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I don't really understand. There are plenty of examples of work that discuss films without spoilers. Professional reviewers, especially, excel at this because they are explicitly aware of what parts of the movie will be fascinating to discover. And so your idea that everyone should cover their ears and run for the hills when they hear the word Moon would prevent them from finding out whether, say, they might want to watch it in the first place.

But regardless, you're missing the point. No one is complaining about the article containing spoilers or are trying to shut down the discussion; I think you must be reading too much connotation into the term "spoiler". What we're doing is providing the advice that people haven't seen the movie may wish to do so first, because it may be a lot more fun (I understand you may disagree, which is fine, but I stand by the advice). Your diatribe against "the cult of no-spoilers" is simply misplaced.
I am wondering if they are ever going to do this with bzr. I did not realize how much bzr development had slowed until I read the emacs bzr/git debate.
So does this mean you don't write any software that doesn't save lives? That you don't come onto Hacker News and make comments?

For whatever reason you find yourself doing a task. Gardening, washing dishes, building a web form, saving a life. Whatever it is you choose to do, why not do it as well as you know how? Why denigrate something as not being worth doing well because there are more important problems in the world?
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The right question: is P(prophet|says prophet) > P(prophet|says ordinary guy)?

My argument is only that any semi-mainstream religion is more likely to be true than some random arbitrary belief system. I.e., Christianity and Islam are both more likely than Anti-Christianity.

I just don't buy your argument that the evidence for all possible religions (including ones you made up for this argument only) cancel out. That's a massive coincidence. And if the evidence only cancels out 99.9999999% rather than 100%, you find yourself back in a Pascal's Wager situation.
You may disagree, but it's not ridiculous. It's perfectly reasonable. In fact, by calling it ridiculous, you're sending a very strong signal that people who ask questions about whether we should keep doing this the way they've always been done will be shamed.

Is that your intention?
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Maduro declared all protests illegal then a few hours later called for his supporters to protest against his enemies. This guys is literally destroying a nation.

I agree with you on Argentina but Brazil is probably a different story - not as corrupt and not as crazy. Peru and Ecuador are much closer to Venezuela's and Argentina's situation.

The amazing thing is how long these situations can go on. The combination of the survival skills of millions of people and their desire to avoid civil war along the lines of Syria mean this can continue for a very long time.
geraffes are so dumb.
Except that it's using referrer IP's. (I get 173.245.53.171, both our cloudflare IP's.)

Which is ridiculous. Agent IP's, fine (although this is a really stupid way to go about it).

Referrers, okay, but only if you suffer massive abuse via a certain link, otherwise it's really, really dumb and you may ban tens of thousands of innocent bystanders.

But referrer IP's? That's just beyond idiotic.
I read "customer" as "client" because it looks like the OP does consulting.
I'm not sure what issue you are having, but there is no captcha on my site & there do not appear to be any issues viewing it
"If you make a new form, limit salutations to Dr., Mr., Ms."

Why on earth is "Dr." in there? From those options it strikes me as if the form would really care about wether or not I am male or female, but if I am a doctor, then who cares if I am female or male, I have apparently made it to a higher state of being, one that transcends gender. Get rid of salutations all together. If it is important for you to know the persons gender, ask them specifically that question. If, for some unknown reason, you also need to know if the person completing the form is a medical doctor, or a doctor of another type, ask that question directly as well.
> If you make a new form, limit salutations to Dr., Mr., Ms.
If your customer wants Mrs. & Miss, push back. Up to you to decide how far and how hard, but make an effort.

Well done man, you went all the way to explain that we should not make differences between women and men, and there you still keep a difference for DOCTORS, like OMG do you not see the gaping abyss in your argument ?

Why don't you go all the way and push back on the use of ANY honorific title, because seriously there is no rationale to put people above others just because they studied more or obtained a position of power somehow.

You destroyed the whole point of your article, just because you want to fight for women but you should be fighting for equality for ALL if you were a little bit logical.
Then ask for marital status from men as well - Master and Mister. Unfortunately, they are abbreviated the same way, and the honorific Master has fallen into obsolescence.

Or just don't ask for it at all. I find it better to let the person determine how they would like to be addressed than limiting it based on my political agenda.
I just thought about this: pg complained about people with strong accents potentially being at a disadvantage. I've noticed a few other YC founders (and successful sfba founders in general) who have strong accents; they're at a disadvantage, but it's not terminal. (the worst accents compared to overall level of success otherwise are probably Singlish speakers; EE are sometimes thick accents but generally standard vocabulary and grammar, and Indian English is a little bit of vocabulary but mainly pacing and accent, and generally not very far off from SFBA American English after a few months)

What I don't see is a lot of founders who are bad at written communication. Maybe it's self-selection (those who can't write are less likely to try to write online, so I won't see them as frequently, if ever), but it really seems like being good at written English is a requirement for being a successful tech entrepreneur now. "Good at written English" doesn't necessarily mean perfectly idiomatic and grammatical American College English, but clear and persuasive when the reader is fluent in (American, College, Middle/Upper class, Standard) English.

The nice thing is written English is much easier for "tech people" to learn; the best training is reading lots of well-written English, and you need to do that to participate in the technology and startup world anyway. The keys are: 1) having good source material (there's a tipping point, like some sizable non-US English communities -- which is why Singlish is a thing) 2) actually caring.
You should see the work he did on finding the guys behind the Target breach. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/whos-selling-credit-cards...
I'd love to be addressed as Wing Commander by ecommerce sites.
> Suppose that it's significantly greater than predicted? Are you willing to bet your future happiness, and the health and wealth of the rest of humanity, that it isn't?

Yes. Of course I am. We make those sorts of bets constantly, because Pascal's Wager doesn't work. We can't not make those sorts of bets.

When somebody says "the end of the world is nigh!" it is almost always worth waiting a bit to see if in fact the thing they're worrying about is actually a problem. Hindcasting is nice and all but the real test is: Does the warming trend actually continue as predicted and if so, once it does get warmer, do we actually see negative effects from it that significantly outweigh all the likely positive effects of warming?
I agree with you.

Having sent multiple abuse complaints to CloudFlare regarding booters, I have found them difficult to work with. As we've established, they will not censor anything; instead, if they determine your complaint to have some level of validity, they will send you to the actual host.

In one instance, the booter site had no information on registration or what was offered, so I gave them the hackforums thread where the service is being sold. I realize this is basically hearsay and not sufficient evidence to actually shut a site down, but remember that they won't shut a site down in any case. They did not consider this acceptable enough to release information about the host. They wanted me to register an account there and provide it to them for verification. Luckily, I could register without actually paying anything, providing me a nice UI with a big "launch attack" button, and this was sufficient for them.

More recently, they will not even release the site's IP address. All they will do is tell you to email the abuse department of [host] and ask the abuse department to contact them for details. This is ridiculous.

CloudFlare purports to be against DDoS attacks, yet has no problem providing service to admitted DDoS attack services. In other words, CloudFlare is a racketeering operation. They create the problem, indirectly, and offer services to solve it. (I realize they offer a free tier, but their advanced mitigation features are only available on paid tiers.)
What? By pushing back against a customer who wishes to be addressed as Mrs, you are invalidating their own sense of identity under the guise of doing them a favor. It's paternalistic and infantilizing.

EDIT: Oh wait, "customer" here may mean "client", as wilg pointed out, ie. the person asking for the form to be built, not the person filling it out. That is likely the source of this misunderstanding. I still don't see the harm in providing both Ms. and Mrs./Miss -- some surely prefer Mrs. and there is no shame in deciding you prefer "Ms."
What's bad about "command-not-found"? Surely, it is more useful than sl.
You could just as easily argue against using salutations at all; the stance taken in the article could arbitrarily be taken from a number of different stances each with arguably similar weights.

I don't think it's right to force your own opinion on people when you can just as easily give a blank field and let them put whatever they want, including nothing at all.
They're fantastic. I got (selfishly) really sad when Mr Banks died as it meant he'd have no more fantastic stories to tell.
I think it is more about formality rather than gender. Mr. vs. Ms. is because the English words we use for that level of formality are different based on gender.

I think it similar to how students are told to address their teachers as Mr. X or Ms. Y, rather than by their first names.
> "populations will grow far above reasonable levels"

This theory was considered state of the art in 1798 (when Malthus proposed it) and refuted by 1838 (when Verhulst came up with a better model, which fits actual population data much better).

Populations do occasionally grow "far above reasonable levels" and then crash, but this requires pretty extreme circumstances. The best example I can think of is the Kaibab Deer population -- various human decisions (killing off predators, changes to hunting policies, changes to livestock grazing policies) caused the deer population to explode over the course of 20 years, and the deer population crashed a few years later as it overshot what the environment could sustain and caused substantial damage. That population curve is more or less A-shaped, with a steep climb and steep dropoff.

Populations in general don't behave that way. Most populations of most organisms we know of have an S-shaped curve, with a steep growth phase and then a leveling out phase that involves very little "overshoot" and very little "catastrophic resolution". (Human population looks to be following exactly such a trajectory, and is on course to level off somewhere in the 9-12 billion range.)
That was interesting? You expected him to shine a light on their "icky problem"? Every community has their "icky problem" that they do not like to talk about in mixed company, if at all. The CCLA is Canonical's icky problem.
Okay, thanks for clarifying. I myself lean towards the free market side of this example, and don't necessarily agree with the idea that exploitation is taking advantage of another's lack of options.

Take the dictator's game. The flaw with your model is that it's not iterated. A more realistic dictator's game would be iterated (repeated). In which case over time a poor party can force the rich party to give it a higher share.
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You ever thought that everyone on HN might not be American or speak english as a first language? Its a comment on an internet forum, there is no need for the active grammar schooling. Your trivial, holier-than-thou, grammer nazi bullshit actively discourage other posters who may not speak english fluently from posting. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233681
I think you're right about "Dr." but you're kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

You can make that same point while recognizing that probably the author wasn't really trying to place doctors on a pedestal.
Last century perhaps. There is nowhere near as much social shaming for women with children born out of wedlock in current Western society. It would be a dubious act, morally and statistically, to predict the likelihood of maternity leave based on an honorific.
And a non-PDF resource:

http://www.universetoday.com/100177/the-mars-spacecraft-that...

You know, that's the first story I've heard of the Atlas "balloon tank" being a problem. The tank skin was less than 0.5mm thick, and the whole thing was held up by internal pressure. 5 PSI minimum, all the time. They were quite strong if you didn't screw up--but something will always screw up eventually, I guess. Apparently at least one other launch vehicle was lost to under-pressurization, an Atlas-Agena, but it was during testing and only had a dummy payload.

New Atlas V (which isn't much related to the old Atlas) is self supporting, so this isn't a problem there. But the Centaur upper stage, which is widely used for planetary work and GEO insertion, is still a balloon tank, though I don't know of any mishaps with it.

The old Atlas was a weird bird in other ways, too. It had "1 and one half" stages, because they didn't know if you could start a rocket engine in space. It had two vernier engines that ran the whole time. And they invented WD-40 so they could slather the whole thing in anti-corrosive, even though it was stainless steel, because the skin was too thin to allow any hint of corrosion.

Closing the valves on a fueled and deflating Atlas indeed sounds like conspicuous bravery to me. The era of "steely-eyed missile men" indeed.
My father was addressed as "Maj. Welch" whenever he could get away with it.
Gruber's decision to include html in the markdown "spec" has always perplexed me.
We actually do have more than 3000 robots spread across the world's ocean measuring temperature. These robots have clever mechanisms to change their own density so that they can move from shallow depth to deep depth (up to 2000 m).

Conceived in 1999, this program has been running for more than 10 years now and we do have precise measurements of the energy in the ocean. We also do have less precise measurements before the program.

Sure, it would be better if we had more robots and more observation history, but we do have enough data to do the analysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ocean_Database_Project
The climate change thing is almost a red herring vis a vis fossil fuels.

The supply of fossil fuels is absolutely limited. We don't know where these limits are exactly. But what we do know is that if we have no alternatives, our entire civilization will collapse when we run out of them. Billions of people will die. Centuries of learning will be forgotten. A new dark age will result.

Now that is "prosperity-destroying."

This is reason #1 to do everything we can to move beyond fossil fuels. Climate change may be reason #2, or maybe reason #3 after geopolitical concerns. But even if there is no manmade climate change at all, we must do everything we can to develop alternatives to fossil fuels now while we still have the time and energy to do so. The danger of collapse due to fossil fuel depletion is so great that I'm not even sure if climate change ranks.

So why are we still even arguing about this?
People with doctorates generally want you to know they have a doctorate. I personally find it unnecessary, though I do see why somebody would want to be addressed as such.
>If you make a new form, limit salutations to Dr., Mr., Ms.

No. You let people decide how they'd like to be addressed and leave your amateur social engineering at home.
Then there is Rev., Hon. and so on.
Seriously, is this still a thing in the Anglo-Saxon world? Being male, I was never aware of that, although I must have filled in hundreds of English language forms.

In the Netherlands, this kind of thing has been unacceptable for decades. The only reason why someone would put that in a form is as a deliberate joke.
Actually a lifestyle company is pretty much the term for any business that makes a great living for the owners and employees, but never results in significant profit for investors.

Investors won't touch a company with a 10 foot pole if they get a whiff of lifestyle corporation because they'll never get their investment back. But this doesn't make it a bad company, despite what you read around here on HN. In reality a lifestyle company can be just about the greatest, most satisfying and financially rewarding job that you can have. You just won't get any investor telling you that because there's nothing there for them.
But freegeoip's limit of 10,000 requests per hour is better than ipinfo's $200/mo plan (6,667/hr). Plus there are no limits if you run freegeoip on your own server.
And here's what CloudFlare isn't telling you: many DDoS attacks are made possible thanks to their service, openly providing service (they would dispute my use of the word "hosting") to booters.

This is called racketeering. Create the problem indirectly and offer protection. Sound familiar?
so the txid's which are subject to transaction malleability?
Firstly, I said it was in invention. It's an argument that has the benefit of never having to provide any sort of evidence to back it up.

But since I'm forced to attack the strawman: let me put it another way: if humans are responsible for less warming than 100%, then we're going to have to do more to mitigate our effects, because we have to mitigate more human behaviour for the same outcome.

Until we're making meaningful changes - yet to happen - it's utterly irrelevant if we've caused 50%, or 100%.
There should simply be a free-form field for "How do you want to be addressed?" (e.g. "Mrs. Smith", "Dr. James", "Jack", "Woof Woof", whatever) alongside any field for an "official" name.
Counterexample: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483053

Replace Drew's intentional lack of capitalization with this "your/you're swap," and you've got the same situation.

It seems like people are just prejudiced, and are so prejudiced that they feel justified in calling people out on a forum under the guise of "helping" them.

Yes, grammar is powerful, but this isn't a situation where it matters. They were expressing empathy. They weren't writing a press release. And we can't seem to find it in ourselves to avoid bikeshedding this thread.
My guess is that Dr. is just the most popular/most insisted upon among salutations that are based on profession/education and so the others get neglected sometimes. (I doubt most people know what the full list of salutations should be.)
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There's a simple, free, realtime method (doesn't require me to "retrieve" anything, updates all computers instantly). In Linux you can just use some cloud syncing service (Dropbox in this example) and do the following:

$ cd ~/.config
$ mv sublime-text-3 ~/Dropbox
$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/sublime-text-3

Then on any other computers you want synced just symlink the same directory. Voila!
This is a nice idea but the claim that it is "not very hard to do" is incorrect. For starters there's the confusion factor which may trigger some support requests. That's more work. Moreover it may result in some consternation among customers who actually do desire the traditional salutation. That's a different kind of difficult, going against your customer.

Again, not saying it's wrong, just saying it's not easy. There's maybe even a point in there about programmer tendencies to underestimate the full impact of small code changes...
I just want to say you're not alone in being jaded and disillusioned about "Silicon Valley at large". There are a lot of things about it that are fucked up and you should absolutely blaze your own trail or look elsewhere if it doesn't sit right with you. There are a lot of people in tech who deliberately steer clear and they're not hanging out on HN either. For some reason I'm still stuck on this site though.
>"If your customer wants Mrs. & Miss, push back. Up to you to decide how far and how hard, but make an effort.*

You just lost a customer.
I had been grasping for a word for this phenomenon for so long. Thank you.
I was taught that Mz (as in Mizz) is a marriage neutral form. Of course, if someone refers to themselves as Mrs. (like most school teachers), I'd go with that, but otherwise I like Mz.
Please learn you're vs your, it makes you look dumb.
Of course he's looking at one small set of data: temperature measurements. Consider the wide range of physical and biological changes occurring. Drunken forests. Polar ice melt. Bird migration changes (earlier spring and later fall, as well as some novel over-wintering). Changes in animal and plant ranges (including massive pest increases in some areas). Dying coral reefs. Increased extreme weather events (ask the insurance industry about their take on that). Screw the models. The data is pretty clear.
95% of climate models are not wrong.
Sadly, it would appear Beverlin died just a few weeks after the publication of that article.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/floridatoday/obituary.aspx?...

http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/dignitymemorial/guestbook.as...
I've never understood why people with MDs or PhDs

It's a relic of professional address. In Germany, an engineer may still be addressed as "Herr Ingenieur", or a professor as "Frau Professorin" (I'm a little rusty since the last orthography). Attorneys in the US may be addressed as "Esquire". Public officeholders and members of the military are often referred to with title or rank.
Exactly the same problem for me. I'm getting:

"Sublimall need 7zip to archive and encrypt your configuration.
Install it."
I don't believe it's "master-slave" in the way you're thinking. Elasticsearch shards its indexes among all available nodes, storing replicas of each shard on separate nodes when possible. This ensures that the entire cluster is available as long as at least one replica of a shard is still online. In fact, if configured properly, it has better availability than consistency since by default it only flushes its oplog to the Lucene index segments every second (though writes aren't considered committed until they reach a quorum of nodes, so consistency is fairly good in practice as well).
You say you're concerned about perception and trying to help him. Honestly, do you think people perceive someone who makes a typo worse or the person who is repeatedly correcting them on an internet forum worse?
your/you're isn't unclear (usually).

"how is babby formed" type stuff is what is incomprehensible.
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Nobody does. The "full list" is effectively unknowable. A truly full list would include myriad words from every language for every culture, military, religion, and organization in the known universe (and would be ever-changing). This is just another part of the whole "What is a real name?" thing.