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"Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?" Answer: it's not. Yes, I know that metric prefixes have official definitions; but inflammable means flammable. Language changes. A kilobyte has meant 2^10 bytes since the very first time anyone ever used the term, and it has continued to mean that in every case except for dishonest drive manufacturers and revisionist prescriptivists. Weight of usage ought to trump.

The idea of using different words to distinguish between real and fake gigabytes is a good one, but it makes the fundamental mistake of getting the "real" one backwards. It should be gigabytes and metric gigabytes, not gibibytes and gigabytes.
What reason do you have to suspect this extraordinary measure?
Is it more accurate to describe wealth ranges as standard deviations from the mean rather than a linear percentage?
I guess the question is how big of a market is there for this service? You could have alerts for Kindle version, audiobook and/or paperback. The monetization would be simple through Amazon affiliates, and implementation could just scan Amazon periodically.
Thank you for that -- I've been looking for that link for years. I remember reading it when it came out, but for some reason was unable to find it in the archives the few times I went looking for it since.
If you're using Chrome (and I believe Firefox can do this too), if you go to the settings, there is a section for Users. You can add a new user to the browser and use that account for demo purposes. Our sales guys do the exact same thing.
Even worse -- on top of the shaky ground of the argument that "income inequality is a huge evil" is built a remedy that the government is somehow going to equitably redistribute the wealth without destroying a great deal of it in the process.

Income mobility is so much more important as an economic concern over income inequality.
Redirects don't maintain URL state. If I make a redirect rule that points everything to /index.html, once I get to /index.html the browser doesn't keep the old URL in the location bar.
On this situations, I end up wondering what's the right level of intolerance to intolerance. How much hate can one pour on someone that is being a bit bigot before you end up being just the same, but with a mirror?

Then one starts to question if being intolerant with the people that are intolerant of those that are intolerant is any better, and whether we are working in a system that allocates the call stack in the heap or in a defined stack, because too much thinking in this direction would cause a stack overflow in the JVM.
Problem is a Marriage license is not defined by a religion in power as a government.

Marriage license should be religion netrual when you get down to it..all should be allowed to marry as many people at once as they want irregardless of creed, sexual orientation, gender, etc.
I think you misunderstand communities. Vibrant communities are full of people who share a materially common set of opinions about various things. They engage and interact within that world view.

At the same time people evolve and communities evolve. Sometimes you move away from the community, sometimes they move away from you. Either way, you can end up feeling like an outsider in a group you once considered yourself to be part of the 'in' crowd.

Because a large part of anyone's current point of view is driven by past experience, communities often segment by age but sometimes segment by politics or world events (the mechanism is that people take away different things from the same experience, it "changes" them in different ways, and that puts into further out or closer to other members of the community.

The internet "echo chamber effect" as you call it is defeated by visiting multiple communities and watching and noting the differences. That your favorite 'hang out' on the Internet has become distasteful to you can no more be "fixed" than you can will your favorite eatery or bar to exist for all time.

Things change, people change, places change. Keep moving and an open mind.
I know, I know; it was in jest. And the English do seem to like France. We can look back in time to see that much. (Another joke..). I'm still not sure they like the French.
Title: Scientists have conclusively proven that abortion is murder!

<Insert article proclaiming the evils of abortion>

Footer in tiny text: *If we define murder to mean the death of a living organism

This article would be technically correct, but does it seem honest to you?
DynASM isn't quite a full code generator, since you can't easily select registers dynamically.
Rw – stdin and stdout, the right way
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I've previously said that I'd like to see a fork of Wikipedia.

The new version would remove the toxic meta community. It would focus on narrow and defined topics ("science", "art over 50 years old") and would have rigorous fact checking and sourcing. It would aim for truth and accuracy, not whatever the hell WP currently does.

It would also have much better introductory paragraphs for every article.
Hey this is my first post. The word "bigot" seems to be used a lot in these post. I was curious to find out what was the exact definition of the word and found this on m-w.com: "a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc...one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance" I have a hard time believing that a guy who worked for a company as diverse as Mozilla with almost no signs of mistreating his gay or lesbian employees could be given such a strong label, again, someone who "strongly and unfairly dislikes" gays.

As someone new to this post, your comments seem to be more aligned with this definition then Eich's. For someone who seeks equality, your post seem full of "hatred and intolerance."
Focusing on the richest can be more gratifying than focusing on the poorest. Everyone likes to hear stories about people with lots of money. It's aspirational in the "some day, that will be me" or "can you imagine?" forms. But it's not the most productive way to understand income inequality.

The real metrics we should be looking at are how poor are the poorest people. How many gallons of milk or loaves of bread can someone buy with minimum wages? Does the current level of social mobility allow someone to escape from poverty within their life time? The issue isn't about how much more money the super rich have than the rest of us. It's about how we can help the poor to have enough to survive.

Counting other peoples' money is a vulgar pursuit. It's sad that typing a celebrity's name into google often leads to a "how much is ________ worth" autocomplete suggestion. Being fascinated with the rich is understandable, but just a little more focus on the poor would benefit us all. Our startups and apps need paying customers, and there's only so much that rich people will buy. If we can configure our economy in such a way that the middle class is larger, more people will have money to spend on all kinds of things. Then maybe more of us can move into the top 2% or 3%, while leaving the megarich alone to focus on their own funds.
The revolution of 2014’s summer vacation abroad.
With the international tourism market on their minds, two Brazilian siblings have put together a team of professionals from Brazil and the U.S. to create a mobile application to facilitate the life of any tourist while traveling abroad.
With years of travel experience, Leonardo and Andrea Mascarenhas realized that with a simple mobile application, they could help tourists and business travelers to control one of the biggest difficulties visitors encounter while abroad: ordering great food. Anyone who travels abroad often faces uncomfortable and stressful situations, because they do not speak the local language, local businesses are not prepared to server foreigners, or they are unfamiliar with the local cuisine. As you can see, there are multiple sources of stress, but very few ways around it.
With the goal to improve travelers experience while abroad, they created along with designer Joshu “Tastyeasy”, a mobile application that combines restaurant menu translation services with sharing capability. The goal is to translate every restaurant menu and enable travelers to control their dining and overall experience while abroad using a smartphone. Another key feature is that users will be able to review feedback provided by others, such as which are the best rated restaurants and dishes in town, etc.
I've actually been working on this. Dutch, unfortunately, but here you go: http://lucb1e.com/rp/js/en%20dan%20nu%20in%20het%20Nederland...

Quick translation of the text on the page:

Title: And now in plain Dutch

Intro paragraph: Contracts are always written in a very cryptic manner. So what do they say in short, plain old Dutch?

Status of the project: beta. I've "translated" 2 out of 38 paragraphs from one contract I've received, and that was a lot of work already. Those paragraphs work fine now, but it still needs a lot more work.
> Wayland is (probably) still years from getting adopted even by "bleeding-edge" distributions like Arch

AFAIK Fedora is planning to ship Wayland in version 21, scheduled for release later this year. Probably not as default, but still.
right. ignore the validity of my comments. just take offense to the words.

Whilst living in Montana, I have been harrassed multiple times for my sexuality. I have been beaten to unconsciousness by people I didn't even see approaching me, left with a sign saying "HOMO" on my body. I have had a rope around my neck, and three men lift my drugged body to a tree so I could die. Thankfully, a less bigoted person scared them off with a shotgun and got me medical attention. It's why I left the states and moved to Canada.

I know the words I'm using. I feel entitled to use them, as I'm fully calibrated to their meanings.

Now, perhaps you haven't learned that a "Political Lynch Mob" is a thing. And that angry mobs are often out for blood, literally AND figuratively. Perhaps you haven't seen any political lynch mobs in the past, and never seen them literally go for blood. Allow me to inform you that they do happen. I invite you to crack open a history book. Perhaps start with the Boston Tea Party, which, while not a literal lynch mob, did in fact irreparably burn a politician with hot tar, and then cover him in feathers as a sort of public mockery. because of Taxes on Tea. If you think that is somehow more justified than a group of people that (I completely believe) would beat Eich in the street if a group of them found him alone, for donating money to a cause they found abhorrent, I don't know what to say to you.

if you think I'm exaggerating about how groups of angry citizens almost always lead to senseless violence, you should probably crack open that history book again.
Water moves in and out of cells via osmosis in an attempt to equalize solute concentration on both sides of the membrane. This is a passive process not controlled by insulin. You can place a cell in distilled water and watch it grow or a saline solution and watch it shrink.
I really wish I can still code at 70!
> It reads a lot better in a column width which can't be measured in positive integer miles

I didn't find narrower versions to perform well: http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#max-width-redux
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I like the idea of fantasy as being "feigned history".

It's fortunate that Tolkien's dislike of allegory was cordial, given that he was besties with C. S. Lewis.
The larger idea this fits into is getting rid of X11 all together. The inevitable replacement is Wayland.* One of the challenges of such a switch will that once you start using wayland, you'll have some older applications that cant talk to wayland, you'd have to start an X server to run that old application.

If you have a wayland session on your computer, you don't want to hit ctrl-alt-8 to switch over to an X session running that single application, and then switch back and forth to wayland to use every other program. It would be nice if there was a X server that worked as a wayland client and could put the X-only application on your wayland desktop. That's Xwayland.

* For a better explanation on ditching X, and what Wayland is: see this talk from one of the X dudes working on Wayland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
what kind of applications can we see with XWayland replacing X? Will headless applications be more common? What sort of things will be created with it?
A device that would let people sleep in public while letting other people around them think they're awake (business meetings, boring lectures, etc.)

This could either be glasses with realistic eyes painted on them, or opaque contact lenses (that would then require the bearer to be able to sleep with their eyes opened -- but if no light enters the eye it should be quite possible).

There are many situations when you can't really leave the room to take a nap and yet you feel as though you'll die if you resist sleep a minute more.
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My house was protested today by anti-tech folks
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Tastyeasy Team.
That is the individual/personal cost, the "you" in the original comment. I am interested in the societal cost.
> Using a more optimal column width.

http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#max-width-redux

> Using a more optimal leading (line-height).

http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height
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> The confusion arises from the fact that, when referring to RAM, we (mistakenly) use 'kilobyte', 'megabyte' or 'gigabyte' to mean 2^10, 2^20 or 2^30 bytes.

It's not a mistake. In a living language, weight of usage trumps prescriptivism.

> However, in common usage we now have the pretty awful scenario where, if a person says "a megabyte", the actual number of bytes they're talking about can change depending on where the data is stored! A megabyte of RAM is not a megabyte of hard disk space.

That's not correct. A megabyte of RAM and a megabyte of HD are both 1,048,576 bytes, one megabyte. Again, usage trumps prescriptivism.

I agree that the hard-drive-manufacturer thing is not a "conspiracy;" it's simple false advertising that slips through the cracks of the law because of, again, a foolish belief in prescriptivism on the part of the enforcers.
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You should be ashamed of yourself.

I appreciate the intensity of the issue, but personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

Edit: thanks to seertaak below for pointing out that this was trivial compared to what Karunamon was responding to.

I get that it gives the wrong impression to admonish one person while ignoring something much worse. On the other hand, we (and certainly I) can't read all the comments, so there's inevitably some randomness here. I can't promise to get everything right, but I do promise to listen to correcting feedback.
Correct, I agree with anon_b and it's very obvious bsamuels hasn't built anything in Haskell.
Yahoo has fully embraced working with security researchers. For a company their size (they're no. 1 in web traffic!) with that many different services, they're doing an amazing job. No company that size has ever moved this fast. Yes, they're catching up but they do it fast!
Ugh. I would much rather know that the process died because of allocation failure than try to figure out why some code is trying to write to a random null pointer as these are two very different types of bugs.
> What a coincidence that sites using it, including the beelinereader.com site itself, use super-tight line-height. Thing is, line-height helps with the same issue (but without the weird colors), so if they'd fix that, the funky colors aren't as useful anymore.

If it's super-tight, why did loosening it not seem to help? http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height

> Whatever one may prefer, I see they offer a plugin, which is a better way to use this tech, not by random sites forcing it on us.

Is it better? That seems like the sort of claim that should be tested...
Mutable closures in Haskell and nested IO
Your derision comes with a dearth of actual reasoning as to why "complex" applications don't work from a static architecture perspective or how you define complexity.
I went to Wesleyan, and I graduated with only five semesters on campus in part to keep costs down. So, I appreciate the purpose behind this policy.

However, it doesn't change the fact that tuition is almost $47k/year, which is just a staggering amount of money for most families. And that's before room and board, etc. Forcing someone to cram four years of college into three to save 20% on $240k+ isn't especially helpful.
A good CEO is the most public figure of the company, under constant media scrutiny.

If you think that's unfair or that the public shouldn't care about public figures, that high horse will only take you as far as hand waving theory.

OKCupid made a business decision. It could have been as superficial as Eich's hair color but there it is. This pathetic whining about "fairness" to the leadership of such a consumer oriented company is naive and disingenuous.
I lost flagging privileges after I did it to 20 or so stories. All were more off-topic than this, one literally on the Chinese silk road from about 200 BC.

But I agree with you, that instagram posts like these are low-content, even though this issue itself is interesting.

I think HN needs a downvote button.
And self driving busses could run there too. Maybe rebuild the old fashioned legacy railways as modern truck-bus-ways.
On the other hand, wasn't Lars the driving force between the terrible mastering of their more recent albums? I remember reading something where he said basically that because he didn't personally hear any clipping and it sounded good in his car that it was good.
This is a tired mantra. It does not bear close scrutiny. It is a meme created by the wealthy and powerful to maintain their wealth and power. It is similar to the belief inculcated by royalty that they rule by divine right.
Worked there for 9 years. Its funny. Outside of this area, it doesn't occur to most people that Walmart would have IT, but they've got more people in that building than some IT companies.
I'm not going to delete it, it's there for a reason.

Maybe you're just so busy arguing with everyone else that you can't remember who said what, or what we were even talking about. But you've intentionally walked in circles, and had problems making a consistent argument.

You claim you wanted rights without even knowing that you had them, or acknowledging that my proposed solution also does away with the separate but equal bullshit.

And yes, you insult me every time you make derisive comments like "Yeah, fuck me for wanting equality like blacks and women." That's just a plain lie. There's no lack of equality, and I'm even agreeing with you about the separate but equal statements. You still demand that you're right though, and insist that I must be a bigot.

That's demeaning to me, and it short circuits a real discussion, like you've been trying to do all along. You're JUST as bad as the supporters of prop 8, and that's what I'm trying to call out.
Being a hypocrite about paywalls after the company is re-structured is related to this somehow?
What if it was a Spotify-like model. ~$4.99/mo unlimited streaming, money is pooled and then pay out a % to content owners based on # of plays each video gets? The more popular episodes earn more of the money.
Muni (SF) shuffles and hides millions in budgeting fraud
Web development newbie here. Is there a starter template available on these lines that has the guts built-in, including both client and server code, user authentication, server-side database access, a default theme, etc., where the developer can start by defining the application-specific data models and business logic?
from my limited understanding, it's supposed to replace the X display server which is bloated and not lean. One potential I see is it will be easier and more efficient to run applications in headless mode. I'd like to know more about Wayland.
From everything I've read, he voluntarily stepped down, without any pressure exerted on him by anyone above him or who otherwise has direct power over him. Has anybody seen any indication otherwise?

In this case, I'm more inclined to see it as a good move overall. He isn't a backroom coder or language designer or something, whose opinions and PR profile don't really matter. As CEO, his whole job is to lead, set the direction of the company, and be its public face. This issue, and his handling of it, seem to show that he isn't really cut out for the job and shouldn't be doing it. It was probably a mistake to take it in the first place, but I don't think he could have a good career just moving to a lower position at the company now.

I will say that I respect him more for stepping down on his own, and for not pulling some bullshit PR move like apologizing or making a token donation to some pro-LGBT cause. That always seemed so slimy to me - like saying "I probably still believe what I always believed, but I will kowtow to the PC gods and make a PR move to save my job without ever actually standing up for what I believe."
This would make my idea for a mobile app that renders pictures of the sugar/salt/fat content in foods by OCRing the label a trivial problem, and it could lead to many other applications like a shopping assistant for diabetics, athletes, etc.

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> "Carol never wore her safety goggles. Now she doesn't need them."

Wasn't that "Em" who doesn't need them? ;)
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> I'm pretty sure civil marriage has nothing to do with "the symbolic value of 'marriage' as a Christian institution".

The difference is that you are more rational and clear thinking individual than many many others. Trying to apply your logic to their "logic" will just result in frustration.

The Cognitive Therapy approach to argument ("Well let me show you how your argument is internally inconsistent") doesn't often work in such case.

So what does that mean in this case. It means that they can have a deep belief that civil marriage is tied to the Christian idea and still accept that atheists and Hindus also take part in it. There is vague religious mythology associated with the Founding Fathers, Constitution and the idea of exclusivity of this country. We are shocked how some Islamic country go full on and just base their legal framework on Islamic rules, but there are swathes of Americans would love nothing more that see that happen here but with Christian ideology.

They have been also losing ground (abortion etc), saw a resurgence with election of Bush junior (a large Evangelical backing) and now they are losing ground again and are being backed into a corner. Instead of seeing the crazy irrationality of their action they lash out and create Prop 8 like campaigns. Tea parties and so on.
I think the only remaining problem is Flash. Hopefully Mozilla Shumway will cover that at some point.
So, I can interpret your reply as "no. I could not find any examples of Brendan Eich saying that gays were second-class citizens." I appreciate your agreement in this.
Question!

Do transactional NoSQL(others than HyperDex) databases exist? or do transactions make horizontal scaling difficult?
Yes, among other things. Just read the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Are you implying there were a bunch of southern business owners who wanted to provide integrated service, but were unable to because of Jim Crow? That's what it sounds like, and it's so wrong it's astounding.
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