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To me, the biggest problem I have in my interactions with Google (and it's growing over time) is that I never feel like their customer. I don't pay them anything (now that they've sold Motorola, they don't make phones, and they don't seem to charge for the OS on the phone), they don't have products I can buy. They just... put stuff out for me to use, and make money off ads. So there's this rather disquieting mismatch between what I as a user want from them and what they do, because their money doesn't come from me, it comes from people who buy ads. And they need to put SOME effort into user satisfaction, because they need users to have someone to look at the ads that they sell, but there's still a mismatch between user wants and Google offerings. Google Reader is probably the canonical example -- yeah, it wasn't a widely used service, but the users it did have were devoted, and might even have paid to keep using it. But it didn't matter, as Google Reader didn't line up with how Google wanted to sell ads now. So it got the axe. And it's in those moments of powerlessness -- where you have no say over what Google does, because you're not its customer, you're just its user -- that Google loses its appeal. It's not evil, it may even be a level playing field. But that sort of user powerlessness makes me uncomfortable using Google stuff going forward.
How are calls placed to service providers? Does a robot voice read out the requests? If so, how do you convey to the service provider that this isn't a spam message?
It's an agricultural commodity with contracts that trade on the exchanges. It's not controlled by a cartel.
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Space elevator.

Ok now a non-facetious answer: I'd like something I can install on my computer which will prevent it downloading 100mb updates when I'm tethered instead of on a normal network.
>you nutjob

Where did you see that in her post, you dummy? Oh, I bet you are going to say that it was there but she has edited it out.
While these are selected examples and personal experiences, they are indicative of a greater cultural norm that normalizes the harassment of women. By seeing what one woman has gone through, we can be more cognizant of what other women are going through, which is important for making the situation for women in tech better.

The author's determination to speak out has led to thousands of people harassing her -- it follows that many women will not speak out about the abuse they receive online. We need to be aware that this abuse can and does happen in order to improve the situation for women in tech.
This is a well reasoned and cogent commentary, I’m glad I read this.
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It seems useful for unfamiliar locations and all the 3x3m locations without addresses, like where your tent is pitched or where on the trail you've fallen.

I'd rather (A) read out "chair.lion.knowledge" than (B) try to figure out the address of some little one-room shop in Guadalajara that's just an unmarked door on an unmarked corner and then hope the address-lookup round-trip resolves to the same place.
>Great start.

Yeah, I edited. I'm exhausted and probably shouldn't be overly insulting when I don't even know you. You're kind of just another person piling onto a tired point, though.

>Disagreement, however, is not harassment.

I would never claim that disagreement is harassment. Until recently, I had never even used the word harassment to describe what has happened to me, and believe me, I've been in plenty of disagreements.

>>I don't need to tie anything to GamerGate.

>You did. In your blog post.

Yes, I did. But I don't need to keep proving it.

Do you understand what happens when a woman claims to be harassed by GamerGate? She's asked for proof by a minimum of 30 people, none of which know how to look at replies to a tweet to see that they are just piling on. None of them look for context to see if proof was already linked. Dead serious. This is what happens.

In the event that proof is supplied, there's only a few results I've ever witnessed.

- Gaters claim that the screenshot was faked. They grab mspaint and draw red lines that somehow supposedly disprove things through timestamps and broken logic that I can't even begin to follow.

- Gaters claim the troll is not associated with GamerGate and has never been a part of GamerGate, so it's not their problem. I am not sure who the gatekeeper of GamerGate is, but as far as I know, it's a hashtag, a hate group, and possibly a cult. The organization behind GamerGate is a poor approximation of the late stages of Occupy Wall Street, where every mentally unstable person with a cause was showing up and shoving pamphlets in tourists' faces. There is no barrier to entry. If someone claims to be a supporter of GamerGate, and they use the hashtag, I'm going to believe them.

- Gaters say "OK, reporting him!" and that's the end of the story for them. That's the most they want to do. Never mind that reporting someone for harassment has to be done by the person being harassed. The form for reporting harassment won't even let you fill it out if you state that the harassment was directed at someone else, last I checked.

- Gaters link a 90 minute YouTube video of some dude on his couch explaining why Anita Sarkeesian is the devil. Or a YouTube video of thunderf00t.

I started out by supplying proof early on, until I saw this pattern emerging. Now, I've taken a stand. I refuse to provide any more proof, because my story is otherwise verifiable, and I don't have a reputation for crying "harassment!" when that's not the case. Quite the opposite. It took me this long to go public with what happened.

GamerGate is small beans, and I would have nothing to gain by lying about being harassed by them. For one, they are anonymous. I have actual names of people that have harassed me over the years. Why wouldn't I go after them instead? Could it be because GamerGate isn't the issue, but the culture is? Maybe GamerGate is just a symptom of a larger problem. Maybe that's the point I was getting at all along. Subtext.
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Not surprising. Urban gardens are awesome for making a city feel like home, and providing a relaxing escape from stressful city life.

But eating vegetables grown in NYC soil, breathing NYC air?
Lets keep the food producing to farming lands outside of dense cities.
Why? Increased supply doesn't guarantee lower prices...witness your average gas price up/down movement. Even a whiff of increased usage or decreased production drives prices up within a day. But it takes a global glut to bring them down over a period of years.
~52.47: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+the+titanic+%...
BTW, the problems with thread registration you mention can be solved using cpu-local storage instead of thread-local. This can also save space usage and collection time since, assuming short lifetimes for guard objects, the total maximum number of guard objects that ever come into existence simultaneously is smaller.

In lots of practical scenarios though, hazard pointers aren't great for performance, since they require a Store|Load fence during every load operation (e.g. traversing linked list requires O(n) mfences). Alternatives like Fraser's epoch-based reclamation or quiescent state based reclamation often perform better in "real life". (Not to imply you're not familiar with this, haberman, but it's useful to document for other readers).
You are completely missing the entire point to nitpick over a hashtag. Just mentally replace "GamerGate supporters" with "#GamerGate supporters" or even "#GamerGate hashtag users" if you feel that the former is an unfair miscategorisation. The issue here is a disgraceful onslaught of harassment by an abusive mob, not their nuanced opinions on ethical breaches in games journalism.
I immediately closed the tab because I thought it was an advertising popup. Page is too sparse, lacked credibility.
I'm sure my math teacher would love me playing this in class. It's amazing what you can do with just a calculator.
A cheap way to duplicate car keys/fobs. Car companies charge well over $300 so it seems there would be a huge margin.
I'd say the newly gained acceleration is due to [1] the force of attraction suddenly disappearing.

[1] https://github.com/stephenbalaban/Gravity/blob/master/Gravit...
Something like Youtab (https://www.youtab.me/) but that prints out the entire music sheet for violin/piano, etc
I disagree.
1. It's her experience, and she can equate those two experiences if she feels they should be.
2. Her experience with 'reading words on the internet' is indicative of a much wider culture of harassment against women. This cultural issue, because it contributes to the dearth of women in tech, is a societal issue in the same way that domestic abuse is.
CL can already do GOTO. And the BREAK and CARRY implementations use exit continuations.

I did consider doing it in CL though because then I'd have an excuse to call FUNCTION and FUNCALL "SUB" and "GOSUB".
Also, most likely, "world's biggest chocolate-maker prepares ground for an other round of trying to bulk up chocolate with non-cocoa fats and still call it chocolate"
Increased supply facilitates competition which drives prices down. If you artificially inflate prices, you leave room for competitors to seize market share without taking losses.
Lessons learned developing scholarly open source software
I skimmed it and failed to find an explanation of what problems are caused by thinking of a pixel as a little square. Anyone?
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I do not consider them any different than normal people. It's not an opinion created out of jealousy, anti-interest, or anything remotely connected to the status they are given by pop-culture.

I don't know if it is part of my philosophy of how I imagine most people live their lives in the 'information age' where it is as easy to voyeur into a normal person's life as it is a celebrities. I think that composes part of it.

But largely, they don't have actual value to me by virtue of the frequency of which their name appears in print alone. They do the same thing that any other person would do. They live, breathe, eat, sleep, socially engage, connect, disconnect, and do a job.

People don't often realize how much influence their environment has on them, their paths in life, their sense of self, their self direction, their opinions, thoughts and ideas.

The people I consider valuable are the ones that consistently strive to exceed the boundaries imposed on them by the limitations of contemporary culture. The people I consider valuable don't look at their past as a legacy or an attachment for which to cling to in order to maintain status, but they look at the present as if they are continuously starting at the beginning.

I try to live that way, because I find that keeps me humble, receptive to learning, and always questioning the things I think I know or understand. The introductory story sounds like something that would either make me fall asleep or hide in a corner due to social anxiety. I'd much rather being hacking away at a computer, or having interesting conversations, than having a 'party' and swapping out all the people I love in my life for brand names that represent weird composites of PR engineered "people".

These are people in real life, but the media distortion is an image. The image is different than the person. I don't know them as a person and I can't know the person through the image. So why care? That image shares more similarity with 1,000 anonymous comments on a forum than it does with a real person. It's an artificial construct.
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It's an interesting idea. I'd have to study up a lot more on how to do reader macroing in Racket. Mostly I was more focused on terminology (going forward my naming policy will be to favor BASIC names over Lisp ones, same reason why print is display in Heresy), and on providing a kind of 'nutrasweet' Lisp rather than a full blown functional BASIC dialect (which is as yet beyond my skills with the language).
The point about unique IDs is well taken, but there's a cost to tracking these unique IDs too.

For example, if you generate hundreds of message a second, you quickly end up having to track millions of unique ids. Then you have to manage the storage of these IDs somehow, so you end up implementing a system to wipe out any ID older than a certain time, and so now you not only have track the IDs you've seen, but when you've seen them.

That said, this is probably better than making an incredibly complex message queue system just to support exactly once delivery.
Why Is Exactly-Once Messaging Not Possible in a Distributed Queue?
The problem with this is that words always mean something. I don't want my house to be named fast.blazed.depravity
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-22/nestle-says-ebola-i...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/cocoa-traders-make-...
Stopped reading at "A pixel is a point sample." No, it's not. We wouldn't have sub-pixel font rendering and hundreds of anti-aliasing filter modes for the graphics cards. The pixel is an /area/ element of your image. And yes, many times, it's a square.
Perfect Competition Is Bad for Growth
Didn't try yet but DigitalOcean [1] + DigitalOcean Community Projects [2] or Commando.io [3] may help. I'm not sure if they do what you need, but I would check them out if I were you.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/
[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects
[3] https://commando.io/
To add to what every other reply is telling you, I ignored the census form they mailed to my house. A month later, some guy stopped by and asked me the questions in person. People camping in semi-remote places and those living out of their cars/ blending into society are probably missed, but that is a small proportion of the population.
Does the __ in front of "nalloc" have a special meaning?
Might be a straight-forward application of Buridan's Principle: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b...
In my experience, the answer to this question largely depends on what your ultimate goals are.

Want to become a competent programmer and do that for a living? The advice in this thread is solid (particularly @CyberFonic's).

If you simply want to hack/glue-up/play around with some side projects, I once heard someone suggest you pick the language your close friends know best and buy them lots of beer.

In my case, I needed a newbie-friendly prototyping tool and JavaScript/Meteor has served me well.

So, give us an idea of your goals, and I'm sure the community here will be able to steer you in the right direction.
Nominal rigidity (price stickiness) is pretty standard economics, though admittedly Keynesian so I'm sure someone will disagree.
All I got for you is that it worked in my hometown to send away a prefetto (unelected bureaucrat with some executive and police powers). The guy basically ended up placing himself under house arrest because he had to get gas at night at self-services when there was nobody to tell him "i am not selling you any gas", couldn't buy fresh food because he had to use the self-checkout at the supermarket or not eat, etc. This lasted around six months, after which he quit.
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Reminds me of Eschaton! Paging cstross...
Economic liberalism is pro free-market. Do you mean the least liberal of economists?
I wholeheartedly disagree. I like reading what other people think about, especially if I've just read a controversial piece. If the Washington Post disabled comments entirely, for example, I don't think I'd be as inclined to read their articles.
Yes!

SmartConsent: A way to engineer an end to campus sexual assault. The rape whistle can be improved upon. Even a very simple reengineered "garage door opener" transceiver glued to the upper right hand corner of every bed on campus would do the trick, and would permit young women and men to call for "Consent First Response" on a Red Alert (physical harm) or Code Blue (perceived coercion) whenever they are feeling uncomfortable and need a discreet first responder to come help sort things out.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276296
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302548
Indeed. As far as I could tell, the article was an exercise in "TMTOWTDI" - sometimes squares, sometimes subdivided squares (trinitron), sometimes little circles with gaps or overlaps, sometimes linear interpolation of a sample.

OK, it's an abstraction, but the article didn't seem to cover the strength of weakness of various implementations.
First time I tried an american chocolate (hersheys) I literally threw it away, as it smelled like poo. Only later I realized they all do :/

This may be the reason..
There is a tension to use your time in the best way. Recently someone asked in reddit Haskell what's the best language to learn to obtain some statistics and finance, my answer was R. Computer Science should be related to some field in which you are an expert or know about. One extreme side of the coin is being too pragmatic the other extreme is wasting your time in the hippies things.

The difficulty is putting the real amount of time in research and in getting the tools that will me your goal became a reality, that's a touch problem.
I tried something like this, but instead people would just take take and submit video of a problem they had with one tap (the noise their car is making, the leaky faucet, showing and telling what interior design work they need done in a house etc). The idea was to let businesses see the videos for free but make them pay if they wanted to contact the customer.

I got no takers on either side - no one submitted videos and, if they had, I had no businesses interested in viewing them. These marketplace ideas seem like better businesses than they are. I'm convinced that the only successful ones will be those that are hyper-focused on a single niche. "Oh that's the app/site I open if I need X" instead of "I can get anything I need from this app/site". It seems that consumers just don't like having too many options from a single source (with a few notable exceptions, but it is effectively impossible to become one).

Good luck with yours though - I am just sharing my experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oi2xcLlDU
We play a pre-recorded message to service providers whenever they have a matching lead and direct them to the site to retrieve the lead info. The requests are not currently read out. Each request is verified by a human to prevent spam messages.
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You can say "I do not feel safe interacting with someone who has a firearm, please come back without". That means you have to be consistent about it, of course, and also kick out other members of the public who have a weapon.

That's legitimate because it has nothing to do with race, gender, ethnicity, or occupation - a lot of stores have "no firearms allowed" signs, you just have to add "absolutely no exceptions".

It's also the same logic behind asset forfeiture... you don't have a problem with a person, you have a problem with a thing. So, +1 to poetic justice I guess.

If your business is internet-only, I guess it doesn't work.
Here's a more recent video presentation from Shanghai that goes into greater depth on the possibility space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oi2xcLlDU

You can skip ahead to about 9 minutes 18 seconds to get a sense of the core arguments that build toward the conclusion that we need long-press-activated, always-on, always-available digital rape whistles attached to student beds and student wrists.

Watch the videos for the caveats, disclaimers, and possibilities. If you're interested in starting, just drop me a line at:

adam@lifesavers.io OR adam@smartconsent.org

I'll help however I can. Dozens of rapes happened this weekend that I could not help stop with smartconsent alerts.

And to be sure, this is a "free" idea that's public domain, as far as I know. All the videos are released via Creative Commons Universal, and all the wiring and prelim code for this project that I have so far or will build is released with the MIT License. If you form a nonprofit or for-profit company to build out and sell SmartConsent, I assert no proprietary interest. I just want to sleep easier at night knowing that I helped get this project and design thesis into good hands.
And sometimes, it was an asterisk in a 60 x 80 grid (with a messed up aspect ratio) on a piece of printer paper, back in the stone age :-)
Chocolate becomes more expensive, more farmers start farming cocoa beans, prices go down, armchair economists make more wild predictions in the opposite direction.
Service providers don't have to be signed up, if they are publicly listed we will call them to alert them of a sales lead.

Thank you for your feedback.
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In at least two jobs, not to mention my current consulting project, I've been the only member of my racial group. I can't think of a time my group membership ever helped or affected the work at all.

At most it was a source of fun within the office - e.g. convincing an officemate that I had two illegitimate children might have been more difficult if I were a member of the majority group.

I agree that diversity among crash test dummies, nurses and security theatre pat down people is important since specific job functions depend on it.

Another obvious problem is that by having $GROUP out of the mix, a member of $GROUP trying to enter the field faces doubt and scepticism ("scene whore"), just because of the fact that $GROUP is under-represented, perpetuating the situation.

Your entire process is broken if irrational concerns like this are playing a significant role. This is a bigger problem, and merely throwing in some more bias to compensate is papering over the problem. The solution is to vigorously make your process systematic and objective, removing human judgement as much as possible.
The article focusses on Cogent Communications. Although not exclusively on Cogent plumbing, mysterious liars Cyveillance tend to arrive at my web server from Cogent IP addresses.

What Deep State connections does Cogent have?
Man I remember typing in program code line by line before I got the connector to sync programs.
That implies that chocolate houses are simply escaping a trap of artificially depressed prices; that is to say, they were taking losses before. Right?
Or long-term lease.

Typically NY situation is, up-and-coming restaurateur opens in a crappy underutilized space, takes a long-term e.g. 7-year lease. Lease is up, every established restaurateur and dilettante thinks they can make a fortune there, rent rises to where nobody can make much of a buck, often new restaurant closes shortly after.

I don't know why there are so many freaking banks, New Yorkers refuse to walk and are worth money to banks. But a restaurant is a huge pain in the ass to a landlord compared to a bank.
Couldn't you wet sand it to minimize dust?
I've been building a prototype with an Arduino Yun. The code is half-functional at present. The roadmap is very clear. The problem is that I work as a chemistry teacher in 上海, and I can not do this technology justice of my own. You will need to pitch in, Hacker News, to make this a reality.
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The affordable care act barely got out of the Senate with only 60 of the 60 needed votes to stop debate. Al Franken won his election to the Senate by 317 votes.
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Nice, but I miss ON ERROR RESUME NEXT.
This is very interesting.

1) makes me think our upcoming Laundry-to-Landscape project will probably use our sandy front yard soil as a giant lint filter.
2) makes me think twice before using dryer lint as camp fire tinder.
3) from what I understand, the fabric industry is running low on ideas for product differentiation at the high end of the market. Garment lifecycle could be a lucrative differentiator.