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there's nothing there that refutes the blog

I understand that you don't agree that what I posted refutes the blog, but I'm not trying to convince you, and I'm not going to rehash the argument here. I'm just linking to that discussion for the record, so others reading this thread will understand that your claims and the blog's claims about black holes are not undisputed.

(not my argument).

You may not have written the blog post, but you are claiming it's correct, so it is "your" argument in the only sense that matters here. If you're not willing to own the argument when it's challenged, then you shouldn't be linking to it.

If there's a flaw it should be a sentence or two of logic, not multiple paragraphs that summarize as "it's not that simple"

That's not the summary of what I said. The summary of what I said is this: the blog post's claims about what the theory of relativity actually says are not correct. So the blog post is not refuting the actual theory of relativity; it's refuting a straw man version of the theory that the blog post's author has constructed in his own head.

Taylor and Wheeler agree there

Agree with what? That there can be an inertial frame that falls through the horizon? Yes, of course. But that does not mean Taylor and Wheeler agree with the blog post's claims about black holes. The fact that there can be an inertial frame that falls through the horizon does not mean the blog post's claims about the details of how such frames work are correct. I went into detail about what's wrong with them in the thread I linked to.
>I would love to read a first-hand account.

It would be better to have the results of a survey done on a random sample of employees. Unfortunately, in journalism, we only get sensationalized and often completely unsubstantiated versions of single accounts. In this case, instead of an actual account, we merely have innuendo that could be one.
Really? It sounded pretty gross to me:

"I just don't take these people seriously anymore. It seems like a uniquely north american woman phenomenon."
interesting, is there a way to track notices sent to the copyright office? is this a common way to file for infringing content? I thought the DMCA required you to contact the platform directly?
People don't feel inflation the way that the CPI states it. The CPI's "basket of goods" is full of things that nobody cares about (like CD-ROMs, VCRs), and it is supposed to apply to the whole country, despite how diverse expenditure types can be (For example, I spend < $200/mo on transportation, but $2500/mo on rent, whereas when I lived in Cleveland it was nearly the opposite).
Good initiative but it lacks severely. First of all you will face all sorts of intellectual property problems. Then, you will have to deal with adoption. Imgur users are often linking to the HTML page of an image because Imgur is so clean and unobtrusive AND because it has extra features.

Why would people link to your HTML page instead of directly to the image? There are no comments, voting systems or even view counts, just the idea that someone is getting money might be disturbing to some.

Then, you have anonymity and ease of use. Unless your product is so good and unique, which it isn't right now, why would I register? The only thing is that I am getting some dollar cents if my content goes viral. I first have to register et cetera. Can I crop my image? Rotate it? Remove EXIF data?

I hope you manage, but I doubt it.
The weird caveat here is that you cannot use Amazon Instant Video on any Google-related devices. So you can stream prime on your iOS device or Kindle, but if you have an Android or Chromecast you're out of luck.
The whole galaxy seems to be caught in the spiral of a super massive blackhole, and it's just a matter of time before everything falls into it

That's not necessarily true. From far away, a black hole is just like any other object with the same mass; there's no extra ingredient to a black hole's gravity that makes things more likely to fall into it from far away.
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1. I subscribed to Netflix when I noticed it on the PS3 menu; I noticed it before Amazon.

2. Netflix works on my Apple TV as well as the PS3.

3. Both Netflix and Amazon have a small amount of content that the other doesn't.

I'm not at a point in my life where optimizing the amount of money I pay for content seems like a good use of my time. If I had to choose one or the other, I'd choose Amazon.
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You're assuming that Amazon would be able to profitably offer a meaningfully cheaper "shipping-only" Prime service. I doubt it. Shipping is expensive, and the kind of people who would be inclined to subscribe to that service are likely to be the ones who make heavy use of the free shipping.

If $99 isn't worth the shipping options you get from Prime, and you aren't interested in the video service, there's always the option of not using Prime and paying for shipping as you use it.
> "Women (and others) do not feel unsafe in their work environment" is reasonably quantifiable, and someday, achievable. 'Merit' is not.

Agreed, but... isn't the 'trying' that counts in terms of the latter? I just don't see the problem in holding up "meritocracy" as something to strive for. I don't think any of us lives in a perfect democracy either, but we are still proud of trying, and think that it's the best way to run things, even if we're painfully aware of the shortcomings.
Source here: https://github.com/wyager/micromechboard
Very nice, but any photos with models are not usable without model clearance.
I don't shop at enough Amazon to make prime shipping economically beneficial to me. In most cases free ground shipping is alright, and occasionally paying for 2 day shipping works out to be cheaper than $100 per year.

I bought prime subscription anyway; not for shipping but for Amazon Instant Video. I won't be renewing it because Amazon Instant Video has been disappointing so far. There isn't enough content on Amazon Prime. Worse part, their Xbox app plays video in 360p resolution.

I had similar experience with Netflix as well. Even after paying for several on-demand Video services, I have to use Torrents. Torrents offer the most convenience, it has the largest content library, best video quality and no stupid DRM & restrictions.
Yes, my app, TEXT BOMB was removed. During its short time online, we were selling a copy every 6 minutes. That lasted for about 4 days. It was hard to get specific information as to why it was removed. Google pointed us to TOS several times.

We were sad it was removed and Google was not very specific nor responsive to my inquiries. But in truth we knew why it did not last. TEXT BOMB was simply too awesome, too powerful and too annoying to last. It would send up to 1 million SMS messages to one or multiple targets at a preset time. An option called Super Annoy Mode allowed the texts to be spaced out using a random interval with a settable max delay. It was devious. It was dangerous.

Here's one of the ads I made for it: http://youtu.be/6a0QzS0PqBY

RIP TEXT BOMB.

In my experience, Google had good reason. If you feel they do not, keep fighting. Good luck.
You asked. I answered.

Arguing that, as the author of your comment, you are more capable of judging how inflammatory it is than the comment's readers is a logical fallacy. How inflammatory something is would be entirely dependent on how it is received by its audience.

Furthermore, responding to my questions by patronisingly telling me to "use my imagination" conveniently avoids those questions. Hint: DBAD ;)
No, let's cherrypick the easiest, most irrelevant claims so we can refute them. We're too busy and important to face the troubling and difficult issues that arise when women step out of place. We need to stay above that sort of drama, because we're professionals.

Besides, it's a proven fact that tech is a meritocracy.
I happened to be moving a blog and reposted the new urls to a few things that had previously been posted here, thinking a few folks might be interested. To my shock, they were better received than the first time around, it got genuinely discussed and I made the front page three times. So I stuck around and tested the waters and it seems to be a different environment than the one I left.

I didn't really want to leave, so I am glad to feel more comfortable at the moment than I did previously. HN doesn't really have any competition. One reason I am not real keen on naming names, linking to public assholish personal attacks, etc is because I don't think that furthers any of my own goals. I would like to be able to participate productively here -- because, frankly, this is where the money and the power is for some of the things I want to accomplish. I have no desire to be relegated to a pink collar ghetto (btdt). I think most of the women who air a lot of dirty laundry are probably doing themselves more harm than good. But when I try to talk about things I think are very basic concepts in that regard, I get accused of "victim blaming" and crap like that. So I say relatively little compared to what I think about such things.
While we are talking about Amazon Prime - there still seems to be a round about way to get Prime at the old yearly rate of $79 - even if you are a currently active Prime member. See this for details - http://www.reddit.com/r/deals/comments/20ckxa/you_can_lock_i...
After a decade there's a couple extra inches of wood and leaf matter sitting on the ground. I've always wondered what our planet looked like in the millions of years between the evolution of trees, and the evolution of the first fungus that could break down cellulose. With nowhere to go, those dead forests eventually fossilized and became coal deposits -- but what was it like to actually be there when those forests were growing. How thick did the dead wood stack up? How did anything grow after the first few generations of trees covered the ground in so much dead carbon?
Wow, thanks I had no idea. That's super useful.
I really couldn't disagree with this post any more. While I think he raises several points that are applicable to him, none apply to me.

I have also been a prime subscriber since 2005 and it has paid for itself many times over in shipping costs alone. I have had bunk beds, computers, televisions all shipped second day for free. Rarely have I had issues, I would continue to pay for the service even if it was twice what it is now.

And I do use the streaming service quite regularly. I have not had cable for quite some time so I use streaming services for close to 50% of my at home entertainment. Of that, I think the amazon library is one of the better available.

At any rate, I have been and will hopefully continue to be a happy prime subscriber for at least another year.
If she feels like people are treating her as if she's not good at her job because she's a woman when the reality is that she's just not good at her job, then yes, that is relevant. Not every time a woman gets passed over for a promotion is sexism, and all we've heard is one, obviously biased, detail-free version of the "story."
A large number of apps require Google Services be installed and won't work with bare AOSP anymore. Location services is part of Google Services now, so apps that require it need GS. Every app with in-app purchasing won't work without Google services, so you can forget about most games working on AOSP.

There isn't one Android anymore. There's the base pure open source Android, aka AOSP. There's Android with Google services, which supports things like the Play Store, in-app purchases, location services, etc. There's Amazon's Android fork which has some of their own APIs inserted for in-app purchases and location, but Play Store, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc are unavailable for it. Now there's Nokia's new Android fork which will have its own set of APIs for location, in-app purchases, etc.
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Linux is younger than I am. GNU is two years older than I am. Anyone making smart statements about the long-term prospects of a spontaneously organizing tidal wave erupting from a vacuum needs to take a step back, stop talking, and find something worth working on to them personally.

Web is mostly a distraction for proponents of FOSS. Web developers consume the foundation of FOSS and, without moving past web development, cannot contribute to that foundation. I don't honestly look to domination of web software components as a source of open source growth or an indicator of open source health. Web developers are users and FOSS is powered by developers.

Put more stock in Valve and Crytek's long-term influence on developers using Linux to game on. They subsequently can learn to program Linux, and that's way more influential than 99% of the garbage out there about web being some egalitarian magic kingdom where open source and individuals can thrive, so there. Gaming is one of the last great bastions of totally proprietary software platforms where users with the natural propensity to do so do not eventually become developers.
True. But when money and the mob mentality is involved, being upfront will protect you.
Would one option be to allow users to specify their Adense user ID on registration? That way, they'd be paid directly, and the page content would be their issue. I'm not sure what the Adsense ToS would have to say about this, mind you...
Great! I'm now tempted to build something similar but perhaps with Bluetooth instead.

Does the fact that the keys aren't staggered make it significantly better or worse to type on?
Keep in mind that the level of hype often doesn't correspond to the actual amount of usage a technology experiences.

Yes, Ruby on Rails has been widely and frequently publicized. Yes, there are some people who have a semi-religious devotion to Ruby on Rails, and are quite vocal about it. Yes, a number of books have been written about it. Yes, training is available for it.

But in reality, we really don't see it used all that much, at least compared to PHP, Java, and ASP.NET. The numbers given in that graphic may not be exact, but I wouldn't be so quick to rule them out, either.
What does a pervasive subculture with a long history have to do with intelligence and planning/executing?

Everything. The subculture is a mechanism by which an ethic of existence (or survival in this case) is propagated. Techniques, warning signs, all of these things. In this case, it is indeed unique to these people in that the techniques may only be useful when you are on the lam.

In fact, the uniqueness of this situation seems to be exactly what you are trying to handwave away as "it's own culture distinct," but you are ignoring the word itself: subculture exists not separate from other cultures, but as a part of them, and as a part of larger ones, such as the legal system. The legal system itself has a multitude of cultures: correctional officers have an interdependency with the judiciary, but you wouldn't say that they operate by the same terms. Judges and court reporters don't usually go to the same parties, and thus the culture of incarceration and evasion of the law also operate on their own terms and by the terms of the legal system at large. As a case in point, that is.
No they do not imply wrong doing. There are a lot of good reasons why cross citation occurs. Having an alternate score gives you another sense of what kind of work this person is doing. You have to remember - using cross citation to inflate rankings have a social cost as well. It prevents other more promising research from gaining the right attention.
typically 4-10W (home use)
For the workplace, I assumed "meritocracy" just means trying to hire the best people, which seems the most common strategy? What else should hiring decisions be based upon?

That measurements of merit are flawed is another problem. Does that mean you should never try to determine anybodies skills? What else besides completely random hiring would be possible?
Alternatively, it could be that people do like full service enough to pay for this, but act irrationally at the pump, not the ballot box. I.e. people undervalue their own comfort and do things themselves because the idea of paying more seems so objectionable.

This has occurred to me with airlines as well - we relentlessly optimise for cheap flights, and then complain that we're crammed in to tiny seats while flight attendants hawk duty free goods to us. Maybe we'd actually be happier if the cheapest flights were actually 50% more expensive and nicer, even though that's not what we choose.
Competing interests. But if you have a non-shitty router AirPlay works fine and the quality is as good as it would be otherwise streaming from Amazon.
"Still, shouldn't there be a round in there too?"

I don't think so, since that particular code was just meant to emulate integer overflows (in contrast to the limited decimal precision of integers). If you were to emulate the precision as well, it would likely need an additional round around everything indeed, i.e. something like round(value - 2.0 * round(0.5 * value * (255.0/256.0)) * 256.0).

If anything, this discussion shows that it's getting annoyingly complex to find the correct formula though, especially if all corner cases are supposed to be handled correctly. Oh right, and the real fun begins when you try to emulate 24 bit integers, for which the proposed method doesn't work at all because floats only have 23 bits of mantissa :)

Chances are there are simpler ways to emulate this stuff, I really don't know. Would be interesting to hear from GPU driver developers how integers are emulated within the driver via floats if hardware does not support integers :)
You are barking up the wrong tree. I am mostly commenting on the death threats and rape threats and general hostility. I routinely advocate that women take responsibility for their half of the equation, but in light of how ugly it apparently got, your remark is just part of creating a hostile atmosphere for women.

Here is something I wrote that made the front page not terribly long ago (like February, I think): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203401 I am a woman and I get accused all the time of victim blaming for talking about what women can and should do differently if they really want things to change, but, seriously, your remark just sounds really misogynistic and ugly to me.
Key takeaway:

"The most logical explanation is that Digital Ocean is a spam-sender's and attacker's playgroup. It is cheap and droplets can be used to immediately send out mail. Bad actors no doubt constantly generate new accounts and rent servers for their nefarious purposes, which leads Digital Ocean IP addresses to become increasingly polluted and worthless for any use involving email."

This is exactly correct, people set up phishing sites, botnet C&C servers, spam senders, web scrapers, torrent seeders, etc. I regularly ban anywhere from 5 to 50 Digital Ocean IPs every day trying to various evil things (from click fraud to dark hat SEO). What is unclear is what, if any, motivation Digital Ocean has for preventing this. Presumably they are getting paid for the droplet time. Is it too far a stretch to compare it to opening a shop in a sleezy crime-ridden neighborhood because the 'rent was cheap' and then complain that nobody comes to your shop? Some providers spend time and resources policing that stuff, and that costs them money, which is reflected in their hosting costs. Others don't spend any money on that and it too is reflected in their hosting costs :-).

Now not to be a complete downer here, you can buy your own IP addresses from ARIN and get them routed to your droplet. The world will be easier for you. But it is going to increase the cost of doing business.
To backtrack a little on the last point, there are plenty of things in the world where the right thing to do is to fight against it- racism, ethnic cleansing, etc. But I just fundamentally, axiomatically do not see anything related to how software is written and distributed as being one of those things. Part of the reason this topic always leads to flamewars is that the core, fundamental disagreement ("is using and/or distributing proprietary software unethical or immoral?") always comes down to the debaters having different gut feelings about the issue that cannot be logically determined. It's similar to the abortion debate in that respect- someone who is convinced that all abortion is murder is not ever going to be convinced otherwise, because the topic descends into different people's axioms about morality that cannot be further decomposed into statements that can be logically debated.
A very puzzling point of view. She claims to have been harassed all along at GitHub while she was promoting it. This goes to show the limitations of the twitter platform for serious discussion. I'm sure she'd have a more logical case to make in >140 characters. Twitter is the easiest platform to vent on, and that is precisely why it should be avoided in such circumstances.

"I regret defending GitHub's culture to feminists for the last two years. I'm sorry to everyone I've hurt in doing so."

"I've been harassed by 'leadership' at GitHub for two years. And I am the first developer to quit."

Worse than having a serious discussion on twitter, though, is tweeting twitter as a source of breaking news.
Well, he was the first employee of Tumblr and definitely instrumental in its success and implementation (the PHP framework used is mostly his own creation).
> One of these tenets is, "make the implementation as simple and as correct as possible; it is better for an implementation to be simple than to be correct."

Having been a Unix admin since long before Linux existed, I find this statement to be complete bullshit.
don't participate in rumors. avoiding a workplace with a rumor might be logical but that doesn't make it right.
Why is that unsatisfying? And why is it just "technically" open source, is it not open source in spirit as well?
OK, as a minority myself -- maybe not in tech today, but growing up in a region that was 99% white and not anywhere near Silicon Valley -- this really irritates me:

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444662613020913665

"The shitty thing about all of this is that by being open and honest about my experience I'm devaluing stock options of people I care about."

So Horvath is alleging what most definitely sounds like civil-court level of damages, if not criminal, but she won't provide details or file a lawsuit as a whistelblower because she fears for her friends' financial profit?

How the hell does that even make sense? What amount of IPO profit is worth the level of systematic oppression and discrimination that she is alleging here? And what kind of friends -- the ones privileged enough to earn a spot in Github's ranks and could easily get a job at a less purportedly evil company -- would be unsympathetic toward Horvath calling out her abusers, given the level of harassment and cruelty they have inflicted upon her, as she tells in her tweets?

I hate to pull the "I'm a minority card" too, but I am someone who can completely believe that a situation like Horvath's could exist "under the radar" and yet cause lasting harm to equality in society...it's a common fallacy to think that racism/sexism only exists when physical violence and criminal malfeasance (of the media frenzy kind) occur.

And so I'm equally frustrated that she, out of concern for her friends' bank accounts, will not do the right and just thing, given that she asserts to have irrefutable evidence and a solid case. And if there are enough good people at Github, as she also asserts, then legal and decisive action will only help Github to become a great company.
Yeah, last time I filled up in NJ one of the attendants was smoking at the pumps. Never been so nervous!
>Does the fact that the keys aren't staggered make it significantly better or worse to type on?

Depends who you ask! Personally, I think it's a bit more comfortable to type on than a staggered layout.

Some people love the matrix layout. Some people are rather put off by it.