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There is no logic to the system, the only purpose it serves that I can tell is to make the owner wealthy by selling squares on a grid.

It makes me think of the million pixel homepage:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

In concept it's the same model, but for a map.
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Nice idea but this will require users to install your app right. I also created a qr code customize website maybe you can utilize it in some manner: http://www.qrunched.com
Ignoring things rarely makes them go away and usually ends up causing cognitive dissonance. The primary issue with remote-based crimes is that they may cause the victim to become emotionally unstable because of the dualistic state forced upon them. Someone saying you are a bad person, and enough of their cronies saying it as well, can leave a lasting impression on the most resilient of us, even if we believe we're awesome inside.

I had a troll attack me on Twitter last week. No clue what his motive was, but the topic in question was Bitcoin related. He attempted to escalate the conversation by asking if I liked Obama. Instead of replying to this leading question, I took about 5 minutes to do a whois on his domain, find his name, find a few posts about him attacking others on a Bitcoin forum, and publicly DM'd him the links making the observation that he didn't appear to be a trustworthy source for levying blame. Never heard back from him.

We all have a choice on how we handle blamers. Becoming a blamer ourselves when dealing with them will only serve to increase the suffering related to the relationship. I encourage others to learn more about non-violet communications and learn to wield the power of the pen when it comes down to confronting and combatting these poor types of behaviors.
On the other hand, the same is not true of other countries, and it'd be weird to leave Dutch out just because they have more proficiency. The marginal cost is not that great.
As a substitute for:

10 Downing Street
London, UK

... I see your point. However, as a substitute for:

Latitude: 51.503363
Longitude: -0.127625

... I would argue that "slurs.this.shark" is a significant improvement. (plus it's mildly entertaining!)
Except that there is no way to scale assembly. You write every instruction. There are no companies that offer prewritten assembly for different common functions. Toga vendors offer all sorts of ip.

Understanding assembly and choosing to develop with assembly are two different things.

I see absolutely no correlation between learning assembly and learning verilog. They are about as orthogonal as you can get.
> 1. Does IMPORT TABLE mean that it has to copy data from MySQL Database into its own storage or does it merely mean it will connect to the MySQL db and query it directly?

It will only connect to the MySQL database and won't copy any data into it's own storage. The SQL query will be pushed down into the MySQL database and the chart will be rendered from the result set that is returned by MySQL database (or other external storage system).

> 2. If it is a long query (e.g. a 60 second query), does FnordMetric server cache previous results?

Not yet but this is on the roadmap. (Pull Requests always welcome!)
So what, if anything, is proposed that we do about anonymous trolls? Just malign all discussion and criticism of a subject or person? How will that enable us to eliminate the harassers out of a community?

I was asking what exactly the harassment was because Randi provided no in-depth explanation of what exactly the harassment the people she named received, and then just blamed it on GamerGate. I'm familiar with some of the harassment of Anita, but not all. Didn't mean to belittle the claims of harassment. Blanket generalizations without proof, however, I'm fine with pointing out as dishonest. None of that harassment directed towards Anita is GamerGate.

From the article:

>I’m in the gaming industry now, so this was doubly relevant to my interests. I was naive enough to think that if I provided enough context about my background to counter the main tactics that the GamerGate supporters were using against Anita, Zoe, and Brianna, that they might listen.
It's hardly 'long-forgotten'...

From Körner's book 'Fourier Analysis' (CUP, 1988):

"[...] Kelvin ... designed and built a ... machine (the harmonic analyser) to perform the task 'which seemed to the Astronomer Royal so complicated and difficult that no machine could master it' of computing the coefficients from the record of the past height [of tides].

Kelvin's harmonic analyser has a good claim to be the grandfather of today's computers not only because he obtained government money to build it but also because it represents the first major victory in the struggle 'to substitute brass for brain' in calculation. It is pleasant to record that Kelvin's instruments were so well adapted to their purpose that it took electronic computers 20 years to replace them.' - p.30-1

and

'We have seen ... how Kelvin invented machines which could compute periodic functions from their Fourier series and conversely obtain the Fourier series of a given periodic function. One such machine was constructed by Michelson to work to a higher accuracy and to involve many more terms that previous models. (Michelson's ability to build and operate equipment to new standards of accuracy was legendary. Of his interferometer which he invented and used in the Michelson Morley experiments it was said that it was a remarkable instrument - provided you had Michelson to operate it. His experiments to measure the diameter of the nearest stars using an interferometer were not reproduced for 30 years.)" - p.62
That's not actual chocolate, that's cocoa flavored sugar
Basically, you want a formal proof that "bad behavior plays a significant causal role in keeping women out of tech" is a valid hypothesis?

While scientifically interesting, I don't see the utillity for that, honestly. Do we really not agree that this has to stop? Does it really matter how many people harassment would keep out of the business? While skepticism has its place, harassment is not a technical, but a social problem, and I, for one, can bring up enough empathy to not need the scientific method to want to stop harassment.

As to the casting couch, I don't know how it's where you live, but here in Europe, while everyone in the acting and music community is familiar with the term, the "casting couch" exists merely as a myth, not an actual thing preventing women to begin working in acting. Besides, the acting/music community is far beyond the 1/10 (or whatever) gender split in the tech community, so even if someone would try to establish the casting couch as a de-facto gate-keeping procedure, female members of the in-group would call it out, ending this phenomenon much sooner than would be possible if the gender gap in those communities were to be as it is now in tech.

Even then, you wouldn't bring up statiscics how many women were entering the acting field by "passing" the "casting couch". So I'm confused and would like to know what your point really is.
> After writing an email to Kayvon professing "correctness", I realized that I had a very bad and obvious race condition: [some thread reads an old pointer, leading to segfault]. Is there a more clever (lockfree) way than having a locked instruction on the common path in order to satisfy a rare edge case?

While I don't fully understand the details of the allocator design described here, this sounds very much like the "safe memory reclamation" problem that plagues lock-free algorithms. I run into this almost every time I want to do something interesting that is lock-free. It's a huge bummer.

The basic problem is this: anytime you want to be able to free memory in a lock-free data structure, there is almost always the risk that some other thread has read a pointer to that very memory, has the pointer sitting in memory or some register, and then goes to sleep (ie. is preempted) before it can actually dereference it. These threads are "ticking time bombs", so to speak. If you free the memory, the thread will crash when it wakes up and dereferences the memory.

Every simple solution to this problem you're tempted to invent doesn't work. The main solution to the problem in the literature is Hazard Pointers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_pointer), which also solves a related problem in lock-free algorithms, the ABA problem. Another approach is to just never free memory, or not free it until the structure itself is freed (when you can guarantee that no thread is using the structure anymore).

I believe that this problem is one of the biggest reasons lock-free algorithms aren't more practical. I wrote more about this (and some of the weaknesses of hazard pointers) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265803
Assuming everythig and everyone is having a GPS device its good. But in real world, anyone would understand that 1st cross 2nd main is near 2nd cross 2nd main but its impossible to know if lion.chocolate.news is near to bottle.key.bed or half way across the world.
I didn't do math. I did an experiment.

I took two identical pieces of metal. Dried one in a warm stove the other on a table.

The one on a table had no visible rust. The one in a stove was completely orange.
I wonder how Ebola will affect production since it's in the region where chocolate is produced.

Isn't it weird chocolate native to South America is grown mainly in African countries and coffee native to South American is mainily grown in South America.
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Oddly, I feel that gmail actually makes this worse. Specifically, mailing lists are one place where I actively like threaded messages.
I'm impressed by the bbv idea, but not about the startup-time overhead which is even worse than perl6 or the jvm. Even if the run-time of big loops is later on faster than v8.

$ time ./higgs --e "var x = 4; x = x + 5; print(x)"
9
real	0m1.191s

e.g. my own little jitted language which compiles also to C like asm with tagged data, but with inner-loop type-checks, does it in

$ time bin/potion -e'x = 4, x = x + 5, x print'
9
real	0m0.005s

so I don't buy the compiler overhead yet. type checks are not that slow.

$ time ./perl6-p -e'my $x=4; $x=$x+5; print $x'
9
real	0m0.818s

$ time ./perl6-m -e'my $x=4; $x=$x+5; print $x'
9
real	0m0.614s

and uncompiled:

$ time perl -e'my $x=4; $x=$x+5; print $x'
9
real	0m0.010s
Some users have asked to give an additional name to a square so we have allowed them to. However the 3 word system is being integrated into systems where data connections can't be guaranteed, as it is algorithmic, it's only 5MB big which can fit on a smartphone and display/receive 3 words, regardless of whether the user is connected. Available for any devs to use as an offline SDK. Error-detection and voice input are also optimised for the 3 word system. I would focus on the 3 word system.
The joke is that Americans only eat cocoa flavored sugar, such as is produced by the big commercial candy factories here. The GP pointed out that at any American store will sell you fine, refined chocolates, including (by implication)i mports from Europe, Asia, and South America.

What was your point?
With diseases, world might actually run out of chocolate or at least some varieties of it. Like Panama disease wiped out Gros Michel banana and is now also threatening Cavendish banana. Similarly Frosty Pod Rot seems to be spreading and threatening cocoa plantations.
I wrote a blog post[1] about the Fourier transform and lenses. Lenses taking Fourier transforms has surprising evolutionary effects.

[1]:http://scottsievert.github.io/blog/2014/05/27/fourier-transf...
Is this still possible? I remember reading somewhere that now it is encrypted or something like that, but can't find any sources right now?
Who's expense should it be then, in your opinion, to pursue (civil or criminal) legal action against the "troll"? AFAIK, if she wins, she can also demand payment of legal fees, so it's really just her time that's at stake.
Chocolate in the US does rather odd if you are not used to it - apparently this is due to a fondness there for the taste of a small amount of butyric acid in milk chocolate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar
I do miss the NC BBQ. I used to eat at Cooper's in downtown Raleigh -- which is in the process of moving to a new location I hear. A developer bought the block and is putting up a tall building -- no room for a business started in the 1930s there.

The best hushpuppies I ever had though, were at Bubba's in Charlotte. Ralph would make his dough in batches, and if you caught it at the end of the batch, the onions had had time to steep in the batter, and they were so good.
It's actually fairly straightforward, you can check out the code here: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/tree/master/fnordm...
You've put it better than I ever could. It's frustrating to see someone share an experience along the lines of "I earned X this weekend by exploiting a niche I completely ignored before and learned loads!", only for a commenter to inevitably come along and say "well, thats all well and good, but if you value your time at Y per hour you've actually lost money, not to mention the wasted opportunity cost of not using that time to become a rocket scientist and earning even more!"
This is more accurate than old school addresses. 3x3 is interesting as its the space a single person would stand in. So for instance in delivering a pizza, I'm in the back/front yard - this is better.

I always felt just stringing together latlong works, and can already be instantly typed into google maps, etc.. 41.9483,-87.6556

Maybe a DNS like system that translates friendly names to this string of characters eliminating the need to remap the world and replace what latlong already gives us.
You really think most people live at locations without addressing systems? How can we even prove that?

The only locations I'm aware of that that is true are: very poor parts of Asia, Africa, India, and maybe some of the favelas of Brazil.

With essentially all of North America, South America, Europe, and much of China, along with all of Japan, Australia, being covered by an addressing system.

I'd wager 2/3 of all people live in a location with normal addresses.
I am really so very tired of seeing people say this.

I'm going to explain this once, and I'm only doing this here because despite my reservations over the community, I know that HN is generally a place where people are intelligent enough to realize that words mean things, and those meanings don't usually change because we have feelings.

Harassment does not just mean threats. Harassment is not limited to words that contain threats of rape, death, violence, or some other kind of ruin. Harassment means "aggressive pressure or intimidation." Look it up. It's in the dictionary.

I have a directory that contains over 70k json files. Each file contains a tweet that mentions my name. These files were generated over the past 6 weeks. Not every mention is negative, nor is every mention about GamerGate. However, a significant number are people from GamerGate that are tweeting negative things at me.

Every morning, I would wake up, make coffee, and plop down in front of my computer to see what I had missed. This has been my routine for as long as I can remember. Despite the long-term harassment I've faced, it was not until GamerGate that I would wake up to a seemingly unending stream of hate in my twitter mentions. It's not one person. It's never one person when GamerGate is involved. It's the whole goddamn mob. This is why I wrote ggautoblocker - because there is no block button for a mob.

What precisely would you call it when hundreds or even thousands of people direct so much of their time and energy to repeatedly contacting a single person who has never talked to them before with messages of hate, insults, attacks on credibility, and threats of getting that person fired? I would call that harassment. I might even argue that that mob harassment is worse than more serious threats coming from a single person.

I don't need to prove anything to you. I don't need to tie anything to GamerGate. That's your hang up, not mine. If I thought you weren't so biased that you would warp data to meet your own ends, I might give you the full list of tweet IDs (distributing the json itself would be against ToS) in the name science. You care far more about your cause than you do harassment in tech, and that's telling. You came here to argue a hashtag that only matters to the people that use it. This is bigger than you.
Superfast? I barely can open the homepage.
Periodically, the big candy makers try to get the FDA to relax the definition of "chocolate" to allow non-cacao fats into the mix. This could signal the beginning of another lobbying effort.

See a 2007 proposal here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...

"Chocolate lovers read that as a direct assault on their palates. That's because the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it possible to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of that defining ingredient. Whoppers malted milk balls, for instance, do not have cocoa butter."
Yes. Not just inside government, either.
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This. I adore Cadbury's for example, but apparently Hershey's has a right to that brand in the US, and you have to go to an international store and pay an arm and a leg to get a genuine Cadbury chocolate.
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How about funds raised from the confiscated property go towards paying down the national debt for federal confiscations, and offset appropriated federal taxes for state confiscations?
This is a really interesting idea. I wonder if there's anyone who's been extremely successful in their work who would object to it.

My instinct is that if you're smart about your time investments, you can get pretty far on most those burners without out a lot of time invested.

For example, for me, health is a non-negotiable. But I can maintain it with only 4-5 hours a week of investment vs. 0 hours if I abandon it. I just have 3 rules: get enough sleep, eat only healthy things, exercise at least once a week.

If you are running your own company and you can't sleep enough, I think you are either not prioritizing it or you're doing something wrong. You're unsustainably stressed or not managing your company's execution well enough. Not enough sleep affects your performance and ability to think as much as your health, so I really don't see any benefit to being chronically sleep deprived.

Eating healthy doesn't take much more time than eating unhealthy. It means buying groceries, and knowing what's open around you that's cheap and healthy (Most Chinese take-out vegetable stir fry is a good option). The groceries come from Amazon Fresh, and mean 2-3 hours more per week cooking than you would if you got fast food.

And exercise takes no more than 2 hours a week. The goal here is not to be athletic, it's just to be healthy.

I think that whatever your main burner is, you can usually maintain the other burners adequately with 4-5 hours per week, and no more unless something unusual is going on.

The key word here is adequate - it's not the main dimension of your success, and you may just be ok at it. But I don't think you need to fail at it in order to succeed at the thing you're focusing on.

And if you can hit adequacy, you still have more than enough time for your main burner. If other burners combined take 15 hours per week, you very likely still have at least 80 hours a week left for your main focus.

The specific numbers I hypothesize here applies only if you don't have kids, which I imagine skews your family number significantly.
A more accurate title might be: "world's biggest chocolate-maker tries to prepare customers for higher prices by disingenuously claiming that we will run out of a renewable resource."
I tried the potato method and am not pleased with the results at all. I'm going to try one of the oil based approaches instead, they sound far less messy.
That would be an interesting article, this one however was kinda pointless, as it appeared to be predicated on prices not rising, with only a tiny call out to frosty pod.
We won't run out of chocolate. The supply is fixed, demand increases, price rises. Demand falls to match available supply.

Chocolate will become more expensive.

Not really a story...
1) you haven't answered the question. Is it okay for people to go around spreading lies about you?

2) As Cory Doctorow put it "Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor." demanding payment of legal fees from someone who has no money doesn't get you very far.

3) The question is whether there is a societal problem here that we should care about at the level of governance. I'd argue yes, but what the remedy should be is way more complicated a topic, and something that i think is probably only worth discussing in good faith. So if you don't think this is a problem, that should be addressed first.
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People use boats, and lat/lon coordinates are also sometimes useless without an elevation.
Or they could get turned on based on need - community size, traffic, etc.
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That may be true, but it's not mentioned in the article. Is there a good reference if anyone wants to read up on Frosty Pod Rot?

edit: apparently it is mentioned in passing. oops.
I feel like Groups wouldn't be an app worth downloading unless you were a heavy user of that feature, which is not most people and therefore a dud by default
Very nice. Unfortunately, color-perception-deficient visitors will have trouble with the map. I personally can't tell the difference between the "Black" and "Hispanic" dots unless two relatively big blobs of them are right next to each other. The "Asian" and "Other" colors are similarly indistinct, but not as bad.
Does everyone take part in the US Census? If so, why, is there an incentive?
Your quotes around 'forced upon' make it seem like it is not really being forced onto users. Gnome users for example are getting shafted now that systemd is a dependency for the gnome DE.
Quite accurate attempt at being funny, I'd say. In fact, of course actual chocolate is available in America, but most of the chocolate consumed there has such a low purity that it wouldn't even be legal to call it chocolate in other countries.

In fact, the article itself mentions 10% cocoa content as being typical for milk chocolate. In Europe, the minimum required by law for milk chocolate is 25%.

This kind of thing is why I wouldn't like TTIP to be ratified...
While i like the approach described by that post, many things are hardly something that is applied by them or others in RL, money is what drives decisions.
"Last year, the world ate roughly 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. By 2020, the two chocolate-makers warn that that number could swell to 1 million metric tons, a more than 14-fold increase; by 2030, they think the deficit could reach 2 million metric tons."

How can the world be eating more cocoa than it produces? I can imagine there might be stockpiles, but surely they're gone if we're talking about year-over-year deficits.

I think the article means that the demand for chocolate in 2020 could be 1 million metric tons more than supply. So prices will go up, and there will be an economic incentive for suppliers to increase production and for manufacturers to innovate with new products and efficiencies. Seems pretty normal.
No. This is _bullshit_, and people should really stop saying this.

A lot of components (OpenSSL? GCC? LLVM?) are in that repository merely for convenience but ARE NOT developed on internally (except for patches to make them work, eventually).

This IS NOT the same of "everything developed internally here, from syslog to dhcpcd" mentality of systemd.