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> Replace "offend the wrong person" with "do something really f*cking stupid" - which is what she did - and the outcome seems fair.

And yet if she was a writer for SouthPark or Family Guy, we'd all be laughing at the joke.
Haha, the x86 bacterium. I've been looking for that term for so long.
The "rule" that you're thinking of is Conway's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
The "Council's Assessor Newsletter" caused some confusion with their wording. The Internet Storm Center provides some analysis of the article:

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Did+PCI+Just+Kill+ECommerc...
> A lack of awareness and judgement is.

The only problem is that you don't know what you don't know right up until it smacks you in the face like this.
I honestly thought I was talking to a group of engineering-minded people. This comment? This is where dreams go to die.

But I guess there's no room for improvement, which is why heated seats were never invented in cars, why hand warmers were never invented, why heated jackets don't exist, why we don't have ice packs, etc. Those things would be crazy and useless.
When 1 engineer costs ~$250k+ fully loaded, it isn't that much!

Plus they become good future recruiting targets.
Our culture, or lack thereof, is just unbelievable. If a comedian had made that joke, it likely would have been no problem for him (there would still have been some outrage no doubt), but people assume everything is so serious, even when there is no logical reason to assume so. What infuriates me is that the masses let idiots deny climate change and talk about how vaccines will give you autism without shaming them, yet they destroy people's lives for posting, let's face it, a funny joke. If you want to shame someone for being a scumbag, there are plenty of targets but no one is doing it. If you want to shame someone because you failed to understand the meaning of her statement, however, that seems to be the zeitgeist. Why go after a real target when there are innocent people out there who really cannot defend themselves and whose misery you can really revel in? The irony of the story of the woman who took the picture of the guy telling the joke and then got shamed herself is quite delicious in many ways.

Posting anything on the Internet, whether it's public or not (or rather, you think it's public or not) that you wouldn't feel comfortable sharing with the whole world is just stupid. Maybe people will realize this at some point. Hell, I'm worried about my home NAS that's not connected to the outside world, is behind two firewalls, and is encrypted. Of course, if it's that sensitive, it doesn't belong in any digital form.
hotels.com is owned by Expedia
I've always found that if I know and book ahead of time I can get a massive deal on hotels simply by calling the front desk. It's usually 10-30% cheaper than booking with any service online. I'm not sure why this is the case but if there's a service that can get me front desk rates, I'd be more than happy to switch.
I am an advocate for men's rights for many of the reasons you cite, but I also acknowledge that there really are people who adopt the MRA label who are bitterly misogynist nutjobs who have no interest in a more just and equal society, but are rather the flip-side of those misandric feminists who believe--amongst other things--that "rape is nothing less than a conscious conspiracy by all men against all women" (likely not an exact quote as it's from memory, but Brownmiller says something with the same meaning.)

The problem is that misogynist MRAs disrupt the possibility of positive change the same way misandric feminists like Brownmiller and McKinnon do. Because they share a label with sane people, they allow the enemies of sanity to mount a trivially plausible ad hominem against any proposal to genuinely address the real injustices that men and women face due to the simple fact of being a man or a woman.
I'm ignoring it because it's mostly irrelevant (6% total, ~1% for transmission). If it weren't, we would not have an electric grid.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=105&t=3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...
because of people like you

^Thats quite an assumption to make, no?

For the record, I've never done any of the above.
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> People form a kind of super-being in a mob, a near God-like entity, which can perform powerful acts - go to the moon, solve humanitarian crises, and so on.

I'd hardly call NASA or UNICEF a mob.
Great advice. I especially like the bit about look at their savings. All that said, finding a co-founder is next to impossible. I just straight up gave up on that and focus on product.
You are not your mistakes, and there is a natural human margin of error. Mistakes make us human and it's what every single one of us has in common.

You seem to be a super bright guy who experienced a momentary lapse in judgement fuelled by emotion. We all do this, it's just not always public.

Also- I don't know how old you were at the time this story occurred but according to neuroscience, the frontal lobe doesn't develop until we are 25-27 years old (males develop later than females) and this is exactly the type of mistake the frontal lobe prevents us from making.

I hope you've recovered from this incident and have learned to not take these mistakes too personally...

Even calculators make mistakes.
I see what you're saying and agree that's a rational reason for bringing up past events. But hear me out. My issue was that based on these three events it seems like he continues to like to raise his relative position by slamming other people. The means have changed, where before it was social status ("have you ever even kissed a girl?") to social justice "I would have fired BEN NOORDHUIS if he worked for me and did these despicable things").

I have noticed that a number of the most vocal social justice advocates have similar sort of behavior in their past. There is nothing wrong with advocating for social justice, but to me it's clear that as it has become a socially acceptable way to punish, it has attracted people in whom the desire to socially punish others is strong. Callout culture gives these people their "fix".
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NYT likes to tinker with titles. They don't change the urls as often, so if you look at the url you'll sometimes see the original title.
Yep ... This idea has been around for a long time (Hydrokinetix was building ETS systems in the '80s) but a great battery will allow the technology to go mainstream. It's cool to hear that you've got such a backlog of orders!

Good luck!
Homeaway focuses on vacation rentals and is in a very different market than Expedia and Orbitz.

It's not out of the realm of possibilities, but Expedia and Orbitz are much closer competitors than either would be with Homeaway.
I would encourage anyone against these lynch mob driven decisions to investigate the companies IAC owns and if possible cease doing business with them, and to let them know why. In particular, OKCupid is in their portfolio.
Out of interest, how does Chip and Sign work at an ATM?
Biometrics is horrendous as a single point of identification in security systems.

Fingerprints and a password, sure, but fingerprints only is the worst idea possible.
Well thought-out post, however, your math is singularly reliant on the 30,000$ price tag for the battery and although you did list the source, it's accuracy is in some doubt. First of all, you can pre-buy a replacement Tesla battery for 12,000$(source: found in your same link [1]), secondly, the information is old.

I don't think there is any doubt that the number has come down significant. I'm sure you are aware that Tesla is building out a huge battery plant, significantly increasing lithium batter production ability, this will absolutely bring batter prices down.

I would be extremely surprised if their own internal numbers show a pay-off time of longer than 3 to 5 years. It's not like Tesla doesn't have people who get into the numbers, as the numbers are the only thing that is going to sell.
The problem is that a lot of systems perceives biometric as password, while it really is a user name. Biometric doesn't provide security when there's possibility that people can tamper with it.

Like Bruce Schneier says...
"The lesson is that biometrics work best if the system can verify that the biometric came from the person at the time of verification. The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system."[1]

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.ht...
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Pretty sure there's a pg essay on this. "Unpopular speech is not necessarily bad and wrong" is pretty much, like, the Official Opinion of Hacker News.
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It was, I admit, somewhat of an obscure joke. I realized, after my first sentence, that I couldn't be certain that it was true. So I added a sentinel value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo

Don't despair. Being called a loser does not make you one.
The thing is when you know lisp (or scheme) you understand programming languages much more fundamentally than you would otherwise and so jumping from one programming language to another becomes much easier. (BTW, I hated Scheme in school, but I have since seen the light thanks to SICP.) Overall, I agree with the theme of this sub-thread that non-idiomatic code in any language is a real pain in the ass. I see this everyday when I look at code written by scientists who are smart, driven, motivated people and therein lies the problem.
You can do something like that with YouTube right now - any captioned video will have a rolling transcript window available to open, which you can scroll through and click on to jump around the video in a non-linear fashion.
Actually – good point: it's next to impossible. Where in SF should you look for a cofounder? A friend of mine said only look at folks you've worked with before.
http://www.nrwinvest.com/Business_Guide_englisch/Employees_a...

Apparently, you can also be fired in Germany for "disturbance of the general working environment"
Yes, people are downvoting because Eich is white. That's most certainly the reason. ;)
This is probably because you are running Graphite 0.9.12 which does not have the maxDataPoints feature for the json api, with 0.9.13 it work a lot better. I know of some who run it on raspberry with decent performance, not great but far from 90 seconds.
Wow! Thats amazingly awesome! Is this free to use? How does it work?
I'm still not entirely sure why the problems inherent in single-stream connections (request/response) couldn't be solved simply by removing the artificial RFC-recommended limitation on parallel connections to a server. As the author says, providers have been escaping this limitation for years by simply adding hostname aliases, but has nothing negative to say about it.

Modern HTTP servers are highly concurrent; allowing 100 connections per request doesn't seem like a problem nowadays. And doing so would solve 99% of the browser performance problem without introducing a significantly more complicated multiplexing protocol.
US-only is fine. For money is potentially fine (I've no idea how much something like that would cost), if I knew it was legal - though if there was a legal way to get that data through scraping I'd probably just do that myself :)
It matters because making an offhand joke parodying a stupid person is something that we've all done. This example shows that if you make a little parody joke like that in the wrong medium, your life could permanently pivot 180 degrees for the worst.
Yeah, but I think he was still an undergrad student when he started working on Linux, wasn't he?
> independence from the Russian and American space programs

especially given that the capability for global high-precision strikes with highly-maneuvering hypersonic reentry vehicles is a must-have part of very near future arsenal.
I don't know that we need to go that far. In the US we take the stance that people should be free to do what they want unless what they want to do interferes with other people doing what they want. Where people conflict in their desires is where the law comes in to settle the matter. Whether that system is good or not is an open question, I guess, but it's what we have.

Using that as a rulestick, no one will be negatively impacted by homosexuals getting married. Studies have been done, plenty of places around the globe have tried it with no negative consequences. The courts agree. There's no government interest in preventing gay marriage.
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> I'm not entirely sure of what "Social Justice" means in the US, or how can such a thing be negative

The phrase "social justice" in this context usually refers to things like this:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=social+justic...

http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/top/?sort=top&t=all
The unique 21st-century misery of the online shaming victim
These things are subjective. Presumably Sacco felt that comparing genuinely racist content to someone's sarcastic joke about themselves was apples and oranges as well. I rather do myself.

Put it this way - nobody is against the idea of "people being held responsible for their actions". But it's pretty hard to buy that that's what happened here. I remember when the Sacco thing was trending and I never saw anyone who seemed hurt or angry, or even offended. To the contrary, people were thrilled that some PR asshole was going to get fired but didn't know it yet.
Thanks. We weren't sure it was appropriate going by the Show HN guidelines
Look at that, there is an improvement over forced air. Everyone else said that didn't exist.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, since this is very much not my field, but as I understand it, there are at least 4-5 mathematically equivalent fundamental models of computation, and in practice the Turning machine and the lambda calculus (developed by Turing's thesis adviser ... I gather that was a small world back then) are useful.

E.g. does the additional math you're talking about stand on top of either of those? I don't know (By nature and calling I'm a scientist of the continuous world, not discrete, damnit! :-).

Of course, I'm moving the goalposts by using "Lisp" as a stand in for the lambda calculus (and I remember someone, maybe McCarthy, saying Lisp is what you get after you've read and only understand the first chapter of a book on it :-), which I don't even know at the poets level (but am maybe starting to correct that; don't know if the payoff is worth it to me at this point in my life).
I don't see how it does. The problem is not power, but momentum. You can beam power, but where does your reaction mass come from? Producing the required levels of power is relatively practical, as these things go, but reaction mass is subject to the nasty exponential growth of the rocket equation.

If you're talking something like solar sail off of a laser, the numbers I'm finding[0] say 300MW per N of thrust. I don't think you'll be travelling to the stars anytime soon on that.

[0] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/reactionlessdri...
in for example Eich's case how do you pull him aside and say "stop being a dick by donating to hate, and then trying to run a diverse company?"
I would have thought that voters would generally be pretty furious about the massive economic cost of running these prisons.

Reports like this should wake people up to the over-obsession with incarceration as a punishment: http://cacs.org/research/winners-and-losers-corrections-and-.... Just need to keep banging the drum, and pushing anecdotes on how the cost to incarcerate is often ridiculous compared to the cost of the crime.

Obviously for violent offenders it's a completely different discussion. There are still very serious structural problems, but you certainly can't win that argument on economics alone.
I use PulseAudio on Linux, so that must be why. Is it possibly to get Firefox on Windows to use ASIO4all?
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Which algorithms do you use in your applications and how do you use them?
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The only people that can get away with a tweet like that are stand up comedians. The tweet in the article sounds almost verbatim what a comedian like Amy Schumer would say on stage.I guess it is a reality of social media. I dont know that I have ever felt compelled to police social media. Sure it takes so little investment to involve yourself in some drama that in real life would require more work, and most peoples sense of shame prevents them from partaking in.

I almost wonder if the best way to handle a scenario like this is to go FULL TROLL MODE and up the ante. Blow out your own credibility so that people realize they are wasting their energy on nonsense.
For the record, if the last argument of a Golang function is variadic, you can still pass an array to it - you just have to transform the array into variadic args by appending `...` to it. So adopting the type signature above could give you the best of both worlds - the ability to use one-off tag combinations inline, but also the ability to pass predefined arrays of tags.
This user submitted for the same company 2 days ago[1] and was subsequently flag-killed, it's no surprised that they sponsored to write this article for TechCrunch as well.

Their product is Bacopa + L-Theanine + Caffeine, which other than the caffeine, shows little nootropic properties. L-Theanine has only been weakly shown to relax people, and has had no scientific consensus that it improves attention.[2] Bacopa has only 1 study citing any enhancements from attention, but those people had ADD; the only positive was a majority consensus that bacopa enhanced memory, but required significant (4-6 weeks) dosage in order to see measurable results.[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9028594

[2] http://examine.com/supplements/Theanine/

[3] http://examine.com/supplements/Bacopa+monnieri/
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French guy here as well, and this was exactly my reaction. It seemed very exotic, this notion that an employer was allowed to fire you just because a bunch of people on the Internet have started disliking you in a vocal way because of something you said (as an individual, not reflecting your employer's opinion, not illegal).

This feels like the main issue here. Barring substantial improvements in everyone's maturity, you won't be able to prevent random people on the Internet from focusing on you for whatever reason. The actual individual actions that follow, however (the employer arbitrarily sacking you, people refusing you service, people harassing you, etc.) are what crosses the line, in my opinion.
But as someone who makes free content, you'll know how nice it is when you get lots more views/downloads/clicks (etc) of your content. Captioning enables that because not only do you reach visitors who are unable to hear, but you also reach non-English speakers in the Entire Rest Of The World who can with a few clicks automatically translate those captions into the language which they speak.

More viewers is more better. Captions are a really easy way to achieve that.
25-35% more efficient for single axis tracking panels vs. non tracking. Distribution losses are ~6%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_tracker#Basic_concept

http://energyinformative.org/solar-panel-tracking-systems
thats a easy 12500$ for a hack...but still you cracked it which many would ignored it..
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Which is safer in terms of fires than 110
Hell, even if the direct hotel booking is a little more expensive, I still go that route. I've been burned by hotels referring me to Expedia when problems arose. They can't do that when you're direct booked. I still use the travels sites for shopping purposes, then visit the hotel's site directly when I've made a decision.

(Maybe I should be staying at better places)
There isn't any evidence for Zermatism, and it is a crackpot theory, but as of now there is also the possibility that this 'unknown species' is indeed the Yeti. We shall see!

EDIT: I admire your slack.
Sometimes I wish I could give Reddit Gold for comments on Hacker News.
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It's a great incentive to not sell it on the black market.
How one bad line of code shut down UK air traffic for an hour
You are right, but I still don't think that is the major cause of all the mistreatment and high incarceration.

Voters love "tough on crime" politicians. At a local level, being weak on crime is a death sentence.

Until you convince the voters that throwing people in jail is a mistake, you'll get this.
Maybe mob is one end of the spectrum, and "organized space-exploration organization" is the other end.
Since, we'll never know the context, better call her a racist, publicly shame her. and get her fired!
No, but why do you believe so?
I mean, in general, if I see the term "mansplain" on the internet with no context, I'm going to assume the usage is in line with what's described on urban dictionary. Just because that's how it's actually predominantly used. This is the first usage I've ever seen that was something else. So it's not totally unreasonable.
I hadn't actually seen their Code, it looks like they actually use `DebugWithTags([]string, string, ...interface{})`. So the `...interface{}` is the blocker here, as it appears in every logger that they have.

Though, i would agree that the order should be switched. Eg, `DebugWithTags(string, []string, ...interface{})`
Awesome stuff @hhaidar! I'm sure a bunch of people will love the fact that logs and data exist on their servers. I'm sure it'll resolve some privacy/internal regulation concerns.

Also, hi from Toronto!
I work out of CSI at Bloor + Bathurst. Nice to see another Torontonian on here :)
It's very generous of them to do this work and give it away, but consider paying for what you are getting.
Ignore the gurus (including me)
For now, banks are only doing chip+sig on credit cards. I imagine chip+pin on debit cards for ATMs is a 2016 issue.
As I understand it the big problem is the "duck curve," the spike in demand that occurs immediately as the sun sets when there's a lot of solar. If the batteries could smooth that out, that'd be pretty huge in helping solar adoption.
Really this is more of a question of what domain you work in.

Since most algorithms apply to very specific data and needs of that data to do something.
I doubt the "black market" would pay much of anything for this bug, because, like most severe web vulnerabilities, it has no half-life.
"One of the drawbacks with HTTP 1.1 is that when a HTTP message has sent off with a Content-Length of a certain size, you can't easily just stop it. Sure you can often (but not always – I'll skip the lengthy reasoning of exactly why here) disconnect the TCP connection"

Can someone give me more of a hint of that reasoning so that I can at least search for it? I'm intrigued, but the search terms I'm trying all come back with explanations of why you might need Content-Length, a different issue.
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Staring at the circles had a very odd mental effect for me. After playing a few rounds other websites I look at seems very square, straight, and ridged.
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I disagree. Yes, fingerprints can be faked. But it is much harder to fake a fingerprint than to discover a passcode of a casual user by just watching them type it.

I'm absolutely sure that a much smaller percentage of fingerprint protected phones are accessed by unauthorized persons than passcode or password protected phones.