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however the word of someone claiming they personally are being marginalized and victimized should generally be given more weight than someone else claiming that that person isn't.

No it absolutely should not, and the applications that we've seen when this framework of thought is proof enough of what happens when we give the victim more legal weight than the accused.

Title IX is a perfect example of this flawed implementation of "justice" to the point where the victims receive all the benefits of due process, but the accused does not. Taking the victim at their word is preposterous and absolutely and wholly contrary to the way our legal framework was designed, and ought to work:

Quote:
"OCR’s language implies
that the rights of accused students at public colleges do not merit lengthy
discussion and further suggests by negative implication that accused have any rights at all.57 The Letter also states that “[w]hen taking steps to
separate the complainant and alleged perpetrator, a school should
minimize the burden on the complainant, and thus should not, as a matter
of course, remove complainants from classes or housing while allowing
alleged perpetrators to remain.” In other words, alleged perpetrators
should automatically suffer life-upending punishments like expulsion from
their residences upon accusation because they are likely guilty. The
writing on the wall from this treatment of due process rights is
unmistakable: it implies, “oddly and ominously, that the statutory rights of
the accuser trump the constitutional due-process [sic] rights of the
accused.”"

Source:
"A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENT DEFENDANTS: TITLE IX AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES" (http://chaselaw.nku.edu/content/dam/chaselaw/docs/academics/...) p.61 pp.2 - p62 pp.1

You can absolutely have a civil discourse on how sexism manifests itself in the video game industry and others, and misogynist violence is absolutely never okay. But once we get to the point where conversations depend on giving one person more credence than another simply because of their status, or role in the affair, we're entering very dangerous waters.

One such example of the treacherous possibilities comes from the events of October 2012 at Ohio University where two students publicly engaged in lewd acts, photographs showed the female participant smiling, engaging and interacting with the male participant, and still cried rape to the detriment of the male participant even when local law enforcement could not find evidence to indict;

Source: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2013/11/is_this_a_campus_rap...

No.

No we do NOT give the accuser "more weight".
It's weird they have disabled voting of this story and it also disappeared from the front page(s) had to use history to find it..
A fusion powered 747 might be the result, but
maybe not! Instead, let's see: With the CFR,
we've got dirt cheap electric power. Okay,
then we can also use that power to make dirt cheap,
very clean water. Then, yup, we can take that water,
more of that power, and coal and make jet fuel.
And maybe that is what the 747s would continue to
use! Maybe!
Is anyone here using this in production (besides Hashicorp of course)?

I'd love to hear about how it works with Ansible, Chef, etc. for real deployments. From the docs:

> Terraform is not a configuration management tool, and it allows existing tooling to focus on their strengths: bootstrapping and initializing resources

But configuration management tools can be used for provisioning infrastructure too - is it worth splitting your configuration across multiple tools?
I strongly suspect that they are aiming for the same form factor as the GE LM2500 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM2500. The US Navy likes this form factor, for good reasons.

Note that it converts ~100kW thermal into ~37-47 kW electric. It also has high air flow. I suspect that means that they are aiming to make their fusion reactor small enough that it can replace the burner section of the turbine.

Thermal transfer is still going to be a challenge, unless (Idea!) they are planning on spraying water into the airflow and using heat from neutron moderation in the water to provide primary heat transfer. Hmm, I wonder how much water you would need for 14 MeV neutrons? Let's see, half-value layer is around 10 cm, so if you threw a 40 cm thickness of water across a neutron flux, you'd absorb most of the heat (you could probably catch the rest in the duct casing). That's a lot of water in a pretty small space, but physically possible.

Note that the above is a seat-of-pants calculation and should not be taken as accurate by any means.
Yes, I think it's the narrow width and especially the inconsistent layout. You have a header, then a button, then a bold sentence, then a paragraph, then a box with bold text, then a header, then a paragraph with an image stuck in the middle... it's all over the place. I recommend going for a small number of simple header+paragraph sections.
> (eg patients being treated by large numbers of medical staff seems to be the norm in the US).

Treating knowledge workers as assembly line workers might be great for the bottom line, but at the cost of making the organization impossible to adapt to changing conditions.

In this case, it's practically equivalent to sending your troops marching ahead in neat lines (Napoleon style) against a bunch of machine gun nests.

...oh well, I guess I am preaching to the choir here.
Seems like a travel scanner or something attached to the top of a shredder (differing speeds notwithstanding) to image the paper before it got turned into itty bitty pieces would be a little easier.

Really, given how cheap and easy it is to store large amounts of information digitally I'm surprised that something like this isn't common for a lot of cases to reduce storage costs.

How many businesses have rooms full of accounting records and receipts going back decades that could instead be taking up a bit of space in a rack? Toss a copy in Amazon Glacier for a penny a gigabyte so you have something off-site and call it a day.
maybe a mod can change it to "How I validated an Idea on Hacker News"?
Right, I think the threshold for one handed operation is actually closer to the iPhone 3 and once you go past that threshold you might as well go big or go home. People seem to be missing that. And I agree with the GP, you see a lot of girls with Note 3s because they just stick it in their purse or bag.
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I don't believe the story is about how to validate ideas on HN. This is a story about how you had an idea, submitted it to HN, and you got a good reaction. It's simply saying that this idea was validated.

Your story seems to amount to saying that the way to validate an idea on HN is simply to submit it and see if it does well. Your tale is more than that, and deserves a title that better expresses that. Maybe:

I submitted my idea to HN - here's a
blow-by-blow description of what followed.

I'm happy to believe it wasn't intentional, and I wonder if this is a language thing. It's not a big deal, but I thought you could benefit from some feedback. I'm pleased it all went well for you.
Just superficially looking at the syntax, that looks like a great improvement over Autolayout! I'll have to check it out.
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Why use a server-side language developed by Google (Go) as an alternative to JavaScript, when you could use a client-side language developed by Google and intended as an alternative to JavaScript (Dart)?
I think he's saying that in the last few years Google has become extremely thirsty for all king of user data. Their latest Android apps by default send a ton of personal data to the Google servers. E.g. the Android keyboard periodically uploads a list of the hundred most often typed words, unless you go to settings and disable this "feature".
You can change it - hit the "Edit" link.

And it's not about validating an idea - I think that's where we have a mismatch in expectation. You didn't validate it, you submitted it, and it went well. There's a difference.
streamparse appeared after we had put some development into Pyleus and started using it a bit at Yelp.

Future collaboration would be excellent—there's a lot of room for improvement in Storm's support for other languages via its shell components and hopefully our projects can contribute to that.
What is never really can grasp is the conclusion that no new versions equals a dead platform. In the case with WPF(and Silverlight to some degree) the platform is so mature, that one got all the features that is needed to create rich applications, while having a nice developer experience. It`s just done, no need for future versions and fixes, so one can start build things with it instead.

I have(as many others) made the transitions from building WPF/Silverlight applications to HTML/JS and im astonished over how eager the community is it solve the same problem over and over again. It seems like everyone just goes ahead and reimplementing their own solution instead of improving whats already exists.
Every week someone releases a framework, tool etc. thats exactly the same as the five alternatives already existing and often the only difference is that it`s "implemented by us".
And I will not start with NodeJs, 40 frameworks for spinning up an http-server. Congratulations.

So my two cents, long live WPF, the mature framework for creating Windows applications for many, many years to come!( at least in enterprise ;) )
I honestly think that if executed correctly, this will completely replace squarespace, and then possibly wordpress.
Ok, now I see what you mean. I have a clean new design which looks very professional. Just need to fix a few things and I'll put it up shortly.
Personal plug here: I've been tinkering with writing a GUI toolkit along the lines of WPF here: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/. It's obviously very early days and this is as much for my curiosity as to how things could be done differently as setting out to replace WPF, but it may interest some of you...
I appreciate your support, but minimaxir is actually right. This was news to me, and I've been a member of Hacker News for 2768 days. It's in the FAQ, not the guidelines, which is why I missed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I've deleted the offending tweet and won't do it again.
You're absolutely right. Please see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461583.
I suppose "open arms" is now a pun then :)
Worst news ever.

Docker people will spend more time fixing and making bugs due to Microsoft, the documentation will become a mess (it cant possibly be same documentation for that different systems), the Linux-side of docker will be more mediocre compared to what it could have been if all effort went to it.

Remember Internet Explorer 6, Visual Basic, the horror that is Excel and the whole Office suite, Asp.net, Windows Millenium, The attempt to kill Linux by Microsoft through SCO.
Hey! I didn't know that you guys had splits! I stand corrected on that account. And apologies for the misrepresentation. We even signed up for your service when we were doing our research. Was this recent?

You're right about some states having certain laws around this. One of the biggest challenges of working in the US is that every state has a different money transmitting policy and every state has different labour laws.

We hope that even if we step on some toes, that we can move this forward. There are some incredibly cool concepts in how people get paid that Bitcoin could enable. We talked a bit about areas in the Bitcoin ecosystem and payroll in general we think we can push things forward in our launch post: http://blog.incoin.io/introducing-incoin-bitcoin-distributed...
Please correct me if I understood wrong: Passwordless is very different from Persona (BrowserId), in that it uses a (short-lived) bearer token. BrowserId uses asymmetric crypto to prove the ownership of a key.
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Fair enough. That's always been true for advice giving though. People usually don't really know what they're talking about and maybe that's okay. Even if the advice sometimes does more harm than good it's certainly almost always well intentioned and that's gotta count for something. Still, I think it's easy to see a double standard in what you said originally and that's just not fair.

Maybe I have to explain myself a little better. For the sake of this argument let's assume literally every time a women has a problem in this world a man talks to her and tells her what he thinks she should do. What exactly would be wrong with that?
Now you know why MSFT has the largest developer community in the world.

There are endless lists of technologies that do the exact same thing.
There's no way around the rule though, if the communication is ad-hoc it might be better than being dictated by clueless bosses, but everyone is still operating with imperfect information, just at a different level. Witness the chaos of their login systems before the sound of the Google+ battle horn.
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Wow. That is quite the story.

I'm glad you're doing better, both mentally and career-wise!
This is something an intermediate who shouldn't really be answering questions would say.

99%? Not even close. A large majority of unanswered/downvoted questions are HARD questions that people can't answer themselves and opt instead to simply post the first link they found after copying/pasting the question into Google.

Often times when answers aren't accepted because they suck and the poster asks further questions or says they're looking for something more that leads to more downvotes because that's what pisses of the community. Being told they aren't good teachers.

Most people answering questions on Stack Overflow are average students who just want the points by again, posting what they find on Google (which RARELY answers the question) or posting a link to a library without explaining a thing which is also massively unhelpful.

Teachers are what's needed. Not brats on forums.
Certainly not deleted, but they are being given a weak penalty in the hope that only the most HN-appropriate (i.e. intellectually interesting and/or providing significant new information) posts will rise to the top. We take the penalty off when we see one of those, and upvotes can overcome it anyway—the penalty is deliberately weak to allow for that.

Edit: here's an example on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461304.

The intention is not to suppress an important topic but to hold the countless me-too posts at bay—the ones that don't add anything significant. When the massive wave subsides, we'll remove the penalty. For example, there was a period where HN did this for NSA stories, but that hasn't been the case for a while.
its too late, the edit link is gone. i think you are only allowed to edit for 30 minutes or something like that...
I've spent the last 5+ years using subscription models. I'm about done with them. Disappearing content. Inconvenient or no access at times and places. Increasingly feeling I've been funding the very "editing" and abuse I've wanted to escape.

My personal conclusion is that the money would have been better spent just gradually building up my own library. And, were it closer, in supporting my local library.

In other words: Too little, too late, for me.
> That's a stretch, no?

No.

> That is, there are textual glyphs in the visual representation, but the positioning and the other symbols are important to the meaning as well.

The positioning of symbols is important in plaintext too! There is a distinction between the space separating words, versus the space separating paragraphs.

Similarly, all those non-letter symbols are important to the meaning. (Like the parentheses indicating that this is a side comment.)

I'm not sure I understand your argument here -- do you think mathematics would be text if it didn't have superscripts and subscripts?

To some extent you seem to be arguing that because tools for working with mathematical text are currently woefully in adequate, mathematics is not text. But this view seems backwards to me -- surely other languages that are not based on the latin character set had proper tooling developed later?
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My very first impression was that the page hadn't completed loading... I sat there for a few moments expecting some background images, or icons, or something else to flow in.

That's probably just my personal bias, but I guess I'm saying that it feels incomplete to me.
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> all the features that is needed to create rich applications, while having a nice developer experience

I wouldn't say that is true. For example even renaming a Window/UserControl in Visual Studio doesn't work correctly. There are a ton of things that could be improved about WPF, not least (off the top of my head):

* Use Direct2D instead of DirectX9. The renderer used by WPF has been shown to be very inefficient compared to Direct2D.

* Multiple selection is a hack.

* Can't bind data grid column properties.

* BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}" -- eurgh

* How fucking difficult it is to save an image?

* How fucking difficult it is to get an image's pixels (how do you work out Stride?)
True but 75% are under 6' [0]

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That sounds like a lot of manual work.

Put.io has that covered - you can stream any torrent to your TV using a chromecast.
Just did. Thank you!
I'm amazed they got a patent for a traction control system. Wait no I'm not the patent system is fucked.
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My guess is most companies will skip Win8 like they skipped Vista. Windows 10 looks to be what enterprise will rally around.

But for fat applications, what's your alternative? Java is, at best, parity with something like WinRT but can't leverage the benefits that MS can bring to users with its native platform (assuming a big, MS-centric enterprise). WPF, as we've already said, isn't going to get any more of the pie. Let's not kid ourselves about Winforms or platforms that haven't even embraced data binding.

In the meantime, you can't cross off Xamarin as a means to bring these WinRT applications to even more device types.
Given enough constraints on the development environment, WPF can turn out to be the best choice.

Those constraints are usually as follows:

- Our developers cannot use anything not written and distributed by Microsoft, and can use only our existing licenses.

- The end users will not have full administrative control over their workstations. They might not be able to install a Java VM, Flash, Silverlight, or even a browser other than the version of IE that came with their OS.

This sort of environment is depressingly common in the government contracting sector. When your choices are WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, Excel macros, or Access database, the first option seems pretty attractive. And this is especially relevant when the documentation from Microsoft promotes a model-view-viewmodel design pattern for WPF applications. That's a great way to get people who haven't read a single paragraph about best practices since graduation to step boldly into a new decade, even if it is not the one the rest of us currently live in.
I am a Microsoft fan but my thinking recently is like this: why WPF => why Windows => why Microsoft? If crappy HTML5 and JS are their agenda, then what's the point sticking to their ecosystem?
Proof by anecdote, n=2.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that two stories have little statistical significance, if any at all. Taking life decisions based on such information is, in my eyes, unjustified.
same problem here.
Almost bought an OUYA two weeks ago. The only thing I could think when I saw that controller is that I'm glad I waited.
I was told 3 or 4 years ago by a Microsoft MPV that WPF was effectively in maintenance mode with only a single guy working on it.

A shame, because it's probably the best UI framework I've used. I liked it much better than HTML.
Does that $4.5 billion sound really small to anyone?

So basically this means that Apple can fund a dozen settlements on Mars, and their yearly profit would likely be able to sustain those dozen settlements with spare parts and supplies?

In 2005 dollars, the Apollo program cost $170 billion. So yeah, $4.5 billion sounds pretty small relatively speaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_cost
Bottom line to a question like this is "it depends". Define yourself in advance what your hoped for return on investment is. eg new users, new investor leads, contacts, new hires, press, the story etc. And see how you perform against your benchmarks. I ran a small startup in London once that paid to pitch at Techcrunch startup alley in SF. Well it led indirectly to my startup getting acquired and moved from London to SF where i live now. So it was worth it, but that value didnt directly come from the conference. Had I not gone though, i'd not have made the contacts that led to this journey..good luck!
Wow. I'm completely floored at how deep this person got into the world of phones. I was also obsessed with phones for a while, and consider my ears my favored input channel, but I didn't take 10 steps to this guy's marathon. Memorizing tons of specific rings and dialtones, recognizing weird audio quirks of specific switches, etc. This is amazing. No matter what you study, there always seems to be as much detail as you have the time and energy to appreciate.
Yeah, all that had crossed my mind too, thanks for your comment on that. The reason I took this position was largely influenced by the fact I'd have a life. Having a commuting reduction from 2 hours each way to 20 minutes each way has made a huge difference in my quality of life. It's just that now I'd like to try to get more, and I'm in a better position to focus more time on getting myself up to a higher level(rather than fighting for a seat on mass transit).
yeah, i felt i was developing it too. marijuana was really, really not good for me. http://reddit.com/r/leaves really helped me quit.
One should not confuse the IDE with the technology, but I'd agree that the Visual Studio integration with WPF (although amazing in theory) feels constantly buggy - even after years of work.
Obviously that would imply a system which contains a similar distributive growth that contains the confounding variable and the strong coupling of it to other elements in the whole. Then we could redefine the selection of elements and interrelations and like it again.
for $650, i'll pass...unless nexus 6 can answer my emails for me.
It of course depends on the doctor. My experience is that if I go to the local Sansum Urgent Care with the symptoms you describe (which I have done often) it is impossible to not leave with a prescription for antibiotics, even if the doctor and I both agree I probably have something that will get better on its own and will not likely be helped by antibiotics :/.

A couple weeks ago, I walked into a tree and got a tiny scrape on my forehead, and just wanted to know if there was anything special I should do to minimize scarring: the doctor largely ignored my questions (giving me really useless answers) and instead did a swab to check for staph and then wrote me a script for an antibiotic that I should take if I saw any changes... and the stuff she listed was stuff I'm certain many people would just panic and assume were happening :/.

Hell: I'll up the ante here, and say that if I get this one guy when I go, a doctor I like to call "Dr. Happy Pills", not only will he try to get me to start taking antibiotics, he will also try to get me to start taking steroids (whether oral prednisone or an inhalable version), and will refuse to let me leave until he's found enough free samples of some random form of steroid in the office to feel like he's "helped" me :/.