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I've decided to start using a throwaway for political discussions...

I would personally approve any comment that discusses a lived experience in concrete terms.

That being said re: tone policing, there is a segment of the social justice crowd on HN that will make inflammatory generalizations about large groups of people. Generally this will take the form of "X happens because of goddamn white cishet men." Inevitably someone will call these comments out and the response will be that it is justified to speak this way about the "oppressor class" and that anyone who "tone polices" these comments is ignoring the "power dynamics" of the situation.

In my opinion these comments do nothing but add fuel to the fire and I will never approve them. They are wrong for the same reasons gross generalizations about minorities are wrong.

And no, I'm not white, but yes, I am a man.
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Wow... just wow...

From the Human Genome Project, to mass indexing and searchable indexes of thousands of species entire genomes, in just two short decades.
Very true. It's easy to look at something someone else has done and say, "not a big deal." You don't see the sweat or the design process.

It's actually a big compliment, too. It signifies the design is conceptually sound and as small as it could be.
There are a bunch of different use cases we have thought about.

Perhaps my favorite is a mirrored workspace. An app like Asana could use the Shared Folder API to create a Dropbox shared folder that mirrors an Asana project. As you add or subtract users, those changes affect both. Similarly files added via the Dropbox folder appear in Asana and files added in Asana are instantly put into your Dropbox. A video conference has similar concepts.

But there are tons more and we'd love to hear ideas from other folks!
You may have never worked in a content industry before, but there are certainly empirical methods you can use to find out if something is more appealing to people along some axes.
As far as I can tell there's zero information on their site regarding who they are and no information about where they might have an office. ...this is my skeptical face.

p.s. Nice rip-off of DigitalOcean -> http://i.imgur.com/WyEggC9.png
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That works fine until you have things like branches and function calls. Most call conventions specify which registers arguments are in, and with what you're proposing each function call needs to know where it is up to in the rotation at the beginning of the call. If the ahrdware looks after it (either through a index register that stores the position of the next write), then it becomes easier; but no one's doing that, and afaik, the mill is the first machine to do anything close. Stack machines are sort of similar, but word differently because they need to remember all values on the stack untill they're popped. The mill just forgets old results and the compiler must make sure they're still available when they're needed later.
Having a foot in the indie game developer community and another in startups, it's fascinating to see the HN comments in response to this post.

The indie game developers care about originality, passion, the sweat and hard months of work, the dedication to the craft. I think the point of Asher's essay is to show how much love and effort went into it, and that they were indeed the first to ship a full, polished game with that concept. That's where their pride and satisfaction comes from.

The startup people care about end user experience, how good the PR is, and ultimately how numbers matter more than everything else.

I don't think there's a wrong or right vision - it's two very different communities.

Indie game devs dream of making amazing games with other talented, inspiring people - and as long as they make enough money to live not too uncomfortably, they're fine. Their biggest dream is to receive an IGF award and see their game on Steam. Maybe make enough money to be able to start a studio with a bunch of their friends, but definitely not to "scale" to EA-size.

Startup people dream of growing their company to Facebook size, making billions of dollars, scaling, and being on Techcrunch.

It's two very different communities, and it's fun to see the two worlds collide.

Addendum: if you feel like this post is vindictive, bitter, etc.- remember: the best way to interpret a view different than yours is to understand that there is a worldview in which those statements are perfectly coherent, logical, and meaningful. Asher, Greg, and all the other people mentioned in this post are successful, highly respected members of the indie game dev community - not a bunch of guys who are angry for whatever silly reason.
The core of Dustin's argument is that Facebook may not have been patient enough; they should have trusted in their beautiful new design and waited long enough for the benefits to bear fruit.

However, it's a cheap argument to make, because the Hard Thing is to decide how many months of crappy numbers are you going to withstand before you admit that your Beautiful New Design in fact isn't any good?

Six months? Two years?

And it's not just revenue you look at. How's overall engagement? Sharing rates? Communication? Discovery?

The article is a shallow snipe; the real issues here are hard, interesting, and unexplored by this piece.
The concept that credit cards are lower risk to consumers than ANYTHING is laughable to me, but I can stop laughing long enough to consider it for BTC. BTC has a lot of consumer risk right now, anything OTHER than BTC is better than CC's though.
But is it any faster at doing so than any of the competition?

Specifically, are there any real benefits to the "parallel" aspect of this?
So, a lot of people's first introduction to all of this was the comment Sam made in his article "What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far" about how "we're working on something to improve the quality of Hacker News comments". It is thereby not surprising that people are trying to analyze whether this feature will help that specific issue ;P.

FWIW, I think that this is a different problem than the "you are an idiot" problem: I think a lot of the threads that people are finding issue with when it comes to attitudes towards under-represented groups are not (at least entirely) filled with this "explicit type" of negative comment: it is instead the more insidious, implicit type being stared at.

Regardless, I don't see why the endorsement system will somehow work against either of these problems when the voting mechanism hasn't: the comments that start with "you are an idiot, don't you realize that" are currently getting upvotes, so why would we presume they won't also get endorsements? Are high-karma users voting differently?
A bit bold and a bit direct, but I like it. I wish more (and higher profile) companies would make statements like this.
I dont think mobile games are entirely indicative of what the gaming industry is. The rampant cloning and wild west nature is kind of a characteristic unique to mobile. Cloning and stuff still happens in other gaming mediums, but it has never seemed to be as bad as it is on mobile.
I probably would have purchased Threes if it weren't for the clones. Loved the process documentation. All I can say is keep up the good work. Fuck the haters.
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jquery compatibility is huge, awesome!

I am a new developer. I've used meteor for a couple toy projects, and found it really easy to get started. past the basics however, I found it really hard to get answers. I'm currently trying to write a simple backbone + node app to get my head around all the things meteor does automagically.

Are there any plans for learning resources coming from the meteor team?
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How many contracts do you have signed? How many customers are you contacting and what feedback are you getting? There would be ways to evaluate progress.
> I wonder why a game which is basically a 4x4 grid doesn't work on every single version of iOS. 1024 works just fine.

It's pretty much an effort vs. payoff thing; the dev environment get nicer each iteration, and iOS < 6 is in a fractional minority.
How do you get ILP from this? Seems like it would make scheduling much more difficult because you now need to make sure that that the results you need for each instruction are in the order in the belt you need, and you have to be able to execute any order of instruction types. The mill can run fast partly because and instruction can use any result on the belt, and similar instructions are grouped together making decode simpler (from memory, they have two separate decoders and each instruction has all say arith instructions grouped and decoded by one decode, and all the others decoded by the other).

Basically, I don't see how you can use what you suggest to do, in one instruction:

[ add positions 7 and 5 | multiply positions 7 and 2 | call f on 4 and 5 | branch to foo if position 3 was LT else bar ]

ending up with the belt

[ [7]+[5], [7]*[2], f([4],[5]) ... ]

or whatever you like. All you need to do to schedule the mill is to perform as many operations in parallel as the hardware can do, and then find out where their results would be placed to create the next instruction.
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You're affirming the consequent.
Excellent! I have wanted this for a long time.
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Well "mystery mean navigation" refers to something specifically where there's little chance of understanding what the icons refer to without rolling over them, much like "mystery meat" in your fridge that you can't remember what it is without opening the tupperware.
"We only optimize. We do what goes up." Deciding what you want to facilitate going up comes down to governance. If you want to give the user a shittier experience in order to earn more profits, then you can do that. But you leave yourself open to someone providing the better experience and losing them altogether.
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Thanks, I think your second answers covers my use cases. Let me explain them:

Currently, file's metadata has no ownership information. If I see it in my files or my deltas, it could be because either I created or somebody else created them in a shared folder or somebody else shared a folder with me and i accepted.

In other words, if user X adds a file to a shared a folder with user Y, when User Y requests for deltas from the API, I cant tell if the User Y is the creater of these files.

It looks like Id be able navigate the revision to figure out who created the file. or who placed it in the shared folder, so this api is certainly a welcome addition
I imagine that is quite a huge feat! Here's a questions for the HN gurus though: how much of a browsers code deals with errors, compatibility, and legacy?? I imagine A LOT.
I agree that it's probably not that black and white but a comparison with heart disease isn't a fair one.

The grandparent post does make a point. If such a large proportion of the population has a 'condition' is it really a condition or perhaps just how we (as a species) are? Especially in the case of something that's psychiatric/psychological.

For example, I've heard estimates that around 10% of the population is homosexual and for many years people wanted to 'fix' them. Around 10%-12% of people are left-handed and (I believe) that historically this was also something that people tried to 'fix'. I doubt many of us think twice about these anymore.

To a sibling comment that suggested what if 1 in 5 boys were born deaf, I'd say that the world would be a vastly different place. So different that we may not even entertain such a question. If, instead, 1/5th of boys were beginning to be born deaf, there would be a medical emergency. Unfortunately, in the case of things like ADHD it's difficult to know if we've always been this way or if there's really been a change.
Yes, unless there was evidence of a contemporary cause, in which case I'd investigate it.

Have boys changed, or has society?
I'm skeptical of general and unscientific labels like "processed". What does that even mean? We as humans can understand it, yes, but it's too high-level a descriptor to be something our bodies differentiate on.
The way I see it is that he has convincingly portrayed staged photographs of real show cars. In other words it looks like somebody took some nice cars and cleaned them up really nice to be photographed.

Weathering definitely is a great way to add to the realism though. Adam Savage (mythbusters guy) has some great videos on Tested of using various weathering techniques to make props look incredibly convincing: http://www.tested.com/art/makers/453823-one-day-builds-adam-...
Next can we talk about SSRI's? My little brother was prescribed Paxil as an adolescent. Now he's in prison for murder. Now Paxil is not allowed to be prescribed for adolescents and children but my brother will die in prison. He behaved exactly how kids prescribed this medicine behave, in a murderous rage.
Using icons over text gets you some nice wins when it comes to i18n as well. I.e. you're fitting an icon, not variable width text.
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Damned by faint praise - when a review says 'more studies are needed', they mean 'you haven't proved a damn thing yet'.

That's essentially the default conclusion of a review study, lack of good evidence means any claim at all is bogus. CLA could be a stone cold killer, or it could be Lazarus juice, but there's no way to tell from the current state of affairs.

As such, the article is incorrect when it says CLA does X, where X is anything.
Aside from, you know, those that do. Like the Inuit. According sourced material via Wikipedia, due to the complete and utter lack of any formal agriculture, "[t]raditional Inuit diets derive approximately 50% of their calories from fat, 30-35% from protein and 15-20% of their calories from carbohydrates, largely in the form of glycogen from the raw meat they consumed." Tubers, berries, seaweed and the like make up very little of their diet.

From the intro on Wikipedia:
According to Edmund Searles in his article "Food and the Making of Modern Inuit Identities," they consume this type of diet because a mostly meat diet is "effective in keeping the body warm, making the body strong, keeping the body fit, and even making that body healthy".
It amazes me that legal costs aren't going to be definitely paid here. That alone makes this system almost impossible to appeal, pro-bono lawyers aren't likely to work on this issue after the first one or two high profile cases if there isn't a payout.
"As explained in Alsup's opinion, the whole dispute stemmed from an errant check placed on a form filled out by FBI agent Kevin Kelly"
This sounds very similar to what happened in the movie Brazil, where an errant fly resulted in the incarceration and death during interrogation of Mr. Archibald Buttle instead of the suspected "terrorist", Archibald Tuttle. Albeit the movie was an highly exaggerated and over-the-top evil bureaucracy, it's a disturbing parallel.
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> ADHD is very treatable, but untreated, it can easily lead to other comorbidities that are much more difficult to treat (such as depression)

This claim needs citation.

The overall point is that the cost of the false positive overweighs the cost of the false negative
There is no valid support for the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness. The reasoning is circular - "if chemicals reduce the symptoms, a chemical imbalance must have been the cause"

Edit: seriously downvotes? This isn't news:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_imbalance
three-quarters of Americans need vision correction, does that make it 'normal'?
Doesn't work on Safari: "Sorry, no compatible source and playback technology were found for this video. Try using another browser like Chrome or download the latest Adobe Flash Player."

Strange, because I do have Flash. Seems to be caused by a JavaScript error which, somewhat ironically, occurs in obfuscated code.
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And nobody is surprised.
I'm not struggling with it at all. I'm an ex C,C++ programmer, i'd do a while not eof read loop.
> Like most diet advice that's still way too simplistic.

It's not. It's minimalistic, it's insufficient, but it is in no way misleading: following this advice is invariably better than not following it. Your criticism doesn't disagree in any way.

Are you sure you replied to the right comment? Ninja edit, maybe?
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> Indeed, the only way to figure out if pending comments will work at all is empirically. The plan is for the moderator to experiment with turning pending comments on for individual threads. If that works...

If this is going to be empirical, then what is the measurement for 'it works' and how quickly do you expect to determine efficacy of the endorsement system?
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I hadn't seen the detailed documentation - thanks so much for the acknowledgments there!

And thanks for correcting me about CCV's support for custom architectures and training -- I'd just assumed that it wasn't supported since it wasn't mentioned in the post, but I guess this was more of a marketing decision as most users are probably just interested in feature extraction/classification from the pretrained net. :) I would argue that GPU support is pretty necessary for training modern network architectures a la Krizhevsky to be remotely practical, though.

I apologize if I came off as overly competitive or derisive, this is obviously very nice work and it seems like an attractive option for many users. Always happy to see deep learning made more accessible and open!
I'm not sure I'm a fan yet but the main benefit of pending comments will be that it should make people think more before commenting. If pending comments can be enabled per-thread, will there be a visual warning when commenting? I know mods will still have to approve the comment but that seems the lesser of the two benefits to me. If not then pending comments need to be enabled for the majority of threads to make everybody operation under the assumption that they are enabled.
Several good points: sales critters don't know their own product, need to research things that they ought to have memorized, and use lousy social-engineering tactics that feel as greasy as a batch of frozen fries cooked in cold oil.

It took me eleven go-rounds with a sales critter for a CDN/DDOS network to establish what I told him in the first phone call: there is no way that they will accept liability for disclosure of my clients' confidential data. He kept calling me by my first name, once every two sentences, asking me if we could make a deal if only we could get past this tiny technical objection, and assuring me that his manager would be able to help. The manager was just as useless.

I used to do sales engineering. The most important long-term function of a pre-sales engineer is to know the field so well that they can recommend something that will work for the prospective client, even if that's not something available from the engineer's company. Trying to sell something that doesn't work is a bad deal for everyone.
Downvoted for stating an irrelevant truth.
There was something from >1y ago.
He identified problems and proposed a solution to those problems. You've identified problems and used them as an excuse to continue the status quo or bring us back to a previous and less safe time in history.

What exactly do you find onerous in this 891 page residential code? Which country, state, municipality is it from? Could you provide a link? Who on the city council have you talked to about it?

If a foundation is cracked and unsound the landlord should be able to slap a new coat of paint on it and then flip it?

Licensing of tradesman is critical because it saves lives and mitigates losses from negligence. If you don't think it is, come to California and ask a Sheriff how swell of a job those pot farmers did wiring up their latest grow up in a house they rented from somebody else.

Code enforcement is like doing the dishes. If you don't do them every once and a while they start to pile up. It is also unfortunately necessary because people have shown time and again they WILL prioritize their income over the lives and well being of others. Given your condescending attitude I wouldn't be surprised if you were just such a person, hence the idle complaining.
Thank you for the answer and explanation!
Inbound is reasonable and entertaining.
Yes, and well understood. Do you understand ADHD?
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The videos on Evented Mind are fantastic to learn from as well - https://www.eventedmind.com (recently introduced a subscription model, though, some of the videos are still free to play).
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The most productive thing is to quit. Anyone who, in 2014, is still not paying interns is most likely not someone who can teach you anything. There is still plenty of time to find another internship for the summer.
Yup, it is that ridiculous either/or position why the blog post is incorrect.
Reminds me of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where most people can't actually read and just follow animated icons. "Mediaglyphs" I think it was called.
Oh, I was not talking about the principles of Chinese Medicine itself, more about the plants they actually used. I know several of them have been put in clinical trials contexts, and while some did fail, several of them showed actual efficacy as medicines.
If I get a call or they want to do it over a call, I refuse and do not use the product -- period.

When dealing with anyone in sales, I need EVERYTHING fully documented, on paper, preferably crypto-signed. Because every sales person lies.

Some dumb anecdotes:

I use Gandi.net - they have never called me once, everything just works, I've never had to use support, panel has everything self-service. Even supports DNSSEC.

Internet.bs - they have never called me once, everything just works, I've never had to use support, panel has everything self-service.

Godaddy called me 4 times upon registration to advertise shitty, worthless products like "email hosting". Not a single salesperson I ran into knew ANYTHING whatsoever about the product.

Register.com refuses to give up EPP code without a minimum 1 hour sales pitch by phone. They can go shove their phone up their asshole. The "give me EPP code" link in their panel just says "we will consider your request and maybe give you it in a few days, after you've gotten a call from Retentions" -- "You recently requested an auth code to transfer ... Your request has been processed and at this time it has been declined"

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It's pretty obvious why some companies are well rated in certain demographics.

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its not like employment suits are a mystery

you see high paid professionals (i-bankers, brokers, lawyers, etc) win big awards all the time.

here's one about Merrill

Then, in the spring of 2004, an arbitration panel found Merrill had systemically discriminated against female brokers and awarded $2.2 million to a single employee.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-27/merrill-lync...

it's not exactly the same but you get the idea. Juries look at the possible damages and base the award of that. The higher the salary, the higher the potential damages.
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