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> But that's not what actually happened, as far as I can see; Linus' post on the GCC bug tracker appears to have gotten the GCC developers to pay attention to the bug, not to ridicule Linus for using nice language on their bug tracker but insulting language on his own mailing list.

The 'ridicule' I was referring to is this firestorm of a thread: the mere fact that we are even talking about this on HackerNews (and the wider Internets) and that a large majority of the commenters here agree with me that it was, in fact, deserving of ridicule.

> Whether or not that difference is also "the difference between right and wrong" is one of the points at issue;

Whether one can [in his own reasoning] get all the way to 'wrong' from 'adolescent, silly & childish' is really quite a minor issue to me. But, I think it's pretty obvious to most adults that it was in fact pretty adolescent, silly & childish (i.e., socially under-developed) and that's enough for me.

Further, if I had to choose one form of overly adolescent behavior, it would be the fun type coming from 'brogrammers' and startup culture rather than this trite anti-social and uber-negative poison from 'hardcore Linux(TM) hackers' (but I can certainly understand that this is merely a preference of mine in particular).
The name.

http://i.imgur.com/DvyNzY3.jpg
That's like saying we won't run out of oil because we are producing carbon and oxygen... if it's not in useful form, it's perfectly sensible to say that no new fuel is being produced.
Referring to ubasute[0].Seems more to be an aspect of folklore and popular culture than an actual practice, although it has made for the premise of a good film [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Narayama_(1958_fi...
A few days ago I commented about how an HN title had made me expect that the Amazon 3D printing store was 3D printing as a service, which alas, it is not.

The mods changed the title, which in that case made it less misleading, but they didn't leave any comment to say what the old title was. My comment no longer made any sense, and because a few hours had passed, I couldn't edit it to add a footnote for confused readers (and plus, I couldn't remember the precise wording of the original title).

I can understand why the titles are sometimes changed and most of the time I think it's for the better (although this time I agree it was a bad choice). What I would like to see added is a changelog feature, so that whenever the mods change a title, a footnote appears directly below the summary, before comments, showing who changed the title, what it had been, and optionally the reason it was changed.
Says the creator of a premined coin (Ethereum).
We're a little different in that we actually send you everything you need to make the dish (minus salt, pepper & olive oil). Forage would be considerably less valuable to me if I still had to make the trek to the grocery store and deal with all the waste that goes along with that.
Stellar shills are downvoting you, lol.
Bitcoin also requires trust, specifically the trust that miners will not collude to double spend.

There is also nothing fundamental about the idea of issuing coins as a reward for mining. It's just one possibility among many, there's nothing intrinsically "fair" about it.
Take a look at https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_What_are_the_fees_for_a_transa.... The short answer is that each transaction burns 10 microstellar, and they haven't smoothed out all of the display issues in the hosted client yet, hence the surprise.
Tracking Lobbyist Spending in 2014
What does it really cost to open an indie studio?
Smaller city means less dense. I missed that at first.
Documentary about astronaut Story Musgrave
I'd be surprised if that's true. I signed up with my fake FB account and it worked just fine. The account is a complete spammy mess so if they are attempting that, they are not doing a very good job. I would say more likely no new accounts allowed and that's it...
Played with the beta for only 10 min but I was impressed with it. Easier and faster than Illustrator. Felt much less buggy than Sketch 3. AI file compatibility is a concern but looks very promising.
> I'd really like to see more transparency when it comes to title changes

So would I. Last time I mentioned this I got my head bit off (that's how it's always been!!). I don't care. It could AND SHOULD be better and WILL be if we demand it.
The email estimation seems off by several orders of magnitude. If you follow the link in the IEEE article, you get this:

> It's estimated that the average size of an email is 75 kilobytes. Say we decide that 75 kb average is way off the mark and bump it up to 200 kilobytes per email times 144.8 billion emails per day times 365 days per year and were at just under 10.6 terabytes per year (3 of those Seagate drives will do the trick).

But doing that math myself results in:

200 000 * 144 800 000 000 * 365 = 1.05 * 10^19

In other words, 10 exabytes. 1,000,000 times more than 10 TB. So, 3,000,000 Seagate drives, not 3.
I bailed at the first page after the registration screen when I couldn't get any further due to the facebook requirement. I don't have a facebook account, who in tech has a facebook account these days?

I just find it strange that a supposedly forward-thinking new platform would require technology most people I know abandoned last decade. You don't appeal to early-adopters by requiring they use dead-tech.
Total guess, but:

Depression and anger are linked, and when I've been depressed it's often manifested as anger at myself. Sometimes, finding an outside focal point for anger can offer relief from depression. It is easier to find a focal point for anger that other people share, and war can be a common enemy for a large population.
A Valuable Reputation – Syngenta's Atrazine and Tyrone Hayes
The problem here is that the Ars article was better. It was better written and had additional information.

The original article was poorly written and harder to follow.

I would arguably say you made the front page worse by switching the link.
I convinced Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan to invest $86M in my startup. AMA
A whitelabel product is one that you can replace all the branding with your own. [e.g. Amazon's new Route 53 domain registration is really Gandi.net under the hood but it has the AWS branding, not Gandi.net branding]
If you're looking for a Windows alternative, Xara is still hanging around.
> But, there are also things you can get mediocre at best if you put in excessively lot of time. Those are not worth trying to do professionally, although hobby is another matter.

Or maybe not. Quite often, a mediocre competency on something (or several things) is necessary for applying your incredibly good competence in anotehr thing.
CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers
Shopping and prepping ingredients for cooking is not actually difficult...

A more apt analogy would be: using this service is like installing WordPress and a pre-built theme; prepping your own ingredients is like learning to make an HTML website from scratch.
Thanks to both of you for your explanations. I think I'm beginning to understand it, though it I find it far more comprehensible when considered in the context of a gold-backed dollar than fiat.
Using China as an example of the ills of free markets sounds like a bad joke.
Not keeping sensitive data in Dropbox.
PHP developers specifically took into consideration RAII when designing the language. This is why the finally clause for exceptions was not originally part of the language -- it was unnecessary for cleanup if you have RAII. Cycles don't really affect RAII in meaningful way.
I'm biased: I work for rackspace and fucking love OnMetal - I think it's the near perfect blend of API driven booting of bare metal servers I've seen. Last time I booted a High I/O instance it came up in 2.5 minutes. And the price / performance is a sweet spot.
French Cellphone Carrier Iliad Makes Offer for T-Mobile US, but Is Turned Down
Storing my passwords in the cloud means it's already got one mark against it. What does it do to make make for that?
They were awesome, now they give comcast like speed for youtube, apple app store update, google play store update. And there mobile offer is the worst of all.
Totally agree! I'd be really interested to see how pricing between the two services compares.
The trouble with crowdfunding: ignoring Ritot's red flags
can anyone briefly explain the difference between this and something like ripple?
Could someone explain to me what the deal with the ISPs would look like? What does the deal accomplish? I don't understand because I think the content would always have to come from their CDN if that's where it's hosted. Are the deals meant to ensure the shortest trajectory to their CDN network?
The great paradox of this is that it will almost certainly cost China money. Even if you don't care about health, increased sickness and death rates are very bad for business. Even if you don't care about poor people, this will certainly shorten everyone's lives so long as they ever walk outside.
Agreed ... the title mentioning a guy using LIDAR (and Science!) to dispute a traffic ticket is completely different from a title that says "here's how LIDAR works". I agree, some transparency, or at least a history of previous titles, would be helpful.

Hell, lots of times I'll load 10 HN threads in my browser, to read later ... and then later when I get to them I refresh to start with the latest comments, look at the headline, and think "Um? When did I click on this? And where's that thread about ___? I think I clicked on that before ..."
Remember; that 50$/mo fee was rolled into the product prices before. That's why under the old model a 4gb server cost 1/3 of 4, 1gb boxes. The new pricing lowers the infrastructure prices (and levels them so 1gb of ram == 1gb of ram) but clearly states the support fee as a whole.

Note, the minimum fee only triggers if you use Cloud Servers, or OnMetal.
>The constant screaming and the running, along with chronic exhaustion, produce in him a state of low-level panic, which is also a state of acute focus. It is as if his thinking mind, his doubting and critical and interpreting mind, had shut down and been replaced by a simpler mechanism that serves the body.

This is extreme, however, it strikes me as a mild version of operating a steam locomotive. While undertaking this activity, my brain is occupied with 3 things: How's the water? How's the fire? Are there any hazards ahead? Repeat ad nauseum.

The water level is very critical. Too much, and you'll be piping water through the steam plumbing, which has the potential to be very destructive to the locomotive. Too little, and the structural integrity of the boiler could be compromised.

The fire is the life of the locomotive. Too much coal can snuff out the fire. Too little coal and you may run out of fuel. Too much fire wastes fuel and water; too little, and there will not be enough power to move the train. With the small models I operate, there is always a hand pump to put water into the boiler, but on a full size locomotive, it's possible to be in a situation where you don't have enough steam power to put more water into the boiler, and as I mentioned before, if the water level gets too low, the structural integrity of the boiler could be compromised.

A brain busy with the above tasks may fail to notice a train stalled on the tracks ahead, which could cause a collision.

I often think of operating a model steam locomotive as a state of nirvana. This is an exaggerated notion, but who could be troubled when the fire's too hot, the water's running low, see anything of concern up ahead? And by the way, how's that water level?

My point is that I think the monks might be on to something.
Package management and dependency management in JavaScript
Looking forward to participating! I will be speaking on visualisation techniques for lean startup teams on Aug 8. I think that this is a great way to foster conversations and cultivate new ideas.
Indeed. So there has to be a way to fairly and logically kill something someone presumably loves whilst also making sure original content is protected.

Let's get on this everyone has some spare time.
It's like an Entertainment Tonight rumor mill for techies.

Interesting that Snapchat hires the head of Google App Engine to migrate off of Google App Engine.
It can even mean that Apple has hardware in the ISP's POP, so there are no hops between the ISP and Apple's hardware -- a direct connection, if you will.
No. I am using my ISP's DNS servers obtained through DHCP.

Also I have no problems with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon instant video, etc.

EDIT: Before anybody suggests that I try different DNS servers, I have.
So when other methods are introduced will those of us that signed up on day 1 but don't have facebook accounts still be eligible for the giveaway and for the same amount?
A chilling story about Syngenta, the makers of atrazine (second most-used herbicide in the United States), and Tyrone Hayes, a Berkeley professor of biology whose research had shown atrazine to disrupt the sexual development of frogs. Hayes considered himself an outsider in the scientific community, and some of his beliefs that Syngenta was pursuing him began to seem outlandish, only to be shown true. I will let some quotes speak for the article:

"Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, and during that time scientists around the world have expanded on his findings, suggesting that the herbicide is associated with birth defects in humans as well as in animals. The company documents show that, while Hayes was studying atrazine, Syngenta was studying him, as he had long suspected. Syngenta’s public-relations team had drafted a list of four goals. The first was “discredit Hayes.” In a spiral-bound notebook, Syngenta’s communications manager, Sherry Ford, who referred to Hayes by his initials, wrote that the company could “prevent citing of TH data by revealing him as noncredible.” He was a frequent topic of conversation at company meetings. Syngenta looked for ways to “exploit Hayes’ faults/problems.” “If TH involved in scandal, enviros will drop him,” Ford wrote. She observed that Hayes “grew up in world (S.C.) that wouldn’t accept him,” “needs adulation,” “doesn’t sleep,” was “scarred for life.” She wrote, “What’s motivating Hayes?—basic question.”"

and

"Another set of ideas, discussed at several meetings, was to conduct “systematic rebuttals of all TH appearances.” One of the company’s communications consultants said in an e-mail that she wanted to obtain Hayes’s calendar of speaking engagements, so that Syngenta could “start reaching out to the potential audiences with the Error vs. Truth Sheet,” which would provide “irrefutable evidence of his polluted messages.”"

also

"In another paper, in Policy Perspective, Jason Rohr, an ecologist at the University of South Florida, who served on an E.P.A. panel, criticized the “lucrative ‘science for hire’ industry, where scientists are employed to dispute data.” He wrote that a Syngenta-funded review of the atrazine literature had arguably misrepresented more than fifty studies and made a hundred and forty-four inaccurate or misleading statements, of which “96.5% appeared to be beneficial for Syngenta.” Rohr, who has conducted several experiments involving atrazine, said that, at conferences, “I regularly get peppered with questions from Syngenta cronies trying to discount my research. They try to poke holes in the research rather than appreciate the adverse effects of the chemicals.” He said, “I have colleagues whom I’ve tried to recruit, and they’ve told me that they’re not willing to delve into this sort of research, because they don’t want the headache of having to defend their credibility.”"
Perhaps anyone can explain me why Lidar is not dangerous to sight?

Whenever you see anyone working with lasers they'd wear protective glasses. Now I realise Lidar uses infrared wavelength which is not visible to us, but that does not mean it's not dangerous, or does it?
I find it strange for Apple, since they are an early investor and customer in Akamai.
I know that Mac users are very sensitive towards all cross-platform and non-native UI toolkits. I have always wondered why I haven't seen many complaints about the Adobe non-native UI on Mac. So, its interesting to hear that it does feel a bit wrong.
Sometimes the pattern only exists in data writ large.

For example, a particular merchant is breached, and then the fraudsters try to run most of the cards stolen in that breach at a few locations.

It could be obvious on your bank's end that a few dozen customers made a charge at Store A and then reported a charge at Store B to be fraudulent, so then they decided to freeze the cards of everyone with the same Store A -> Store B pattern.
We're well beyond my physics knowledge here. (See IANAP above!) So, I have questions.

Is momentum the only type of energy a photon has?

By allegory: Suppose a cannonball can be red hot, or cool. Separately, it can be flying or at rest. So, there are four cannonball types: hf, hr, cf, and cr.

The hot, flying cannonball has the most energy and the cool, resting cannonball has the least. Yet, the momentum of both flying cannonballs is equal--temperature is orthogonal.

Is all that right?

If it is, then... I thought photons contain some energy that is similarly orthogonal to momentum.

...I guess I don't recall learning that, so maybe I just made it up. But, I have seen videos of laser pointers that can burn paper--they don't seem to have recoil. If the energy that is burns that paper is ... momentum, then I've clearly misunderstood the SCALE of mechanical energy vs. thermal energy. But if the thermal (or something?!) energy is ... separate, then... Well, then we're back to the original point: most of the energy you use to create a photon isn't translated into momentum, so light isn't the propellant you're looking for.

NB I don't have a comment about the microwave chamber other than "NFW.".
A Lego wedding
> this has pretty much always been around.

Yep, the difference now is that it's less predictable. In the past if you were a part of the existing power structure you could expect to be safe, even if the political landscape changed under your feet. For example, plenty of powerful white men held pro-segregationist views in the 60's and recanted in the 80's without getting blacklisted.

In constrast, those outside the power structure were not safe. Any views or actions from the past could be resurrected to get them fired or worse when the landscape changed. The beginning of the Hollywood blacklist, for example, was as much about getting rid of Russian Jews as it was about finding communists.

Now it seems that nobody is safe and our political landscape is changing more quickly than ever. That makes it more frightening to step out, especially for those of us like myself (white guys) who had previously been protected implicitly.
When a candidate presents himself for training, he must prostrate himself and declare that he is willing to do anything that needs to be done to solve the great matter of life and death. By tradition, he is scowled at by the head monk, who orders him to leave. He persists, he continues to prostrate himself, and after two or three days he is taken in.

Apprentice monks are treated like slaves on a brutal plantation. They must follow orders and never say no. They sleep very little. They rise at four. Most of the time they eat only a small amount of rice and, occasionally, pickles (fresh vegetables and meat are forbidden). There is no heat, even though it can be very cold on the mountain, and the monks wear sandals and cotton robes.

I often wondered where Chuck Palahniuk got some of his ideas for Fight Club
No turning back: Russia activates Crimean cable
If the microwave chamber is sealed air tight, they might need to construct a special one before they can test it in vacuum. But yes, they should get on that!
So let us make a few distinctions. NEET =/= Hikikomori. Hikikomori tend to be a subset of NEET, as long as they are not employed. However, most NEET (not in education, employment, or training) would certainly not be Hikikomori. Hikikomori are the edge case, so only those who have no hopes of moving towards employment AND no desire for external interactions with society will likely be Hikikomori.

The preoccupation with Hikikomori began in the 90s, when someone made the now infamous claim that there were roughly a million Hikikomori in Japan, setting off an alarm. That seems to have been a gross overestimate, but it put the term in the popular lexicon. More recent studies offer more conservative and more realistic estimates.

It just so happens that the popular view of Hikikomori is that they tend to be very focused on specific subcultures, so in particular they are commonly characterized as Otaku (although there would be Hikikomori who are not Otaku and most Otaku are not Hikikomoris, etc.). These characterizations (hikikomori as someone obsessed with a particular pasttime/lifestyl, and hikikomori as extreme NEET) have generally formed the basis for the Hikimori as it is sometimes portrayed in anime.
Are things any different anywhere else?

Our hunting-gathering days are over. We used to chop down wood for the fire; now, we go to work, and push a button on the wall to stay warm.

To work is to live in modern society.
The A in laser (Amplification) really should be an O for Oscillation. You can work out the rest...
Does anyone else wonder if pushed for more effort towards QA/Security and was bounced out because of it?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/snapchat-is-too-arrogant-to-fix-...

http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/5-ways-snapch...
I'm really excited about this (I talked to Jed a few months ago, before joining CloudFlare).

I think there will need to be a strong client wallet, rather than just the web client, but that's obvious, and the web client was an easy place to start.

I'd really like to see how one would integrate chaumian blinded tokens into this. I may be an outlier in thinking unlinkability and anonymity are critical for "real currencies" over time, but I think recent events have shown this to be correct.

I liked Ripple 1.0; Ripple-of-today not as much, so since this seems to be basically Ripple 1.0 plus some lessons learned, it should be interesting.
Isn't China's air pollution from the government-built coal power plants, not the free market?
If dang is concerned about the noise being caused by users complaining about the effect of certain actions (either by mods or users,) that could probably be cleared up in the UI. Something as simple as an asterisk or an automatically generated note mentioning whether a mod changed a title or user flags killed a story would possibly clear up confusion.

Although the logical outcome of this would be some kind of graph generated for each thread that plots upvotes, downvotes, mod actions, user edits etc. over time but that would be insane...
To the people saying this is not a problem, it is. In particular, iMessage seems to often get confused when trying to send a picture. The progress bar will get to half or even mostly full, and then just pause ...forever.

It's not a connection issue. On several occasions after running into this iMessage issue, I have emailed the picture full-res without problems.

That said, I don't think iMessage is terrible. I love it when it works as expected.
Well, that about wraps it up for US companies in Europe. Well done.

I wonder if Ireland can prosecute Microsoft if they do hand over the data without a local warrant.
Ask HN: How far can one go without a real product? (MVP/landing page)
Hi
Curious about how far can one get without a real product or user base. Just with a MVP/landing page? Are there any examples where they got funding or got accepted in YC,etc. in that early stage?