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I was thinking more along the lines of things like speed cameras - they capture more speeding violations, don't discriminate based on race/gender/whether or not you're driving an expensive car/etc., and they note only the fact that the driver violated the speed limit. The driver gets a fine in the mail shortly after. It improves on the model where the police only pull over a fraction of violators, and you spend 15 minutes waiting, subject to intimidation, further questioning by the officer, the officer gets to glance in your windows to see if there's anything else that violates the law, and in the end you still get a fine. Yet, almost everyone I've talked to about speed cameras hates them and sees them as invasive, sometimes going so far as calling them Orwellian.

I agree about the TSA checkpoints, though. There are plenty of examples on both sides of the arguments. My point is that the general assumption seems to gravitate to "they'll implement it stupidly, so they shouldn't have that capability at all". It's not necessarily a binary choice between no security and stupid implementation.
No? No way?
OK, good talk!
This is something I wish people understood.

The kernel community is old.. you can't walk in there an expect people to conform to your new-age ideas.

That being said you are more than welcome to start new projects and choose not to include more abrasive people.
This is the beauty of culture, everyones is different.
While true this doesn't seem to be a practical issue. Any uncompressable data can be encoded using only one bit of overhead, where the bit is a flag indicating whether the rest of the data is compressed. In practice, there is a header and a field indicating which compression method to use. You pay for the size of the header. Adding support for another compression method is nearly free as far as space is concerned; one byte can switch between 256 of them. (Time is another matter.)
I think the parent comment meant that his management methods, albeit eclectic, were still effective.
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It's easy to forget that these people are not employees of Linus Torvalds; they are members of a volunteer army.
Facebook can't forcefully imprison me so there's that
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I'm guessing you're an LDS? I've always wondered if the church will release an API of sorts.. It would be nice to use for apps and who knows what else. A lot of the URLs on lds.org are quite SES/nicely formatted already, e.g. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1973/10/behold-thy-mo..., and if they just added the option to return it in a different data format like JSON that'd be neat. ;)
I'm hoping this is at least partly a troll, because it misses an incredibly important fact - Linux belongs to Linus, he owns the trademark, he is the dictator, and he can literally do anything he wants with the project including shutting it down, walking away, and leaving the world to fork it and carry on.

You may well consider it important and fundamental, but that gives you exactly as much right to decide how to run it as any other piece of private property (which is zero, if I'm not being clear). The fact that he chooses to give away the output has no bearing on anything.
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This is why it is always hard to compete with startups. You sell an app, they bring out a free app. They don't have to make money like regular people, they just need users to get backing. You need money because you are a regular person.
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Thanks for that insightful explanation! I was wondering: could you explain in a nutshell what the KAM theorem is all about? I've heard about it many times, but I still have no idea what 'invariant tori' are...
Experimentalists often tend to get more credit than theoreticians. People (apparently along with the Nobel committee) prefer results over potential theories.
The thought of even touching systems at such scales terrifies me.
I think this is actually a fairly common case. Take a hard-left political movement; generally quite diverse (in particular, socialist movements tend to have very high representation of women) and yet also very shout-y and argumentative.

The opposite also happens; a common complaint of highly reactionary commentators is that people aren't responding 'civilly' to their regressive nonsense about the threat posed by the gays or how women's' place is in the home or whatever, but are instead using rude words and personal attacks.
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The tone difference is certainly stark! The bug report feels like a process is in play, while the mail has a tone of a rant in a closed room.

I often take it for granted the compiler is always right (and it darn well just about is), but bugs like this look exactly like mis-cast magic to me. Learning how the compiler makes decisions seems like a rabbit hole, but may be fascinating enough to be worth it. (And think about being a maintainer of such a complex beast!)
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If they're only doing multi-sig internally, that's a bit disappointing.

I think the Copay wallet from Coinbase's competitor, Bitpay, does true multi-signature.

Coinbase's current solution is a significant improvement for people who must use Coinbase for some other reason, I suppose. Anyone else should think about the advantages of true multi-sig on the blockchain
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IMHO our current conception of dark matter/energy is just a modern application of 'aether'[1]. It basically means we're not sure what it is yet, but it's there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)
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I tried using helm when I wanted to learn emacs and my problem is that helm is incredibly ugly, and customizing it would take a good amount of time.
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I was surprised to see that this is relatively unknown in the US. I think it's common knowledge here in Canada.

Generally, it is the pharmacy chains that sell their own, branded generic medication at the stores. These products have higher margins and lower prices, so it is in everyone's best interest that they are promoted. The generic is located on the shelf right beside the major-label brand name, so price comparison is a no-brainer. But I suppose having the knowledge that the ingredients are identical precludes making that choice.
I think any reasonably sized group of people can reasonably be expected to defend themselves when accused of being literally the worst in some way that matters if they don't think they are, regardless of their level of pedantry. In general, if you're trying to make some other major point in an article, it's best to equivocate on things that you think would be inflammatory and irrelevant.
You are right! First of all thank you guys for being nice and trying to help me. My game is about Zip, a cute creature made in laboratory by a mad scientist. The target of the game is to save your caged brothers from his huge mansion. Its a puzzlish adventure game, and its not easy, but it is fun and enjoyable
I don't think it's even an all-English-speaker thing; rude words are sometimes practically used as punctuation in Ireland, Scotland, and parts of England.
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> Exactly what privilege is he excercising here?

It wasn't exactly well defined in the parent post, but I assumed that he was talking about Linus' rude and condescending way of expressing himself as a privilege.

> He's stated that GCC 4.9.0 is doing some "seriously crazy shit" as a response to a bug report on the Linux kernel mailing list.

> He at no point has insulted the GCC developers, the submitter of the bug, or anyone else who regularly reads the LKML.

I'm not sure how his remarks about GCC can not be insulting to its developers, but each to their own. It's hard to deny the condescending tone of lacing your rant with things like "Lookie here," though.

> I'm not sure why you see defending the Linux kernel code against a problem in GCC 4.9.0 (with exact examples of why GCC is breaking the standards) is exercising any privileges, other than those granted by being the creator of Linux.

Unsurprisingly, he goes on to explain the problem matter-of-factly in a way that I'm sure would have gotten his otherwise completely valid point across on its own, but I'm not sure how his disparaging tone and language contributes to this defense.

> I personally think that Linux, Git and recently, Subsurface definitely justify his behaviour here.

I'm not sure how any of those things could possibly justify his tone and language, so I'm going to assume that we aren't talking about the same thing here.

> If you want to argue with him, send him an email. He'll be glad to reply.

I have no interest in arguing with him.

> Otherwise, don't complain about his behaviour on HN. It's the internet equivalent of talking about people behind their back.

I'm not complaining. If you care to read my initial post in this branch again you will notice that I am simply saying that his accomplishments don't justify his manner of speaking. I'm willing to admit that there could be some other factor that does, but I simply can't see the justifiable connection between engineering something like Linux or git and treating people badly, and this is not a criticism towards him as much as it is of the idea that his accomplishments somehow justify this behavior.

Besides, you are talking behind his back as much as I am, which isn't a great concern to me because he is a person of great public interest, posting these things in a public mailing list.
Good luck changing the Church of Scientology from within. Or lecturing the Pope about preventing AIDS by distributing free condoms, for that matter.
I'm reminded of this:

http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism-...
It was a user with a grudge that was banned from the service. They attempted to use a number of online point and click tools to attack the site, until I eventually banned their IP address, and then talked with them and threatened legal action.
As I've worked with more and more younger developers ("Millennials" or "hipsters" or whatever you want to call them), I've noticed that many of them consider criticism of somebody's work to be a criticism of the work's creator himself or herself.

I don't really know for sure why this is. Maybe they're more attached to what they've created, seeing it more as a work of art or something like that, instead of just a tool?
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How the hell is this abusive? Notice how he isn't cursing at any one person? Notice how he points out exactly what gcc is doing wrong? Notice how he made a bug report to get the problem fixed? Notice how no one in that email thread had any problems with his tone?
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So i can buy a product on facebook through #buythis comment?
Can someone sell products too ??
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It's not quite time to go into full Dustin-Hoffman-killer-virus-movie paranoia yet, but the it seems the inability to safely process the biohazards, bodies and healthcare paraphernalia is a real problem. Even if you're quarantined, someone eventually has to cleanup the mess you leave behind and its becoming tricker to do.

Ebola is a incurable and statistically fatal disease, but it is being made worse by people wanting to see their families and friends before their will likely expire. This behavior places infected persons in communities and situations where proper care and quarantine may not be available therefore the disease has spread. People acting in their own self interest when confronting their mortality is nothing new. We'd likely all do the same.

Maybe we need to start treating this outbreak we fight wildfires. Start digging a proverbial fire line. Setting broad travel restrictions and geographical quarantines and hope that the virus fades away over time. Of course this is cruel and inhumane to people with the disease not to mention impractical to implement physically over such a wide area because people inside any area would rush out possibly taking the virus with them.
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Indeed, my 'theory' comment was a response to an infected case arriving on an airplane - which this is news story is an example of.

I'm only aware of these cases (are there others?) Hence, I used theory until you've had a few more occurrences.

The first link in the previous comment documents:

1) 1996 a man in Gabon travelling to Johannesburg and he didn't infect anyone.

2) 2004, a man with Lassa fever, similar to Ebola, travelling to the US and not infecting anyone.
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Is there anyway to describe the PolynomialSplineFunction[1], or any other spline function in java, by a single formula [y = f(x)]?

[1] http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/apidocs/org/apache/commons/math3/analysis/polynomials/PolynomialSplineFunction.html
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I agree with you, but I am not sure about this:

P(A) * P(Not A) * P(Not A) = P(Not A) * P(Not A) * P(A)

P(A) > P(Not A) * P(Not A) * P(A)

Also, of course these are not independent events: if a plane has an accident for some reason, all the future flights take extra measures to avoid the problem that caused the accident and other related problems.
This actually looks like a pretty interesting idea. "Turnkey private cloud" might be attractive. Especially if they sell the Open Source/we teach you/you're independent part well.

Could potentially sell like hotcakes in Europe if they play the NSA-angle.

I can also envision a very sweet secondary market (partner with an open source ERP for example)
stop calling it marketing.

when you make breakfast in the morning, does anyone in the world know about it? probably not until you post a picture to Facebook.

same rules apply to your game. tell some friends to play it, if they like it then they will share it.
Because even Coase himself showed that his theorem is BS in real life situations: "In this 1960 paper, Coase argued that real-world transaction costs are rarely low enough to allow for efficient bargaining and hence the theorem is almost always inapplicable to economic reality."
In general, but the correlation isn't perfect. E.g. compare Toledo, Ohio to Toledo, Spain. http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2010/022110.html

Some places will have much more green area just because they have much more open space, or empty areas. A more compact or older city will have less space, less green area. But not necessarily because poverty.
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To start with, certain types of insults, when done at the workplace, deny workers their civil rights under various laws, including Title VII. A workplace could be sued for allow a hostile workplace should this occur. Even if it's the most profitable company in the US. Hence the question cannot be framed as a balance between "largest free collaborative dev known to man .. generated squillions" vs. "make some friends".

To have a real discussion then requires a finer nuance of what "insult" means. Verbal abuse includes "scolding, yelling, swearing, blaming, insulting, threatening, demeaning, ridiculing, criticizing, belittling" (see http://journals.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/AJP/3768/... ). That paper, which looked at verbal abuse of children, concluded "Parental verbal aggression was a potent form of maltreatment. Exposure to multiple forms of abuse was associated with very large effect sizes [comparable to those associated with witnessing domestic violence or nonfamilial sexual abuse]."

The references for the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_incivility is one place to start. For example, the abstract for http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=880458 is:

> Obnoxious behaviour has become endemic in the workplace. Some of the worst offences are: not turning off mobile phones in meetings; leaving a jammed printer, gossiping, and snapping at coworkers. Yet, it is this small stuff that relentlessly grinds down collegial working relationships. Incivility is at the low end of the continuum of workplace abuse. Workplace incivility is not violence or harassment or even open conflict, although it can build up to any of those things. Links between the work environment and indicators of employee loyalty, commitment, and productivity show this is not a “fluff” issue. In addition, a recent study on workplace incivility reveals that rude employees and managers can cost a company millions of dollars a year. This paper will look at a definition of incivility in the workplace, the causes of poor behaviour, the costs to organizations, and what employers can do to help.

You may also be interested in "Sticks and Stones The Philosophy of Insults" by
Jerome Neu.

I bring this up to point out you have not succeeded in being a devil's advocate. My response is not part of a dialog testing the original hypothesis but instead is only criticism in the way you structured your question.
I'm really curious how you manage the load balancing. Are you using CoreOS's elb mailgun walk through?
The most striking thing is the number of downvoted gray comments. Probably 10% of them are like that, at the moment!

It kind of gets distracting when so many are like that. With that many being grayed out, I know a lot of them aren't obvious commercial spam or anything like that. So I end up trying to read them all, which of course is awkward because of how they've been grayed out.
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I suggest submitting this as a "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/show

See also the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
You just shouted :). Anyway, from your description, I have no idea what kind of game it is. That makes me less likely to download it. Platformer? Action? Puzzler?

Kudos for making really free game with no permissions. That made me actually download it and try.
> This is why I'm very interested in constructed languages

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Yes, I was paid for them. I was expecting the numbers to be corrected in the weeks to follow, which occasionally happens during strange activity. However, it was nearly a year ago, nothing happened, and the money arrived in my account.
>> It's just that the behavior we see in the universe suggests that galaxies, clusters of galaxies, clusters of clusters, etc. contain more matter than we are able to detect, since if they contained only the matter visible to us their gravitational behavior would be different.

I've often wondered about this(and don't know any physicists so would really love some insight on this), why do we assume that there's additional matter rather than question whether our models are correct at that scale?
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The first problem you identify leads into the second. This is Africa. The same reason you can't quarantine and dispose of medical waste is the same reason you can't set travel restrictions and the like.
The authors of the study are claiming it as an emission line, but not all emission lines come from transitions of electrons. Some come from changes in quantum rotation states (e.g., some molecular transitions), rotation-vibration states (other molecular transitions), or flips in the spin direction of electrons (the famous hydrogen 21cm line). In this case, the authors have not found known lines from molecules or atoms which would correspond to this energy.

The suggestion of dark energy comes from some theories where postulated dark matter particles can annihilate if they hit another dark matter particle. In these theories, the result is emission of high energy photons with an energy which is related to the mass of the individual dark matter particle. Basically E=mc^2. So it is still an emission line, but not one that arises from an election transition in an atom or molecule.
Thank you all for your help! I feel that joining this community was indeed pretty helpful :D. Keep up the good work guys :)
yes but its like a distinct "industrial" subculture I don't use my birth (black country) dialect at work and online.
Reading this that does sound very useful, are there any helpful HNers that know of a similar *NIX solution?
Yes, if it interacts with photons it means that it's not "dark". But the problem is that atomic physics is awfully well travelled, the chances that we've "missed an orbital" somewhere in a conventional material seems slim (or at least it does to the authors -- I'm not an expert).

So a novel photon interaction in intergalactic space would be huge news even if it doesn't map directly to dark matter.
>We can't build a collider bigger than the surface of the earth TODAY.

Yeah, I'm sure the processor that so eloquently addressed tons of issues in his interview also knew that. The thing is the possibility of doing it tomorrow is not that big either. We are more like to regress or kill everybody (from nuclear war to bacterial resistance), than to conquer the universe. And even if we did fan out to the Solar system planets, the logistics stil look bad for us. Plus, some things we investigate approach physical limits, so no amount of "larger colliders" or "more energy" will help us with those.

>That "we already know everything about the world" had been said for long.

There's nothing about saying something and being wrong for a long time that precludes it eventually being true.

Plus, it's not like we actually have said that "we know everything about the world" for a long time. Most societies, from ancient Egypt to Greece, to medieval times and renessaince and so one, believed there are tons of mysteries to be solved and things to be explained, and worked on finding things out. Yes, even the during the so called "dark ages" (mediaval times) they did that, math and other kind of sciences, from medicine to cartography, was practiced strongly even then. The common misconception about those ages thinking "they know everything" is just an old wives tale -- often just based on the sayings of some fundamendalists.
It was hard to find the restart button. I tried all three buttons on my phone, tapped all corners and spaces between. Maybe some hint that I have to press pause first?

The wall of text in the beginning is too long for most people and the main character could move somewhat faster.

That being said, the game looks very nice.
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Exactly. ...here's the table for command accesses on DDR4, including the mode register you referred to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM#Command_encoding
You're actually demonstrating my point. That study is about an actualy Australian Aboriginal group, but the above commenters talk about nameless tribes in Africa. This is a common pattern in folk-anthropology where genuine cultural findings from field studies get overinterpreted, confused with other studies, elaborated and mythologized to the point where members of mysterious hypothetical African tribes have superhuman abilities to always know which way is North.
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>Setting broad travel restrictions

There is an "African" border near me. Its got a fence - which is impressive. The fence does double duty as a washing line and is about waist high.
Yes but you need to understand the culture your swearing in or you come across as the dumb outsider aka the "Sheriff J.W. Pepper"

Its like a non German using humour to break the ice at a meeting - never going to go well.