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It's not trivializing anything.

It's a parody of views expressed by extreme social justice warriors, usually associated with the Tumblr scene.

There's nothing inherently bad about rape jokes. They're a form of black humor, but so is a lot of comedy. Humor is a coping mechanism. We often laugh at things that deep down are quite disturbing, but are presented in such a manner that we may calmly deal with uncomfortable ideas and find relief.

In fact, all great comedians are provocative and shocking to a degree. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, etc. If we were to follow the advice of hypersensitive narcissists who insist that certain jokes offend them and therefore shouldn't be told, that would pretty much be the death of it all. Some jokes are supposed to elicit disgust, unnerve or provoke. The most masterful is one that offends you yet makes you laugh simultaneously.
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I have a non-technical mattress question... why can't I get a mattress that doesn't give me terrible body impressions!?!? I've gone through several in my adult life. Once they start sagging it gives me terrible back troubles. Drives me crazy this can't be solved.
The "off != off" is a good point, but that's still redefining Off a bit.

The "capability in practice" you link to is slightly questionable because we have A Dumb Bad Guy claiming they turned their phone off. We don't know the entire story.

Regardless of everything here: you are right that phones are out of our control at this point. If you don't want to be found, don't keep anything capable of emitting RF around you (including, but not limited to: phones, laptops, tablets, anything with RFID/NFC embedded, toll collecting car passes, tires with embedded RF transmitters for authentication or tire pressure checks, bluetooth headsets, bluetooth speakers, wifi/bluetooth digital scales, bluetooth hearing aids, ...).
We currently are #1 in Top Rated in our category of Mattresses & Box Springs which is the category that encompasses all of those products.

We aren't ranked as the #1 Best seller which we don't mean to cause any confusion with. Those are typically Prime only products and those are ranked by sales volume.

There may also be a difference in ranking if you're in a region that we don't ship to such as outside of the USA. I'm not sure how Amazon differs rankings by country.
Our brains are not, as far as I know, running any kind of recognizable simulation like we would with a computer.

By this logic, a professional ball player should miss any ball thrown at an unfamiliar angle, and amateurs should only be able to catch balls thrown to them at specific angles and velocities. It doesn't take much to build an integrator or differentiator out of electronics, so with [big number] neurons available to the task, I'd be surprised if we weren't running some kind of predictive analog simulation.

And so they 'remember' where the ball is going to land, and they remember how to move to get there.

Do you have a mechanism in mind for how this 'remembering' takes place, if not via simulation encoded by DNA marked, proteins folded, and/or synapses grown in response to successes and failures over time?
That’d be great. I’m in NYC

feel free to drop me an email, even if you’re not in NYC. I’d love to chat
>Everyone hates it ...

I don't; that's a bit of a sweeping generalization. I happen to enjoy writing webapps in JAX-RS and Wicket, and I know a number of folks who enjoy writing them in other frameworks.
Despite not really needing very many bulk family sized items, my wife and I like shopping at Costco. You get hands on the items and can inspect them, and generally the quality of what Costco sells is well selected and very high (even if it's not fashionable). e.g. grab a random bottle of wine out of their wine section and you can guarantee it'll be pretty drinkable, even the $6 bottles. Their customer service and no questions return policy has more than paid for the very reasonable membership cost ($55 a year, which you'll probably just save on toilet paper purchases alone). But selection is slim and often hit and miss as favorite items rotate in and out of the stores.

Compare to Amazon, which sells multiple versions of the same SKUs from slightly different retailers (with slightly different shipping methods), and then hundreds of slightly different items all with a wide variance in quality and you spend hours reading reviews and comparison shopping. It's "ok" to do from home, but I frankly have better things to do with my time most of the time. However, for those really hard to find items, or ones that Costco simply doesn't carry, it's totally worth to shop at Amazon.
You can do both quite comfortably now. There's affordable (sub $2000 USD) 4K TVs, and consumer cards can push out 4L video if you gang them together. It's not really out of the range of possibility, I've been investigating making a setup capable of it in the very near future.
It sounds great (we will see if it is of course), but then there is some stuff about outsourcing on the infographic page which just confused me. What does outsourcing have to do with running my application on their servers? Are they offering an outsourcing service?

Also I got a "browser not supported" error when I played the video. I am running Ubuntu with Firefox. Honestly not a good sign...
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I assumed they did this and just don't enter anything private on such websites, even without hitting enter. I never actually checked, but what better way to learn thoughts than by unspoken words?
I used an explosion chain reaction, it was quite pretty: http://creativepark.net/img2/cwgl.png

This game should have more levels :)
There is at least fault with presenting all that assertion and speculation as "Law enforcement absolutely has that capability".

The first bit that approaches being evidence is the CNet article linked from the link, and it says

Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents, including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase could refer to software or hardware.

So the absolute proof is a court document that doesn't provide any details about the mechanism used to compromise a dumb phone in 2003.
Anybody know one for Chrome?
That's why I emphasize it. I think you took my point above the other way around.
This game was great! I didn't read the instructions (bad user, I know) and didn't even know I could shoot for the first game. Once I learned that I had a blast.

Might want to inline those keyboard instructions on the attract screen.
There's a great collection of essays in The Philosohy of Law (edited by Richard Dworkin), which gives a characterization of legal philosophy/thought in Western Analytic tradition, and Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Murray Bookchin), a sort of historical analysis on how the post-structuralists' thought played subnarrative to the orthogonal political philosophy of that tradition.

I tend to read longform articles. Thanks, news!
Winnipeg? G Tan! I never knew you were Canadian brethren.
Doesn't necessarily have to be jargon, it's a fairly common phrasing "would you ask that of him?" / "the client had an ask which we fulfilled". I suppose it can sound a bit biz-buzz but nothing specific to SV.
That's pretty neat - I hadn't heard about NVIDIA GRID before - http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-grid.html
Ninja web framework [1] is also worth a look. It's similar to Dropwizard in that it's less of a framework and more like a well thought out archetype building upon the best Java libraries. Two main differences I see are Ninja uses Guice for DI whereas dropwizard is manual DI. Dropwizard uses JAX-RS while Ninja has its own Play 1 style routing system.

While I really like JAX-RS, the reference impl Jersey uses HK2 for dependency injection, which makes it odd to integrate into a Guice application (in fact Guice support is still lacking with Jersey 2.x).

[1]: http://www.ninjaframework.org
> The double tap gesture comes after pointer events.

You make no sense, by your own description the double tap gesture changes what pointer events fire, pointerup can not fire until the UA knows for certain it's not going to be a doubletap, same as click.
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Yes we definitely did experience limitations in the beginning. We heavily relied on our dotcom sales for initial traction and feedback. To test our idea, we carefully trickled in traffic for some long tail keywords from SEO and Google AdWords. We still don't do any advertising besides some branded placements on AdWords and Facebook.

Listing our product on Amazon.com created additional sales and a new market which was great. But we realize this is a 3rd-party platform which we can't control and don't want to become dependent on it.
Yeehaw! Much deserved, Garry.
It is jargon. It's the thing one is going to ask for.

The meaning is slightly more specific than a generic word like "request" or "desire". It implies something specific, focused, and prepared.
> They'll see one request from Google per successful delivery to an inbox

But if the images are pre-cached before the user opens it, there is still no way of knowing the E-mail was read.

Unless the image is cached upon opening, which is a bit counter-intuitive.
This is almost as creepy as lie-detection by analysis of subvocalisation. Almost.
I remember being hooked to Dune2 when this game was all the rage, so I mostly missed it. Though I literally spent years with X-COM: terror from the deep. None of the successors came even close to the enjoyment these first two instances provided.
This proposed workflow reads like a product spec for a great web app... hopefully someone builds a website which does this exactly!
Could you expand on "crappy OO features"?
Also http://www.timesnapper.com/DownloadClassic.aspx can be helpful (on Windows)
I think Thomas is referring us to the discussion pursuant to that tweet, rather than just the tweet itself. Correct me if I'm wrong :)

That discussion goes into the definitions of "off" as they apply here, and Matt Blaze acknowledges (circuitously) that what we think of as "off" could conceivably leave the radio powered.
It's an "almost anywhere business is done in America" jargon.
I have always asumed they saved the text as a hole.
This comes more as a relief than a revelation for me.
The highest correlation for censoring are these demographics:
Average number of friends of friends 1.32, Group member count 1.29, Gender: Male 1.26, Gender: Male X Percentage male friends 1.11.

The lowest correlation for censoring are these demographics: Age 0.85, Percentage friends conservative 0.77, Percentage friends liberal 0.77. Extrapolating from the results,

Group that self-censors the most seems to be: Young male user with many male friends who are in a tight network.

Group that self-censors the least seems to be: Old users who are politically aligned

Probably expected, but hilarious anyways.
I would define reasoning as answering a question or optimization problem, e.g. What is my best move? What is a good move? This can be formalized as calculating some kind of score for a possible action, whereas prediction is just about assigning a probability value to an event.

So would it be fair to summarize this as "reason is prediction with a goal"?
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Go Garry!
SteamOS will be available here:

http://steampowered.com/steamosbeta

(now it's 404)
Sometimes look-the-other-way loopholes stick around if they suit both sides.

For example, brown-paper-bagging a bottle of beer with your buddies on the corner of your block, not causing trouble, then the cops have, though reasonable suspicion, the option not to enforce a law prohibiting drinking on your street corner (if you don't give them a reason to), an unwritten understanding that to my knowledge has been pervasive.

If you don't believe me, watch HBO's The Wire, it's in there.
Yes, the utility of the open rate is often misunderstood.

e.g. if you want to track revenues, you should rather track conversions with Google Analytics (integrate the tags in the links within your email).

The #1 use of the open rate is to measure how reactive your email subscribers are, and detect deliverability issues.

e.g. if your open rate drops for all the @hotmail destination, you know have an issue with this particular webmail.

Contrary to the click rate, the open rate is not an "absolute metric" because for example, some email clients would not load the images even if the recipient read your email. But still, it's very useful as it's the variations that matter.
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Yes. Saying "I'd like to catch up with you to discuss what we've been doing at X" isn't very specific, and can be a waste of time. "I'd like to see if you'd like to get in on our seed round, we're looking for $200,000" is very specific, and waaaaay better.
Seems some small farmers disagree with your "facts" 1&2:

Joel Salatin of polyface farms makes more than his neighbors (particularly on a per acre basis) by throwing away "big agribusiness" truisms like single purpose machinery, monocultures, and chemical stimulants for the land. He uses symbiosis instead, creates a premium product that his customers are willing to pay a premium for, all without subsidization (iirc).
It's impossible to know if the content for a different URL is the same without fetching it first, your point won't work.
As a Mainframe programmer I was Disappointed when I looked at the page. I was hoping this would be a web based Mainframe emulator possibly running public domain versions of OS/360.
So little utility defined how? I'm hard pressed to believe that a site almost a billion monthly uniques isn't providing utility to any of them. Or are you just on your latest "holier than thou" act and need to tell the world that you don't like facebook? Then congratulations for not liking facebook.
To be clear, this does not run software in the browser; it runs software in the cloud and displays it in the browser. Given the possibility of actually running apps in the browser I think this distinction matters.
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> Language choice is no where near as important as your DB-access patterns (and more generally DB performance, caching, etc).

I bet they have a really crappy backend storage system for account history/data.

We have a PayPal transaction history with a low 6 digits record count. Searching for a specific email address, name, or transaction ID can take literally minutes. Exporting a transaction history CSV takes hours.
What about twitch.tv?
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They've been hiring for this for a while now, https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=engineering...
I prefer the way rapgenius does annotations on the actual characters that the person is talking about.

Casetext seems to do it on the right hand side instead, which meaks it slightly unclear exactly what part is annotated.
It's already happening: http://downloads.pagefair.com/reports/the_rise_of_adblocking...

I'd imagine a site like Facebook would have much lower ad blocking rates than average, though, due to low technical ability among users.
I agree. "Food Pantry", at least in the US, is a "thing" already - it's either your pantry in your home, or the charity food bank that a community has. Most people that I know would think of the latter if you said "food pantry".
I use the basic droplet from DigitalOcean. Works like a charm.
In this age of the "post-page" Internet, it is best to assume that everything you do on a... "page" (cough) may be communicated, unless you take measures yourself to stop this.

This will continue to be a topic of concern and debate for at least some of us: Whose agent is the browser? The client's, or the host's?

Currently, design trends towards more and more "programmatic" content and behavior seems to be favoring the latter.

(I, for one, do not like this change.)
this sounds like the second coming of the webOS concept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_operating_system
Agreed. Most people are just too busy doing what they do best: building something or helping others build something. All of those "coffees" that build a bridge to nowhere add up.
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Do you think we really need a web app that does something this simple that can be accomplished via any existing email app/product? And I'm not trying to be a dick by saying that, I'm actually curious. I feel like I see sites that would do something like this (do something general, something that could easily be done with an existing app/product) a bunch of times each week that seem neat for a min, but then I completely forget about them. It always ends up being that the existing app/product you use a 100x a day is just easier to use/remember.
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There may be truth to this. I only recently finally decided to get AdBlock... and man... I can't imagine a world without it. Then again, whats to stop Chrome Store from removing the extension?
Is there any way to run your own Docker repository?

Edit: Looks like the correct term is registry.
Ditto on that confusion! I though it was frame + mattress.
Excellent point. I doubt that non-techie users will make that distinction, but agreed that its not quite accurate.
With Amazon's cloud desktop announcement, these guys will be in a tight spot...
Because, to hear them talk, there aren't many other options :-)
If that's the case, the word 'specific' in the sentence is what makes it specific, not the phrasing. You already know they want you to provide a request for something, but you don't know it's something specific until they specify specifically.

'give a specific ask' and 'ask a specific question' are therefore equivalent, with the exception that the former looks like it was written by a 5th grader.
And how do you get the image to compare it? By requesting it, which means you have to ask for it from a server, thus identifying that the image has been loaded.
This assumes that if we leave things as they were before, every interaction takes the same amount of time. Because of the network, and JavaScript processing beyond our control, this is not true. Not true on any mobile device.
As a frequent introducer, I would never forward the whole chain.

Consider the case of a friend looking for a job. If they come to me asking for an introduction, they may be open with me about things they wouldn't tell a stranger in the first minute of contact. E.g., concerns about the target company, fears they might not measure up, things going on in their life. It's hard for me to know what they don't want shared, I want to minimize the risk a violation of trust, and I don't want to guess at what the recipient might have an issue with. So I'll always write my own intro or ask for something I can forward.

Also, if someone dumps some unwelcome request from a pal in my lap, I'd be irritated that I had to do the work of bowing out. It's their friend, not mine, so it shouldn't be my problem. For that reason, I always ask permission to do an intro unless I have strong reason to believe the intro would be welcome. (E.g., if somebody told me they're looking for developers, I'll do intros without confirming an interest in each specific person.)
> What is maybe interesting to users is that there are people at Facebook who think it isn't right for the user to self-censor, that it apparently robs Facebook and your "friends" of the value in that self-censored post.

This is FUD. Facebook has a large data science team that publishes lots of studies on online behavior [1]. These are academic, peer-reviewed research papers. Insinuating that FB
as an entity thinks that "it isn't right for the user to self-censor" is unfounded speculation.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/publications
> Then again, whats to stop Chrome Store from removing the extension?

The fact that I'll switch to Firefox the day they do that?
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>“I realized that to program in a feminist way, one would ideally want to use a feminist programming language.”

Tell that to Admiral Hopper.

Programming languages aren't masculine or feminine. Programming is hard because you're a human trying to express yourself in the language of a computer. Not because you're a woman trying to express yourself in the language of a man.

There are barriers to women in tech, for sure, but those are social and cultural barriers, not "sexist tools".
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Sorry but what you are saying does not make any sense at all.

When you are buying mattresses from different brands, it's not the same product but with different label. There is thousands of variations. So basically it's like if your individual were looking to buy two different cars. And I don't think you believe a $10.000 car is the same as a $60.000 car even though the 60K one has way more margin for every stakeholder in the product chain.

And in this case I'm sorry to tell but it is even worse as it is like if they were selling a no-license car vs. a regular car.
My R pentomino initial configuration. [1]

Pieces played: 5

Game won in 499 generations.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/r2IcsRO.png
You know Paypal is owned by Ebay? I would bet a lot of their fraud policies related to physical goods are derived from their auction experiences.
This is why we have the beta, we're interested in cases where the user expects double-tap to work, but it doesn't.

However, with non-zoomable pages, this isn't a new problem at all.
You can tell from the quality of English that this rep was not from headquarters. Until you get an okay from those guys it's still up in the air.

And don't think flashing a chat transcript will save your account.
I see where you're coming from, and IANAL etc, but this surely must be a solved problem? For at least the last 15 years (longer?) we've had web mail where mail you send doesn't go directly to the user but via some other servers. If there is an actual issue here it's going to be a hell of a legal battle.
Dropwizard is pretty great, but one unfortunate aspect is that it's stuck with Jersey 1.x for JAX-RS and as a result is missing some nice features, like async responses, etc.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786921
Did you lose any disputes with scammers?
Lots of people trying to unblub blub.

I'd venture a guess that mimicking Node.js isn't going to fix the deeper problems with Java.
twitch.tv's archiving system leaves much to desired and i don't think plays prerolls (someone feel free to correct me if i'm wrong), in addition twitch's adfill is nowhere near youtube's
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