently I live and work in Norway/Trondheim)
(The author of this article saw my comment on reddit and modified his article.)
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what does that even mean?
I just don't understand how a company the size of Joyent would waste time writing blog posts about pronouns in a code comment. This would be the equivalent of Microsoft blogging about some engineer's code comment in the Windows source code. Nobody cares about that stuff.
I have issues with 1. Native speakers of English already enjoys tremendous privilege in open source world -- see antirez of Redis, another non-native speaker's take on this: http://antirez.com/news/61 -- and it should be native speakers who should be understanding of failings of non-native speakers, not the other way around. Check your privilege!
Yes, but Xamarin Studio isn't supported on Linux: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142
Agreed. Also, in the name of "understand your market" - what did early HN readers get from reading HN that they wouldn't elsewhere and how does that translate to finance? Would HN be successful if some random dude had started it instead of PG? I admittedly wasn't around in the early days, but back then I would imagine that the expectation was "wow, generally people who post on here are legit" as a direct consequence of that association.

I'm not familiar with the author - is he/she someone baller enough in the finance world to draw quality discussion? Are people going to break away from WallStreetOasis and minesweeper for this? Is there useful industry-relevant information? (My impression from friends who've gone into finance is that technical skills matter for jack shit as long as you're competent, and relationships, positioning, and sounding like you know what you're talking about rule the day. Is that something you can vaguely convince yourself you're getting better at at while wasting office time on a finance hacker news clone?)

Unrelated, I've always thought it would be fun to hem up a corpus of SeekingAlpha articles, use some rudimentary NLP to look for clear short-term bullishness or bearishness on some specific security, and see if you can either (a)find anyone who's demonstrably worth reading and following (and maybe trading based on them), or (b) more likely point out that everyone is full if s, most of them are convinced of their own s, and in the end it's all clickbait with charts and important-sounding finance words.
Because it's single core score is 7 times faster than the next fastest score.

That sounds like proof that it's completely bogus, because there is no such processor anywhere.
"Electricity consumption is estimated based on power consumption of 650 Watts per gigahash..."

My BFL Jalapeño does 7.6 GH with ~70W, plus a couple more for the RaspberryPi. That's two orders of magnitude lower than these reported figures, and massive scale ASICs are even more power efficient.

Seems nobody does investigative reporting anymore. In fact, not even "common-sense-math reporting..
Unless you are a rape victim you have no right to determine what is and isn't acceptable usage of the term.

Please respect the triggers of other people and check your privilege.
Kicktrolling... I'm just wondering how bored and frustrated a person must be to pull this kind of weird shit.

Seriously, I can imagine it is kind of fun to troll some overly serious dudes in a specialized forum, while I would not even waste my precious time for that. But trolling people who actually try to achieve something?

Why oh why?
Because of this incident (and Joyent response on it), Isaac Roth from StrongLoop and others are asking for a neutral home for project:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/mqSf47HhmyY/Wl8Od9vb1...
yep, if you want your product to succeed, it has to be a really good product... why do people think this article is so great? isn't what altman says common sense?
Here:

Rectangle(100, 100, 400, 400)

That or something very similar [1] draws a rectangle from pixel position (100,100) to (400,400) in many high level 2D graphics environments. Just posting this to point out that you do not have to make things more complicated than necessary.

OpenGL is a standard for hardware accelerated 3D graphics and it is inherently complex because of that. If you just want to do 2D do not bother with it.

[1] http://love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.rectangle
Ever tried writing an NSF grant? The people who take 50% of the grant to help you write a quality proposal also do something that is completely socially worthless and in fact halves how much taxpayer money ultimately makes it back into society. And no, that's not a form of "job creation" since it brings no utility to society.
Windows C++ development on Visual Studio is composed of a lot of tribal knowledge. I am surprised WTL isn't even an officially supported framework, while they leave their ATL and MFC kits rotting in neglect.
Please goto http://sqlmap.org . Watch the video. And weep. If you have really simple sql exception like this, you can craft queries that will dump the entire database including it's schema and users byte-by-byte with an automated script.

SQL Injections are the basis of escalating further and possibly even hacking into the whole underlying system.

I know for a fact that I can dump any of these databases within hours. I do not know what's in them, but I'm guessing it's not information that any of these 100.000 business owners will want to disclose of their clients.

I also know it's illegal, but then agian, will that bother any 13 year old kid that feels himself a 1337 h4xx0r? Any Russian delegation? I think not.
It's Taco Bell fast food. Food quality will be universally better if it doesn't rely on the local staff of minimum wage earning kids. Fresh and freshly cooked? You've clearly never eaten at a Taco Bell throughout the decades. Their prep and presentation today is much, much better than say 30 years ago.
Refactoring and code navigation.
Although Ben could have handled this better, it's quite obvious that this is just a strategically motivated witch hunt by Joyent. Their actions are vicious and completely out of proportion.

Sidenote: In Ben's native language, using gender neutral pronouns is considerably more contrived and artificial, and therefor not a regular subject of debate when it comes to gender equality.
"He'd better find one that respects him more than he appears to respect women."

I've read his responses twice now, and i don't see, in either case, anything that makes me think he doesn't respect women.
Can you please point it out? I'm genuinely interested. The guy said like 7 sentences none of which said anything like "i think what is being done here is wrong" (instead, he said "i generally reject trivial doc fixes for X reasons") and is being crucified.

From where I sit, you have to add a lot of implications and subtext to what he said to get anything like that.

IE Do you not take him at his word for why he rejected the changes?

Or do you believe the very act of not being interested in these types of trivial doc fixes, when some of them change gender pronouns, makes him disrespectful of women?

(I've belonged to plenty of open source projects that would reject trivial comment/doc fixes like this when done en-masse, regardless of whether they were to fix spelling or gender pronouns or whatever, so i'm willing to take him at his word)

What am I missing?
After an hour of playing around (nothing malicious) yes it is vulnerable, a lot of sites use the same DB structure (which is because they were made by the same people) and passwords are stored in plain text.

So No it is not just syntax error.
Seems like really well done science reporting that not only addressed the correlation v causation possibility, but explained why this finding is interesting even if it is just correlative.