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Scale matters. And it has real-world effects... people get fired over this sort of thing, among other things.

The only thing preventing the lynch mob from doing what things the physical lynch mobs used to do is simple, sheer lack of physical proximity, so A: I consider it a valid use of the term and B: It should not be viewed by any sane person as a normal and healthy social correction mechanism, it should be condemned by all. It is still dangerous, and if everyone acts like it's no big deal or even a good idea, it will get worse, until the lynch mobs do do what lynch mobs used to do.

And I mean that 100% fully literally, with absolutely no exaggeration whatsoever. In the real world, the line between "dozens of death threats", which we've already handily reached, and "an actual attempt on your life" is very thin. As easy as it may be to tell others not to worry, if you personally were betting your life on that line, you would not be happy; it is not to be relied upon. There are crazy people out there. Failure to take that into account while passively accepting that online lynch mobs are OK is just stupid.

This stuff isn't a joke. It's one of the foundational bricks between having a civilization and not having one. It is unwise to be so lackadaisical about it, if you like living in a civilization.
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> yes, it's not great for a career, but neither is flipping burgers.

If the candidates were told this, I'd be fine. (I can easily imagine a world where most teachers happily work for low wages, because they've already done their primary career and are now retired, but are staying active in the community and passing on their knowledge.)

But lots of these candidates were lied to and told things like "there are a lot of professors retiring soon, so new spots will open up, so you can teach for a few years and then be ready to grab those spots." Meanwhile the full professors are making six figures and stringing along the adjuncts with promises of tenure, some day.
> I've compared using Locust to Gatling and the only downside is that Locust wasn't able to reach the same RPS I was getting with Gatling. It's a shame because Locust is much nicer to work with in comparison.

That's hardly an issue as you can trivially build multi machine swarms with Locust.
tl;dr: Scientific American published an article about an analog computing technique that the author claims can solve NP-complete problems, but which contains an elementary mistake that invalidates the result. Before SciAm published it, an arXiv preprint circulated and commenters on HN and Reddit pointed out the mistake. The editor either did not read these replies, or did read them but decided to publish anyways.

This is an embarrassing fuckup on their part, but one that is endemic in mass-market scientific publications, which want to publish sensational results but lack the expertise to recognize them or to summarize results without major distortions. The problem is so severe that I recommend avoiding these sources entirely, because the frequent major errors will effectively leave you less knowledgeable than you started.
Even with k=0, the problem is still NP-complete.

Are you referring to the "pseudo-polynomial" trick where you maintain a bit vector of partial sums?
It's probably because there are many people who say "this is a mental process" when they really mean "this does not exist".
In a home, size and weight is a bit of a factor.

Is the building strong enough to support the weight? Space also has a cost.

It would also cost more to manufacture, transport and install big and heavy equipment, because it is big and heavy equipment.
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But it's still niche media manipulating the voice and attention of the masses, as illustrated by the article. There is so much bigotry and racism that goes unnoticed in the depths of comment boards and bad blogs. Why aren't the masses also voicing about any of this? Because they aren't speaking briefly enough to be easily criticizable.
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A little rewording, and we get:

> Transistor computing is naturally parallel, aidenn0 says, with computations taking place simultaneously at every logic gate
You can get a hand crank emergency radio/light/phone charger for roughly $25-$30. Example: http://www.amazon.com/Epica-Emergency-Digital-Flashlight-Cer...

The refrigerator bit is a bit harder...
It's amazing that magazine layout designers did as well as they did considering they didn't have a measurable fraction of the data we have now on users' reading habits. With the (ever evolving) data we now have from eye tracking tests in usability labs, modern designers have an amazing advantage when it comes to creating intuitive web pages and applications.

The downside, though, is so much of the web has become homogenous. It feels like every start up has an out-of-the-box website build with bootstrap, complete with a full-width parallax header image and liberal use of Helvetica Neue.
DAU = daily user? That's funny, in German tech-slang DAU is short for a really dumb/ignorant user. (DAU = "dümmster anzunehmender User", as a word play on GAU = "größter anzunehmender Unfall" = "maximum credible accident")
You're missing a crucial point: whatever an average person does lasts forever. It used to be that you had to be somebody notable before this happened, which meant you had a recompense -- you were already famous for some reason. Now, the average shit you might say at the bar to your friends can mark you for all eternity. That's something unheralded in the history of communication, and it's horrifying.
Although the "chop a finger" tactic might be a worry in some exceptional cases... in the vast majority of cases I think "punch someone in the face until they reveal their password" is a more plausible tactic.

It also just doesn't matter for a lot of cases. A lot of the systems people often think of as super important and secure and permanent (like banking) have a fair amount of wiggle room for rollback in the event of fraud/crime/etc, and policies/processes to minimize the extent to which you can carry out irreversible transactions. Security is imperfect, so there's value in a system which is robust to security failure.
I agree: I would really like a response from Isaac on this.
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Well, you're basically asking more than a billion people to change their cultural value on a fundamental level that has been instilled starting 5000 years ago. I wouldn't casually put it aside as a minor issue that can be solved by social security.
I'm using XLR connectors in some of my projects for just that. In my case: 5v, 12v, 24v, low amperage only.
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When I could barely get 200 RPS from a locust instance, but 10,000 RPS from a Gatling instance, this is a huge issue if you don't have an unlimited budget.
A recent example.

http://blog.solarcity.com/monopoly-money

Here we have companies blatantly bribing government, and not even really hiding that fact. Did I miss that massive national scandal it caused?
Azure is a PAAS, right? OLAP should be one of the native offerings from Microsoft.

Google has BigQuery and AWS has Redshift.
I knew someone once who'd used heroin for a while and gave it up and he told a similar story. He said it "makes the pain go away," and I asked what he meant and he just said "all of it" and smiled. He said I'm in horrible, horrible pain and have no idea because I'd never tried heroin before. :O

Immediately made me think of this great old sci-fi story: http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2009/05/17/desertion-by...
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Mainly because "progressivism" as the term is used today has little to do with what it was about in the past? Most movements have had huge changes over the past hundred years.

It wasn't exactly conservatism which brought us back to the point we're at now from there, was it? It seems as if it were a different movement entirely from the late 1800s progressives and the conservative movement.
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> There may be issues adding solar to your house, relative to the transformer and neighborhood substation. That $100 may be what it cost them to adapt.

Almost assuredly no. There are laws in place and inspections which get done that prohibit anyone's inverters from being on when the power is off, this is to protect workers from getting shocked when a line SHOULD be down, but isn't. The inspection is simple and it's been done for many years for people who choose to install backup generators. Obviously those don't feed power back, but that leads into my next point.

If they can run 100 or 200 amp service to my house, surely they can afford a few dozen amps of power in the other direction. 100 amps * 220V = 22kW Many houses are wired for 200 amps so that's 44kW of power. Who is putting in 20kW to 40kW solar plants on their roof? A normal panel is between 200 and 400 watts. Which houses have 100 solar panels on them?

Further $100/mo times forever isn't reasonable if they only have a fixed capital cost to adapt. Again, they almost certainly don't unless everyone in the neighborhood is developing truly commercial amounts of solar and wind power. And if someone is breaking that threshold, fine I have no problems with them having to jump through hoops. They can afford it.

> For the most part, 'they' is 'us'.

It GREATLY depends on where you live. In rural areas it's a power co-op or whatever and I'm inclined to agree with just about everything you've said. But there are a lot of places where it's not a co-op and it's about someone turning a profit; for shareholders and everything.
It's b/c it's the NYTimes-- they actually do reporting & journalism.

There's seems to be a lot of piggybacking/freeloading off of original reporting. I was involved with a project that got a big splashy NYTimes write up and it was astonishing in the coming days to see how many joker press outlets basically crimped off the Times' original reporting. They'd include a link and all that but they'd lift the juciest quotes/content and the only thing they'd contribute was some usually sassy commentary.

Here's a really vivid example-- great write up about Target detecting a pregnancy from purchase data: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...

It's a great little news nugget- provocative, interesting, yadda yadda.

And then before you know it, all these "summary"/"reaction" stories get published which didn't exactly contribute much or move the ball down the field:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

http://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how-target-knew-a-high-s...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102859/How-Target-k...

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...

I'm not sure if this is a real problem or not, but it seems kind of lame that those other groups get to sit on their cans and pontificate while others get out of their offices.
Does anyone know of any existing (scrubbed for anonymity is fine) datasets of linked-in data? Doesn't have to be particularly recent.
Oops: "thought experiment" or "analysis" not a silly mash of the two.
Mac OS 9 had a voice login option. In my experience, it did not work very well because my voice when I first woke up in the morning was very different from my voice later on during the day, such that my Mac did not recognize my early morning voice when I tried to log in.

e: and yes, I believe the default phrase for the voice login option was "my voice is my passport."
I suspect it's not all environment, but this study argues that environment (and social realities, etc.) are a significant component -- it's not just a matter of chemical dependence only.
I would give an unqualified yes to this. All rules and constraints of a puzzle are fair game for making deductions.
but really what we see with these crusades by SJW's is just an opportunity for bullying, usually by people who were once bullied and now want to get their own back. A lot of it is bandwagon jumping by the majority of people, who may or may not have a dog int he fight, but just want to cause a fuss. It is these people that call the employers, DDOS employers websites etc and then everyone lumps them all together as SJW's, giving everyone a bad rep.

Doing things quietly would bring about better change, not chnage through fear (as it is now) but change through education. Explain to eople why they are wrong, get them to conciously change their behaviour as opposed to reactively change it to protect themselves and not because of an understanding of where they went wrong.

Reasd the article and everyone involved still thinks that what they said was a joke and was blown out of all proportion. No minds were changed here, people just batten down the hatches to protect themselves and their families.
'While the online travel booking space is still fairly crowded, Mr. Moore said that the deal will still receive “a substantial amount of scrutiny” from antitrust regulators. He cites the Federal Trade Commission’s study of Zillow Inc $3.5 billion acquisition of Trulia Inc as a good comparison. The deal which was announced in July 2014 is still being reviewed by regulators.'

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/02/12/investors-like-the...
I'm having trouble counting the ways this comment is invalid. It seems to be invalid at each word:

1) Hardware does not become obsolete so quickly: It is good that hardware becomes obsolete. I can't for the life of me imagine that the world would be a better place if state of the art CPUs were the 8Mhz Z80 my computing life started with.

2) Slower CPUs would be good for the environment: How? By needing more iron for a given task? More energy? Is it by disallowing hugely detailed climate simulations? How???

3) Slow CPUs would be good for the less economically privileged: The cheapest CPU that can be bought today is some orders of magnitude faster than an 8Mhz Z80. How would the less privileged be better off if CPU evolution had stopped in the early 80s?
You can't control what other people find offensive, and you can't avoid offending other people. You can control your own reaction to what you find offensive.
>If this doesn't show that healthcare.gov (and every single other state-exchange) should never have been built in the first place, I don't know what does.

I am definitely stepping out on a limb here, but I would imagine HealthSherpa uses the HealthCare.org API and would not have a product offering without Healthcare.org having laid the ground work (i.e. consolidating the insurance plans available and offering the API).
Much like XKCD, Tim Urban's graphics really seem to hammer the point home with a minimal of fuss.
Does anyone know of a way to log into Linux with voice authentication? That could be better than typing my password all the time.
Forgive me for the possibly silly question, but does this mean developers won't be able to make LinkedIn a login option for their apps? I'm not sure if and how OAUth and APIs are related.
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This is my biggest difficulty with * nix. With drive letters, I know for a fact that Windows is installed on C: and I can format all the other volumes. But in what volume is the system installed on a * nix?
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Reminds me of another recent article, which I think I might also have found here at HN:

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
I prefer transcripts over videos. It often takes less than 10 minutes to read the transcript of a 60 minute presentation. And it is a lot easier to go back and review sections which were confusing.
Were you not in a position to edit his signature, or get it edited? You jumped the gun.
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I could be self-deluded, but I feel like to some extent my ability to imagine the missing context, or even just a possible context for these things has increased in the age of social media, and online gaming, and soundbytes. I'm still aware that in many cases there's a high percentage chance a person is just a jerk.

Maybe it's a situation where working on the 8th floor makes most people more likely to take an elevator than if you worked on the 2nd floor, but if you do keep taking the stairs you quickly become very good at it.
Legal liability would put an end to this.

Imagine this: Someone says something unfortunate or offensive at a crowded street corner. Another person hears it and launches into a righteous indignation frenzy. I'll call him the Lead Bully. He stirrs up others. Very soon this turns into a physical attack and the speaker ends up in the hospital with serious injuries.

In this case anyone would easily conclude that the Lead Bully and a number of others should be brought to justice and suffer financial damage for their transgressions.

Well, a lot of these online attacks are not far from my hypothetical scenario. They are launched and stoked by a Lead Bully and stoked by them and perhaps a small group of friends and followers. These attacks result in serious and significant damage spanning from physical and emotional to financial.

According to the article, in Justine Sacco's case the Lead Bully was Sam Biddle, editor of Valleywag. This person single-handedly unleashed the hordes on Sacco. Given his position and following it is impossible to imagine he did not understand the potential consequences of his actions. He ruined this woman's life and quite possibly scarred her for a long time, if not for life.

Much like the street corner beating scenario, he ought to be liable for his decision to affect someone's life. He had at least two choices in front of him. He took the one he knew would stirr-up a hornet's nest.

The case of the guys at the tech conference is similar. Adria Richards decided to be the Lead Bully and, as a consequence, cost a father of three kids his job and caused much pain. I happen to also have three kids. If you are single you have no idea what that man felt at that moment. You can guess, but you can't know. It's horrible.

Did these people say stupid things? Probably. The way to deal with them isn't to ruin their lives. In most cases at a street corner they would be ignored.

When I was younger a mentor said something to me that stuck. He said: Having freedom and being free does not mean having freadom or being free from the responsibility for your actions or what you say.

This cuts both ways. The person who utters or tweets a potentially insensitive remark deserves to be responsible for what they said IN PROPORTION to the nature, degree and context of the statements. The people choosing to eviscerate them using social media ought to also be responsible in proportion to the consequences of their actions. That would be just and fair all around.

Think before you act.
set up a twitter account and dont link it to your real name. sign up through a vpn, say waht you want and dont worry about it. unless what you say is actually illegal no one can really track you down without getting your login IP address from twitter. People get tracked down because they link it to their PSN/XBOX/FB account or reuse usernames between twitter and somewhere else they have left personal details.

I have a twitter accout that I set up through TOR and a VPN. I use a username I have never used elsewhere. I dont post anything controversial but I would be pretty happy that I could not be traced without someone obtaining a court order requiring twitter to hand over my IP address, even then it would point to a VPN that (supposedly) does not keep logs.
I've been wondering if there was anything like "proper" forwarding in gnupg-agent, and thus at least signature support over SSH connections for remote mail clients.

My use-case: I have a shell server which receives my emails. I use a local client (mutt) to read my mails, but I do not want to save my private key on the server, because it is not 100% under my control. The idea is that my physically local box would hold my private keys, and the agent would simply forward the to-be-signed data from the remote host to my local system, and transmit the signed data back.

When I send encrypted emails, at least those I can easily do on my physical box and send the file over first. It's a bit of an inconvenience, but I can live with that. Being able to sign my mails on that remote shell box without actually putting my keys there is the one thing I'm looking for.

I found some kind of hack for this a year or so back, but now I can't even remember what google-fu I had to employ.
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> "Such as...?"

Ahah, not about to name names - the trouble with openly naming people who are opposed to MRAs/anti-SJWs is that the demographic is also very, very adept at launching internet lynch mobs.

Sadly the events of the past half-year or so have succeeded in silencing some people who would otherwise speak, for fear of being doxxed, swatted, or otherwise harassed (where harassment goes above and beyond receiving angry messages of disapproval).

If the people who have left HN because of the toxicity want to make themselves known, they should do that. It's not my place to direct the people they want to avoid straight to their doorstep.

A good place to start would be the top posters list and seeing who's still around. Many of these folks still read HN but no longer participate in comments. Many read HN and have their commentary elsewhere. I know some of them, I certainly don't know all of them.

> "you'd probably lose some value for actual tech and, particularly, tech issues discussions."

Yeah, this is where idealism and values run head-first into the brick wall of reality, and no one really knows how to fix it.

We like freedom of speech, we dislike heavy-handed moderation especially when it comes to things that inform our views. At the same time we have real instances of abuse, and we have even more instances where extremists in one camp can simply shout down any dissent (extremists, for some reason, have a lot more time to comment on the internet than the rest of us).

I don't think anyone really knows the right answer to this. We want to preserve intelligent discussion, but at the same time give minority views held in good faith a fair shake. The solution thus far has been for people to abandon communities with toxic demographics, but that hasn't really solved the core problem - it's just hit the reset button until the new community itself attracts the wrong crowd.
You'd pay for speed-ups that come from reworking algorithms to make them more efficient, but how do you avoid someone adding wait loops in strategic places and then selling you the software again after taking them out? IBM sells you an increase in processing power for your mainframe by enabling processors that were already there the whole time but disabled by configuration. I don't think I like that business model.
For free or for money?

I believe there are web scraping companies that sell monthly dumps of LinkedIn data, but I don't know off-hand how much something like that would cost.

It would also likely depend on whether you wanted US-only data or worldwide.