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I think many people are trying to make a distinction that is different from "this opinion is a political view, this opinion makes you part of a witch hunt".

The distinction being made isn't between the different views, but between the ways people express those views. Brendan Eich holds a political view, and what he did about it was to donate money to an organization in support of it. Other people hold a different political view, and what they did about it was to try to punish someone who had expressed the first political view.

And the argument goes that donating money to organizations is a form of political speech that should be protected, not just from the government but from citizens, because the effects of "people not being able to express their political views for fear of legal or social consequences" are kind of bad. So when people try to punish people for expressing political views, we should say to them, "no, this isn't how the game should be played".

This is a complicated issue, and my own opinions on it aren't fully fleshed out (though I lean towards defending Eich). But I think it's important that both sides understand what the other side is upset about.
I haven't seen much better logic from the other part.

It's not just a political view, they're taking away our rights!

If restricting the privileges of marriage to a group of people makes those left out "second class human beings", then the correct answer is to abolish marriage.

No, seriously. If this is truly a civil rights issue, then marriage itself (or, rather, its sanctioning by the state, with all the attendant privileges for married people and corresponding burdens on the community) is an inherently discriminatory institution. Fiscal benefits? Extended insurance? Visitation rights? Why should these privileges be enjoyed solely by married people?

You can just get married if you want to enjoy those benefits!

Yes, and gay people always had the option to marry someone of the opposite sex (in fact, many of them did). How is that a solution? Why am I required to be in a romantic/sexual relationship before I am granted my full rights?

If I am unmarried, why can't I name my cousin as a dependent for health insurance? Why can't I have my best friend immigrate to the US to be with me, instead of a spouse I don't have? What if I plan to be celibate all my life, but have strong platonic relationships? What if I am a polygamist?

The disestablishment of marriage should be the obvious conclusion to anyone who is truly approaching the issue with a concern for equality. The fact that nobody even seems to have considered it shows that, as usual, equality is just a buzzword, and this was really about a group advancing their own specific interests (and as long as they got what they wanted for themselves, screw everyone else). Which is ok, that's how politics usually works. But then, please drop the sanctimony and stop acting like you have the moral high ground. I am still paying higher taxes and getting less benefits because I do not conform to a state-sanctioned model of relationship, and you are my oppressor.
Bit off topic but I was reading up on FON who pioneered this stuff. Early stuff (2005):

"At first, Varsavsky says, he "couldn't see a business model" in his idea. "But I thought it could be a great thing. I thought, 'I'm going to develop some firmware that people can download into their router.'"
By November 2005, Fon's firmware was ready. Users could install it on the hack-friendly Linksys WRT54G router, which was built around Linux."

from http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/features/ope...

They now have about 12 million spots ( http://gigaom.com/2014/05/20/fons-crowdsourced-wi-fi-network... )
so doing ok but still a minority thing
You are assuming that the positions held by the left are held solely to undermine status quo...some parts of the status quo aren't discriminatory.

Do you really think that's what progressivism is?
If the only thing you learn from Andreessen is something you (presumably) disagree with then you are missing out.
In chrome, go to the console.

> loadAllSounds();

But, consider contributing. Looks like the dude has put in a fair bit of effort.
This was probably in the Radiolab episode "colors".
Just to add to what solarexplorer said, see eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_avoidance_algor...

In general TCP deals with dropped packets (and unstable links, be that due to traffic shaping or other causes) -- while eg: UDP assumes some packets will just vansish -- you have to (should) deal with it yourself...
You are exactly correct, but this is circular reasoning.

Let's just presume that all of us do something from time to time that the mob might find unpalatable: we cheat on our spouse, we evade taxes, we contribute to unpopular causes, and so on.

The question here is basically "What the hell are we doing?" Do we want a world where a few folks can research random corporate CEOs, dig up something to stir up the mob, then end up getting him fired? Because you're absolutely right about the role of CEO: once he's smeared with so much mud, he becomes a terrible liability for the company. The question is whether or not we're going to allow current political passions to influence where we start slinging the mud. You can't on one hand participate in this kind of attack on this guy because he was "wrong" and then on the other hand proclaim that sure, he has freedom of speech, but we also have the right to punish him. Or rather, you can, but it just basically means you can punish whomever you like.

And the end-game here is terribly clear as well: young leaders in tech will learn that it's completely fine to hold unpopular opinions; just don't ever let them out to where they can be observed publicly. This destroys open public discourse and creates a society where there are certain things you can say and certain things you can't. If you cross that line we will hunt you down and econmically punish you. That's crazy.
I don't know to be honest. I posted this here because I wanted to know what others thought of it.

By the way essen is the creator of cowboy a very popular erlang web framework.
Ask HN: Form vs Email, Which one is better for hiring?
We are an early stage start-up and are going to hire a new developer. I can't decide to use an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) or use the classic method (Giving email address in job ads and receiving applicants' email in my inbox). Why do most of job ads in HN use classic way? Why don't they use a ATS instead of giving their email in job ads?
Hmm..you are talking letting the view "change the values in the Model".

I thought "the view was not allowed to talk to the model, instead it had to be fed pre-digested info by the controller" made it clear that I was talking about updating the view from the model, not vice versa.

In MVC, the controller initiates changes in the model, not the view. However, the view updates itself from the model.

Whether that's good or bad is a different story, but that's how MVC is defined.
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A conservative believes things are good because they are old. A progressive believes things are good because they are new. Neither is correct.
Former LVMH director here.

The Chinese luxury market is insane and has been popping for the past ~10 years. It's not just LV (and child companies) but across the board, with Richemont and others doing quite well. LV just happens to be very good at a) encouraging mobility in its staff so that the "experience" is consistent b) grabbing a great spot of real estate and building monstrous stores in which you could fit an Apple store or ten and c) selling product that advertises the financial status of its owner.

I'm sure you could run a similar metric with Rolex or other "conspicuous consumption" brands.

And no, it's not the poor kids sewing Nikes who are buying the top kit. The average purchasing power is very low.
It could be true, that open source meaning is different now. But still I would use open-source by its current definition. Open source's meaning has expanded than what you describe. Which is why we now have Free AND Open Source Software(FOSS).

If you would look around there are lot of licenses built around this point. All open sourced software are not free. Some allow owner to restrict its use like not allowed to be used commercially.

If I had to sum it up these two would be orthogonal:
1. Closed-source vs open-source
2. Proprietary vs free.
My hobbies cost money too. And running a website at that level need not be expensive.
So long as it used the usual deflate algorithm, and you don't need to deal with recursive compression as in the article, yes. The size counter program would be structured similarly to the decompression algorithm, but there are some points where the compressed file says "repeat this many bytes from this location" where a decompressor would have to copy that many bytes, where the counter would only have to add the number.
The encryption method is a simple XOR cypher. It uses the key "581fad87738939".

<?php
function encryptSID2($sid)
{
return dechex(0x58 ^ $sid{0}) . dechex(0x1f ^ $sid{1}) . dechex(0xad ^ $sid{2}) . dechex(0x87 ^ $sid{3}) . dechex(0x73 ^ $sid{4}) . dechex(0x89 ^ $sid{5}) . dechex(0x39 ^ $sid{6});
}
?>
He died in February, why is this news now?
This is already somewhat feasible and someone is actually working on it: http://memkite.com/blog/2014/04/01/technical-feasibility-of-...
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"Net goodness" is a slippery slope.
I thought the most interesting leak from the Apple-FDA meeting notes was the expression that Apple going into health is a "moral obligation".
This is true but not necessarily entirely correct either. IKEA probably has a legal department handling things such as trademark issues, knockoffs etc; that department may have very little contact with marketing or much-higher-ups.

It's unlikely nobody would be aware of this if this was over "months of negociations", though. Still, I think this is a case where a lot of bureaucracy has clouded what should be a very clear cut case. It's possible if a reasonable top-of-the-chain higher-up is told about all this and it is clearly demonstrated that (assuming this is at all what the site owner wants) IH could be acquired or affiliated and the whole thing could turn from bad PR to good PR, they would tell legal/laywers to sod off.
I don't think that's correct. Doesn't the hippo campus store memories?
Although I think you have pointed out some spot on concepts in diagnosing issues, I think the leading analogy is lacking. I don't think you can make such a supposition that a musician without sight is incapable of producing the music they desire. I'm sure you could come up with a much more appropriate example without trampling on musicians without sight.
I think you fail to understand the basiscs about how IKEA is put together. The brand is not owned by the parent company:

http://www.thelocal.se/20120809/42514

So when you do something with the IKEA brand and furniture all kinds of 'reasonably considerations' that would flow from brand being owned by the mothership go right out the window.

Likely the only kind of employee the brand company has is IP lawyers.
Father's day, I think.
Lawyers are notorious for not understanding the underlying things like this. Could be the crack in their armor that they didn't see. It just takes a $5 per customer class action suit to get their attention.
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Super stuff Matt. I was toying with the idea of doing something very much like that a few years ago but felt that the copyright issues were hairy enough that I should stay away from it. I loved the emulation articles. This is totally off-topic and I can probably find out if I go through your website but did you get mode 7 to work as well?
Ask HN: How to find a marketing co-founder?
I'm a developer, working on a (saas) project.

I know that at some point I will need help of marketing person, but I know only developers.

So how to find a marketing co-founder?

Any advice will be appreciated.
I guess I object to calling it "Wireless" when it's really just RADAR. It feels like they're trying to use the term wireless to make it less innocuous? I mean if they said they were working on High Resolution hand-held RADAR systems then the public would freak out thinking about the kid in the picture. Meanwhile calling it "wireless" seems to make it ok because we're all exposed to "wireless" with our wifi and wireless phones.

In the end it's all radio with all it's pluses and minuses.
But both oz and gallon are still imperial units. In metric they would use liters. So this isn't caused by half-assed use of the metric system, but rather by not using it at all.
At least #2 on their list of issues is currently fixed in GHC 7.8
We also have it in Africa... Although only relatively new.
You almost have it. Each user would receive a STS federated token, and their attached policy would give them permission to S3 keys prefixed with their user ID.
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The reason you can't point to any large scale studies is because all of them found aspartame to be harmless, not induce an insulin response, etc (i.e the complete opposite of your theory).

Diet coke hates are in the same category as anti-vacs campaigners... They don't believe in science.
Buy the domain idea-sunday.com and set up a site where people can post new ideas only on Sundays while all the other days are devoted to posting code, constructive discussions and other stuff.
* It's not the case of rolling your own crypto, as this phrase usually applies to the case of implementing your own crypto algorithms/protocols in an application. The author proposes a new crypto algorithm.

* It's not the case of security through obscurity, as there is no secrecy of the algorithm design.

(As a side note, I don't see how this algorithm prevents cheap hardware implementations of it.)
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This looks cool - I just tried an install on a Ubuntu server - but it seems Debian really is needed, I guess that's why they said that :) - So going to spin up a Debian vps and try again.
The idea (I think) is that it's more difficult to build dedicated hardware for the brute force attack that's cheaper than doing it with a general-purpose CPU.
I dont have data to support, but I think the idea was to build the largest solar with an huge initial investment. Something not possible for majority of other company. Since most of the Datacenter operation cost are electricity, Apple essentially gets it for free, and the unused electricity are sold back to the grid.
On the conservative side I think in the long run ( 10+ years time ) the cost would have roughly the same. Or it is more likely to be a huge saving over time.
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It looks like the authors just looked at DEFLATE and tweaked it mainly by better engineering and taking into account modern hardware specifications (larger window size, ...), but largely ignoring the theoretical research that has been carried out on LZ77 in the last few years.

For example a paper from last SODA [1] shows that by using a better optimization algorithm and just simple universal codes instead of Huffman, it is possible to beat zlib in space and compete with Snappy in decompression speed (and I'm sure that the decoder can be further optimized). This is just the last one on the topic but there have been quite a few.

Caveats: compression is fairly slow (but can be improved with heuristics) and the datasets used in the experiments are big and very repetitive (so it is not clear how it performs on small files), but still I think that many ideas should finally find their way into modern compression formats.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.3872v1.pdf

Disclaimer: the paper authors are from my CS department.
I really don't understand the argument that it's necessarily 'bad' to attempt action against someone based on their opinions (or direct actions), especially if they're being put in to a position where those opinions run counter to their responsibilities.

Should say, a CEO be free to donate to a white power group and not have it affect their career? What if they donated to a group trying to have black people declared as property? Would it be 'destroying open public discourse' or 'crazy' if some of the future property then protested or boycotted said company? If I'm understanding all the arguments of this type correctly, the answer appears to be "yes".
I think the main issue is that hardware companies in general really suck at writing software.
> Do we want a world where a few folks can research random corporate CEOs, dig up something to stir up the mob, then end up getting him fired?

An alternate moral frame for the same concept: do we want a world where social pressure can be used to make particular political actions risky for people who are otherwise immune to or insulated from risk? There are precious few other options for discouraging wealthy, influential people from disproportionately wielding their wealth and influence in the service of reactionary ends.

When it comes down to it, I think Eich's supporters and detractors mostly differ on where the line should be drawn, not on whether there should be a line at all. There is unquestionably some level of private expressive action by a CEO that would be almost universally acknowledged as incompatible with holding the position.

If it were to turn out that Tim Cook was a die-hard white supremacist who had donated repeatedly to the cause and appeared on video speaking passionately about the need to ethnically cleanse the United States, I think you'd have only a tiny fraction of holdouts defending him on the basis of free speech. Similarly, if the CEO of BP was ousted for being critical of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia, I think you'd hear rights-based arguments against it from people who reject such arguments for Eich.
I would definitely go for creating plugins for popular content management systems. You can then optimize landing pages for each CMS - people searching for "generate PDF from WordPress" etc.

People using a CMS solution are a really great market for you. They may well be on hosting that does not allow them to install serverside components to make generating PDFs easier. They may also have limited development skills - being more web designers or front end developers, so they couldn't solve this problem themselves.

You may well be able to get your plugin listed in the marketplace's or addon listings for the CMS solutions you are targeting, especially if there is some free limited mode.

As for advertising your product places. One way to not be spammy is to keep an eye on forums for people asking how to generate a PDF from their application. You then reply with how they would do that themselves via some open source script or whatever for their particular platform. It's a PITA on most platforms, so you can then drop in at the end that you have a service that does this. So you have given them some info on how to DIY as this is your specialist subject, but also dropped in a link for an easier way to do it via your service.
Oolite is much more of a descendant of the original Elite than it is an descendant of FFE. Last I tried Oolite you couldn't land on planets for example. And contrary to Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, Oolite takes place in the "classic" Elite universe. Oolite also uses the "classic" hyperjump's of Elite, rather than the mechanism used in FFE.

Overall, I'd say oOlite is "Elite 2 for those that didn't like the Frontier games". It doesn't try to change Elite conceptually nearly as much as the Frontier games did. When I finally first saw them, the games were not recognizable to me. When I first saw oOlite, my first reaction was "ah, this is Elite, just prettier and with more choices".

Comparing Oolite to FFE makes little sense to me, unless your goal is explicitly to contrast them - they've gone in drastically different directions from the same starting point, and oOlite bears pretty much no resemblance to FFE.
Thank you for the link. However, at least in the wikipedia article, it seems to be more a discussion of fuel use (the original observation was about coal) rather than material use. Fuels are used up; materials used to build things can be recycled. From my recollection of Buckminster's discussion of ephemeralization, he restricted it to only material use. And Gates' discussion in the article is again only about material use.

I think it's quite conceivable that a world with a stable population could rely almost entirely on recycling of at least some materials. In Brazil, they already recycle 98% of aluminium can production.
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ALL companies suck at writing software. Our tools are in the dark ages still. There is nothing that combines the wisdom of the past and applies it to the problems of today.
Apparently the Chinese are also now consuming more French wine than the French are.
Can confirm - "Free Wifi" (from ISP Free) is pretty useful, because you can find hostspots almost everywhere. (Too bad EAP-SIM isn't working on Android without rooting the device, sheesh :p)
The existence of subterranean oceans is not based in reality at all. All this reference to oceans in the mantle is science journalist bullshit. There is no ocean at 700 km depth.

The paper refers to the mineral ringwoodite, for which the anhydrous formula is (Fe,Mg)SiO4. Hydrous ringwoodite has the capacity to take some OH groups in the mineral structure, probably in a coupled substitution with vacancies/defects/some trace element such as titanium. Recently a ringwoodite sample was found that had 1.5 weight % H2O in its structure. What that means is it is entirely unlikely that there will ever be free water in the mantle, because you can dissolve so much of it in the minerals. Free water can only exist when the minerals can not longer fit any more in them.

What the authors did was take some hydrous ringwoodite and put it in a diamond anvil cell and heat a bit of it with a laser. The bit they heated transformed into the minerals perovskite and ferropericlase, and amorphous material the authors interpret as quenched silicate liquid (i.e. glass, analogous to obsidian). The perovskite and ferropericlase have less capacity to dissolve H2O than the ringwoodite, so when ringwoodite breaks down, some H2O is releasd. However, instead of forming free water, the H2O reacts with the other minerals to form a silicate liquid (i.e. magma with some H2O dissolved in it). This reaction is referred to as dehydration melting: the reaction of a hydrous mineral phase to form other mineral phases and a silicate liquid. You dehydrate a mineral and form melt.

The authors then relate the mineral scale reactions to global scale seismic structure. Low velocity regions are observed when mantle downwells from above the 660 km continuity to below it. Low velocity zones are interpreted to be associated with the presence of silicate liquids. Thus, the authors suggest that downwelling of hydrous ringwoodite bearing mantle from above the 660 discontinuity to below it will result in a phase change to pervoskite + ferropericlase + silicate liquid, consistent with the presence of low velocity zones. The amount of silicate liquid produced is about 1%. You don't need much silicate liquid to make low velocity zones.

This entire story does not involve free H2O at any stage. Any reference to oceans is misleading.