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> that time Ben Noordhuis was forced out of the Node community because of a SJW hate mob enraged over a pronoun

bcantrill commented on this above, with more authority than I could address this with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041086

Also, it's worth noting Ben Noordhuis wasn't forced out of the Node community - just the core contribution team (although I do believe he chose to take a break afterward). His company, StrongLoop, would go on to be the owners of the Express repo, and Ben Noordhuis is one of the contributors to IO.js.
>it's hard to escape the feeling that someone from an alien species reading it and considering the world we live in would not immediately start laughing from the utter satire it is.

and after laughing enough they would just release a similar "specicide" gene mutation into human population to clean the space for the next attempt at intelligent species as this round has clearly been failing.
Freedom.js is a framework for building peer-to-peer web apps
I'm kind of blown away by the down votes you're getting. I would be curious to hear why people are down voting?
Aaah. But if those are official university Youtube "channels" or whatever they're called as they appear to be, does that matter?

Doesn't matter if "MIT goes dark" if the servers are Google's or MIT's.
If you've got a script then software like CMU Sphinx (open source) can use voice recognition to align the words of the script with the time of the soundtrack. Services like YouTube will even do that for you, if you can provide the bare minimum of a transcript.

If even that sounds too hard, you can let YouTube's automatic subtitling produce an initial transcript - sometimes this can be surprisingly good, depending on audio quality and speaker clarity - and just fix up the mistakes yourself.

I'm not saying it's painless (and like you I come from a fansubbing background) but it's well worth the time, and it's easier now than it has ever been.

If you don't want to do it yourself, services like zencaptions.com will caption your video for just $1 per minute.

We've come a long way - it has never, ever, been this easy and cheap to do this stuff.

(Am a little sad to see that I'm being downvoted for saying that, in all honesty. I'm not endorsing this particular lawsuit, just making a general point overall that access is good.)
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We've seen some albums and books released as apps, why not larger film/tv projects.
Or if Apple could just pluck those @3x files out of the bundle before it downloads.
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It seems like many places in the US that accept chipped cards don't even ask for a signature. I put in the card, it asks to verify the amount, and then processes it. I've had some large (>$100) transactions get approved with just a card, no PIN or signature.

I can't recall a single time I've had to enter a PIN or sign for an EMV transaction.
Like most business then, I guess
> To play devil's advocate, if you fund the captioning, fewer people will do it for free.

Not necessarily. They still aren't obligated to close-caption any materials for free — they just have to not provide any materials.
In light of Harvard's rhetoric, it is reasonable to expect excellence of this sort. However, with respect to rhetoric about the spirit of a law, it seems to be that they ought to receive charges of hypocrisy.

The civil lawsuit is a step above and beyond this, and I for one don't know that "poetic justice" is the best foundation for a legal regime...
Nobody invests time and money in a hypothesis they don't already have an educated guess it might be true.
Heck, I'm a white male, and I've gotten mistaken as en employee at the big box hardware store dozens of times.

I note that the article doesn't compare the experience of women of color versus any other demographic.

As Lord Kelvin said: "“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
None.

I haven't implemented a single computer science-style algorithm since I graduated. Even the rare times I need one there are perfect (i.e. bug free/edge case free) pre-existing examples available.

This is likely true for the silent majority who are doing CRUD or web development.
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Marx advocated the use of a state to transition society to a stateless condition. This period of socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, is the authoritarian streak that led to the Marx/Bakunin break.
Would this be enough to store Wikipedia locally on the phone?
Wouldn't this just trade effectively more or less at the same price as corporate bonds?

Here is this piece of paper, I promise you it is worth this much at this time.
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I'm definitely going to look into this now. I did some work for a journalism class that was funded by the Knight Foundation so not sure why it never occurred to me to look into them further. Thanks
Unless you jailbreak, then you can tether all you want, but you still have to use an app for it instead of just enabling tethering in settings.
A weak RNG may create an opportunity for successful cryptanalysis. This can especially be a problems on virtual hardware/platforms that don't have a mechanism for keeping a good random seed, and have predictable hardware events, et cetera.
I have fond childhood memories of the "Mathematica" exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, where there was a large physical copy of one of these machines.

Also, "quincunx" is a great word.
Ruining his aunt's birthday memories?

It would ultimately be the hapless users who suffer in some way.
BDSM has been shown to improve mental health in a number of ways. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12192/abstrac...
I used to be a lecturer, I was told one of my students was one of the biggest pirate operators in London.
I have also the same problem. If I search in Google, and click on a search result. I don't go to the URL of the search result, but to Bing, in the URL it says 'search.searchbenny.com'
How do you remove this? I have a Mac and use Safari
My understanding of the law is that a reasonable accommodation must be made when requested, not that everything must always be ADA compliant for all disabilities. One may conceive of different disabilities for which two reasonable accommodations might be mutually exclusive, so requiring two or more mutually exclusive accommodations to always be present is by definition unreasonable. Of course, it isn't impossible or unreasonable to caption a video; but it might be so expensive to caption all videos as to have the result that some just won't bother to post them. That would be unfortunate.
I also left this as a comment:

I've seen this too, and I notice in particular that phones and Facebook seem to be bad for relationships (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/facebook-and-cellph... ; "Facebook" now stands in for any number of other web communication platforms). Perhaps phones just accelerate the weaknesses of already weak relationships, but I'm not so sure: they seem to sap people of the ability to be present with their significant other, while simultaneously offering a slippery slope towards new relationships.
For her, it's remembering and being able to put in any number sequence, so in this case, she really can't.
Penn&Teller covered the ADA in this episode of their TV Series Bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLfo979TDaY . The sue first model of accessibility is sickening especially in this case.
It should have been written as: "a point of comparison is that all US businesses aren't older than 239 years." And then something about what US businesses are older than 100.

They weren't really comparing anything.
I've loved this series. The fact that you can hold the game constant, yet so many other things fluctuate is surprising. Turns out it takes us years to make decent discoveries even in video games.
People believe they can fight sexism with sexism and racism with racism, based on what amounts to faith, as near as I can tell.
If you're near Boston/Cambridge, the Clojure Meetup Group is showing a live video of William Byrd talking about this tonight.

http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Clojure-Group/events/218650142/
Yes, my newly "unlocked" Sprint iPhone 5 will work fine overseas. It's specifically on non-Sprint domestic carriers where it won't work.
And you have more power since you don't "need" the job you can be a better negotiator.
It's more consistent with the printf-style counterparts:

func (logger *LoggerImpl) DebugWithTagsf(tags []string, fmt string, args ...interface{}) {
logger.logwithformat(DEBUG, tags, fmt, args...)
}
Suboptimal in what way? We create, develop, improve because we are unsatisfied, not because we are happy.
Exactly. That's how I thought it sounded.

But is it my responsibility to spend time reporting this to them? Should I leave the vulnerability for others to take advantage of, if they come across it? How do I know that others aren't already doing so?

With this specific vulnerability it could be used it to build an address book of emails, {home,work}addresses, telephone numbers etc; given the nature of the app.
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The title is slightly click-baity, since the article itself presents this:

> 48% of Black women and 46.9% of Latinas report having been mistaken for administrative or custodial staff.

But obviously, the assumption still reflects really poorly! :/
> having the ability to verify a PIN and the ability to reset the ‘tries’ counter, one can trivially check every possible PIN automatically until the correct PIN is found.

This is the key part for me. Being able to brute-force a pin is a huge vulnerability.
First beware this is already an old blog article from the 10th of August 2013.

To me, the article seems (at least) incorrect at two points:

1. The number of PIN retries cannot be reset. The command described to perform this reset in the blog post is the same as for checking the tries. Checking the tries just doesn't reset the number of tries, only providing the correct PIN does. But please prove me wrong by supplying the correct command to reset the PIN tries...

The original paper about this http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/9-2.pdf describes a way to have 2 'free' guesses, but after those 2 guesses, you'll need to try again with a correct PIN. On a hacked reader, you could eventually find out someones PIN if the person uses the reader enough.
Once the retries are exhausted, the card is blocked. Beware you'll need up-to 10.000 guesses, so up-to 5000 usages of the card.
(note it is actually a little bit less, because not all PIN codes are allowed on production cards)

2. With EMV cards issued the last few years, the Track2 equivalent data on the EMV chip does not contain correct, usable data to create a magstripe card from. The Pin Verification Value in the EMV Track2 Equivalent data record is set to all zeros instead of the original PVV on the magstripe, rendering it pretty useless. So in short, you cannot create a working magstripe card with PIN by using data from the EMV chip.
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No, according to this article[1], the English database alone is 10 GB compressed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
After reading portions of that study, I find it hard to make meaningful comparisons across them. The cited source's two conditions seem to be fairly close in many respects IMHO:

"The first group was housed in individual stainless steel cages (18 x 25 x 18 cm) that prevented tactile and visual contact among the rats."

"The second condition consisted of rats housed in groups of 10 in a large stainless steel cage (45 x 101 x 39 cm) that permitted social contact; these rats displayed normal play behavior, dominance struggles, and social grooming."

Okay, one rat in 450 cm^2 vs 10 rats in 4545 cm^2, both in steel cages. Compared to Rat Park, which was 8.8m^2 (close to twice the size), and was specifically not a steel cage[1]. Then again, I doubt this study was done specifically to confirm or refute the earlier experiment, but to test further hypotheses in the same area.

1: http://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/14...
Most of these videos are already being captioned. What's needed in large part is just higher quality captions. Nobody is shutting anything down for the mere lack of a better captioning system.
So here's the thing I've always been a little fuzzy on. bnoodhuis' reversion said (to isaacs) "All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert."

The reaction would seem to indicate that this is like telling Linus Torvalds he needs approval to land patches in Linux. Was there anything codified anywhere explaining that this was the case? Did that rule only apply for code and not docs changes? Was the sign-off rule not actually written down anywhere?
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A recent study of videos captioned by Discovery Digital Networks showed a 7-15% increase in views to captioned videos, compared to non-captioned equivalents. Genuinely properly studied and controlled to remove any other factors.

Subtitling is not hard. It really isn't. You don't have to do it if you don't want to, but there are many genuine, measurable benefits if you do.
What's the "discriminatory cause" you're talking about here?
Reply to your edit:

Thanks.

Maybe the xxx.org came across wrong. My intention was a government organisation, nothing nefarious.
> The effort of putting closed captions on your informal video would be much too great.

$1 per minute (if you farm it out) or even less if you do it yourself. In exchange you get 7-15% more views - is that really an unbearable deal?
In the Bayesian and inductive-logical view of probability theory, you must define a probability distribution with respect to an information set. That set formalizes your observations of (and assumptions about) the state of the universe, and the entropy of the resulting distribution quantifies the quality of your knowledge about the universe.

From that perspective, the second law of thermodynamics simply says that the quality of your knowledge about the universe with respect to an information set assembled at time t degrades as you move from t out into the future. Put like that, it seems rather obvious, I think.

Quantum theory further tells us that it's not possible to assemble an information set that is complete, in either the sense that (a) we can get a perfect picture of the universe as it is right now, or that (b) the quality of our information won't degrade over time. (The two senses are equivalent, and you can probably see why.)

So Laplace's demon can't exist. Which isn't terribly surprising to the modern mind, either, but I can imagine how scientists of a previous era might have taken the news badly.
nice trick!

here a JS implementation

function isPrime(n) {
var re = /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/;
var s = [];
while (n -- > 0)
s.push(1);
return !re.test(s.join(''));
}
Ok but when I wrote fired, I was thinking about permanent position (CDI). The article state that he has been forced to quit his job rather than being fired, which is not really clear. His position may has just been a seasonal one as the place he was working in is apparently opened during summer only.
"The first month was a little complicated to endure, but the current benefit of being able to go two or three days without a shower and still looking good outweighs it by far."

Not sure after three days without a shower my main concern would be how my hair looks
Do you deny my statement that "the vast majority of" MIT's endowment is earmarked, so it cannot arbitrarily reprogram that money to this purpose? From the insider's viewpoint, MIT has not been "wealthy" since the end Cold War and got hard hit by the Great Recession, although I haven't checked details as of the last few years.

This has entered the legal arena. It's not hard to imagine the red tape of the remedies of a settlement or lawsuit loss being significant, very possibly exceeding the costs of the closed captioning (e.g. mandatory QA). In this context, the idea this quality problem could be addressed by crowd-sourcing is patently ludicrous.

Does anyone have a better solution than Google, which is where the cited bad captions apparently come from? Yeah, it's "a thing" alright, a thing that just handed MIT a nasty, no win lawsuit.
The US Army has them beat.

About 10 years ago they released a first person shooter called "America's Army." It was free, it was mac compatible, and for a kid that wasn't really supposed to be video gaming that was a killer combination. When they stopped updating the mac version I started poking around the files to see if I could backport some of the maps from the newer PC version to the older mac version. One of the first things I implemented was texture import/export. I wanted it to work on entire folders at a time and I didn't want to rely on EXIF annotations to store the pixel format of textures so I relied on the hack of looking at the histogram to see if an image should be stored in the compressed format.

At first I thought I had a bug: I knew for a fact that some textures were stored uncompressed (RGBA8) and some were stored compressed (DXT3,5) but they were all importing as compressed. Turns out the bug wasn't in my code. Someone had lossfully compressed the textures and then stored the compressed images in an uncompressed format.

I sent the devs an email letting them know how they could save ~50% of their download size at no further loss of quality by re-enabling compression. I never got a direct response but the next day they banned me for hacking. Naturally, when the next version of the game came out the problem still wasn't fixed.

A few years later I told my parents. My father, who had served in the army, just laughed and said "Now that's the Army I remember!"
So this whole line of argument simply boils down to wanting a 64GB iPhone to be $100 cheaper?

(edit: downvote by all means, but I don't see any other logic at work here - anyone feel like explaining?)
Or better yet:
http://www.tacocopter.com
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Adding Captions to YouTube Videos Increases Views Significantly
Great, I was introduced to ggplot2 via your note in the footer in articles you've shared in the past. This helps a great deal. Thanks Max! :)

ps: Is there a way to generate vector outputs?
Bluntly, when I make and release content for free I'm generally not very interested in paying for small boost in user numbers. Especially since for most videos, that 7-15% boost is maybe ten views.
Why only captions? Why not require translations into all 300+ languages? I mean there are billions of people who can't understand whatever language the video is in and therefore can't access these videos.

It seems to me if it's the responsibility of people who can't understand the video to deal with that themselves (learn the language, hire a translator, etc...). Why is that different if your language is sign language or something else?
The original inventors of such technology are AC Propulsion [1] (coincidentally, the same company that Tesla licensed the early drivetrain for the roadster from). They referred to it as "vehicle-to-grid" (V2G) technology. Some interesting history in this idea - it's taken somebody like Elon Musk and a company like Tesla to start looking at implementing this technology in production/commodity markets.

[1] https://www.acpropulsion.com/products-v2g.html
While true, this is a pain point for Apple and app developers. The upgrade rate to iOS 8 is hurt by the large number of people that do not have enough disk space left available on their phone. In retrospect, 16GB is penny wise, pound foolish for Apple.
I think that function is meant to set the debug level, not to produce a log output...
update: WoSign now has a new page https://buy.wosign.com/free/ which is in English, works without creating a account first and wraps up all the steps in one simple page.
The issue with "Submit request contains invalid data" some people ran into was fixed as well :)
I'm pretty sure it's because of Github's limited scope levels.

Slack has a similar thing, but they call it out in support docs - see here:
https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201824286-Settin...

Actually, I just had a dig through their FAQ and Coveralls answers this:
https://coveralls.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201344219-Wh...

So basically it's a limitation on Github's side, by not providing a read-only scope for repos.
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My wife is highly satisfied with her IUD. You can get it installed and then it works for ten years without any trouble. You don't need to put condoms on (which do diminish sensation) at an awkward moment. You don't have to remember to take pills (with side effects) or to insert a cervical cap. You just have sex when you like and don't think about birth control.

However, the IUD works best in the case of mutually monogamous relationships. Even if she was loyal but I was screwing around, that would greatly increase her chances of painful and serious complications since she'd be exposed to a much wider microbiome of things I bring home.

We had a friend who has had a somewhat disorganized sex life involving multiple terminations of unwanted pregnancies with different partners and she got an IUD after hearing our glowing testimonials.

Not long after it got infected; there was not any permanent damage but it was an unpleasant experience and it deprived her from what is otherwise one of the best forms of birth control.

I can't say for sure that her disorganized sex life led to her IUD failure, but I'd be concerned that young women who are practicing something in the spectrum between casual sex and serial monogamy with boys that are doing the same won't have as good results as committed couples do.
Binary search- to find the file that causing the build to break .

Barrier pattern to deal with threads, although I mostly can let libraries deal with that.

Those are two I can remember using recently. I once worked on a very big graph search problem using A* and some other algorithms. That was fun.
This makes no sense. What's wrong with outsourcing something you're not very good at?

I don't speak Hindi, I'll happoly outsource the translation of video to an agency that can do this for me.

Same with sign language, I don't know it. I'll happily outsource to an agency that can do the sign language translation.

Care to explain why you think I should have the skills inhouse to suport multiple types of accessibility when those skills can be hired in via a third party?
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Apple has such a system. It's called 2FA. The fact you don't know that doesn't do much for the credibility of your position.
> The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software

Why is this the case? I would have thought it's the same in principle whether it's a central Slack server, or a central FooMumble server running Let's Chat.

(Difficulty of implementation might be high, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?)
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