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Yes, kindness is incredibly exhausting. It requires you to consider the impact of what you say and do, and not just blindly forge ahead. Every single time you do or say something. It takes quite a bit of energy to do that, and just ignoring other people's emotions makes life much easier.

But dealing with an unkind person is also exhausting. And many people will, at some point, choose to not interact with that person unless absolutely necessary. That might be worth considering as well.

Does that mean you have to constantly agree with others? Not at all. But there are different ways of disagreement. One choice is "Well, you're wrong, and stupid, and here's my way". Another one is saying "I hear what you said, and I acknowledge you feel that way. But I'd like to point out there are things you might have missed". Sometimes, pointing out those missed items is the kindness.

Fake kindness - "I love everybody so much, and we all should just relax more" - is something you rightfully abhor. And I think you are right that it is a plaything of the privileged.

But concern for another person's wellbeing? I've experienced it from a wide gamut of people of all ages and classes. From a 3-year old sharing their cake, to a middle-aged manager taking hours to help me understand my career, to a 80-year old woman living on a meagre income, concerned people living next to her would feel welcome in the neighborhood.

If I could ask a favor of you, consider that kindness. Not the reshared Vonnegut quotes, but simply living with an awareness of others emotions. Not in deference to those emotions, but with respect for them.
It's an interesting idea. I wonder if something like this could be rigged up in Visual Studio, maybe using Rosyln?
Writing a custom version of chrome that can export those things is trivial :) If there is demand, there will be solution provided.
I've wanted this for ages for run filming! Excited to see if tracking works well.........
Agreed. This (indirectly linked from the op) has code: http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/jquery.easing.1.3.js
Not only that, but they have to very carefully keep the rest of their hand from touching the drawing surface as they hold the stylus. An active stylus is far better, letting you rest or brush your palm against the screen without interfering with anything.

If they're going to market this as taking care of all the fiddly bits and letting you just be creative, then they should really take care of all the fiddly bits.
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> I don't think Rust was ever intended to be primarily a research language.

Indeed, Graydon chose the name "Rust" specifically because he wanted to avoid cutting-edge language features in favour of old, well-tested ones.

(Reasonable people could disagree whether the 1.0 language meets that goal, but it was a goal.)
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Agreed. I will never share anything I make with HN for this reason.

We all know the last 20% (polish) takes 80% of the work, and isn't the fun stuff. Yet that's generally what gets criticized when someone shares a link.

For any of my hobby projects, it's about making a POC or rickety MVP. I want to build things and learn quickly, not doing the last 20% schlub work that eats at my time to learn something else. Because of that, and what I've seen of the reception to other hobby projects, I have determined that HN is not an appropriate forum for me to share projects with.
Unless you're sorting >2<number of bits / element> elements, that logarithmic factor will be better than the constant of radix sort.

Asymptotic complexity with (sub)logarithmic factors is iffy at best, and this is a shining example thereof.
i used to go through a lot of head scratching when doing manual testing, before discovering the joys of cmd-shift-r
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Like most people, I'm not normally a Comcast fan, but this is really interesting.

It's really convenient in San Francisco because I can almost always find a network to connect to, but I do wonder about security implications of having this feature enabled by default on my home router.
One could argue Mozilla was quite purist when they ejected Brendan Eich because his personal beliefs were not shared by fellow employees... but more on that later.

Perhaps the real reason Brendan Eich was thrown out of Mozilla was because he didn't embrace DRM and EME? Given his stature as founder of Mozilla and creator of Javascript, he could have posed a significant roadblock if he had decided to reject EME's inclusion in Firefox.

If you put on your tinfoil hat, recall that Brendan's donation to Prop 8 was public information for several years... before it suddenly became an issue.

>"So long as people want Hollywood movies, and Hollywood is used to getting its way, and DRM vendors are pushing to perpetuate this and codify it, and put it under a fig leaf from the W3C, we have a real problem.".

http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/brendan...
Well, the site already uses DNS as an escape hatch for getting a pointer to content, so setting up a http-redirector might be a good idea...
Installer please.
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First registered in 1999.

It used to be pretty easy to get random little .com domain names before they got real cheap and every single word, short string and misspelling got bought.

eg I own a three letter .net that I don't even use.
Mostly humor, but a little pessimism as well. A little hard to imagine, but I was thinking of a scenario in the future where a news report on some cyclist accident will not only mention "the cyclist was not wearing a helmet", but also "the cyclist did not apply hi-visibility paint".

Thanks for the link, I was not aware of other Volvo technologies for cyclist safety. It seems Volvo does genuinely care for cyclists. I was wary that they were continuing a precedent of saddling cyclists with the responsibility in an accident, but if they are doing things on the vehicle side, then its a two-pronged assault for increasing cyclist safety, and something I can get behind.
I think what the OP meant was that it is interesting that MS forked Node, and not the io.js project that's more advanced than Node.

IMO it's not too surprising - it's relatively simple to fast forward to io.js from where it is now, wheras reverse engineering it backwards to Node compatibility would be mayhem.
I think in most states, when you obtain a warrant you can't collect evidence for an unrelated crime and use that for future prosecution.
Sigh, the obligatory personal judgment about the other. Though, this one was one of the kinder ones. Some things you concluded are right, others not so.

Text-based communication is too prone to misunderstandings. I didn't do identity politics, and I certainly didn't mean to.

I guess I'm just more critic towards religion than you, and thus I favored - in contrast to you - Aral's attack at the Abhramistic revelation-based religions.

I'm really curious about what you think about Carl Sagan's, Richard Feynman's, Richard Dawkins' and Richard Lawrence's view towards religion. Their attitudes went from derision over serious and aggressive critique to not putting up to talk to them. Do you think they did identity politics?
> It's one thing to represent things in a symbolic, simplistic or minimalistic style. It's another thing to feign technological disadvantage.

Different in what ways? It's a perfectly valid and common artistic resource to "feign disadvantage", limiting the colors, the subject, the perspective or, yes, the resolution.

If I understood the article, the author acknowledges the historical limitations of the "pixelated look", states he and an "insular" community of artists like it by choice, and at the same time he also acknowledges to the general public, the pixelated look is bizarre (what he calls the "pixel tax"), and therefore he understands he must change with the times. And in the end, he more or less concludes that good art is good art, regardless of the specific style.
I prefer flipped smileys. (:
Massive blast from the past. Slime games were awesome. I spend a ton of time in the highschool library playing volleyball.
I think they guy behind the AI in the one I played was an aussie guy called Daniel Wedge. We used to play on his University provided page. Slime Cricket was great too
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Yes, in fields where precision is prized above speed, experimentalists can sit on controversial results for a long time looking for the cause of a discrepancy.

If I tell you that General Relativity is fine, and Einstein's a little more right, you might be impressed and give me a job. If I report that there's something unexpected about gravity at distances less than a millimeter, and I'm not absolutely correct, it might end my career.

Irreversibly-unblinded blind experiments are a technical way to solve this problem (I just unblinded my thesis work a week ago. Gravity turned out fine, after a clerical glitch.), but it does not solve the social stigma that can be attached to someone who has made a measurement ultimately found to be incorrect.
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I doubt they had any trouble seeing the decline. The question is what should they have done?

Competing directly with cable companies in wiring up homes for broadband is a mug's game. This was before it was reasonable to do with fiber and they didn't have anything like Google's freighters full of cash.

So they rode it down. That was probably the right thing to do - their dial up business is still there and still profitable. They have some viable properties on the content side, which is about the best you could have expected without having them get into an entirely new business (like search).
How many numbers do you need? It isn't just a matter of trial and error is it?
Why not blame youtube as well?
>Citation needed.It's Germany's money that's bankrolling the bailouts, and as far as I can tell (from quite some distance away, mind you)

First, it's not just about the current bailout. It's a pattern of behavior going back to the eighties, and especially evident after the re-union with East Germany, and it has to do with control of EU directives and policies (including, but not limited to, monetary policies).

(Or rather, one could say, it's a pattern of behavior going back to the first and second world wars, as the whole European Union, as an initiative was thought up to constrain future German foul-play ( http://www.amazon.com/The-New-World-Perry-Anderson/dp/184467... )).

>It's Germany's money that's bankrolling the bailouts, and as far as I can tell

Not really. In fact they could care less about Greece or the South in general, it's about saving their banks and using tax-payer money to siphon it to the German (and French etc) equivalent of Wall Street:

http://www.economist.com/node/18560535

http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2013/11/11/dirty-secret-euro-zo...

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-09-12/is-germany-r...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-11/crisis-sav...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/germany-profiting...

https://euobserver.com/economic/114231
> I have rarely seen a web API that uses anything other than straightforward JSON.

There are differences between HTML vs. AJAX+JSON+Javascript+DOM. JSON has a lot less of a schema than HTML. You don't have to execute custom code from a remote server to render plain HTML. Client-side rendering is more complex for the client. A Javascript-based page is typically going to require more requests for remote resources than inline HTML, potentially meaning more bandwidth and caching/archiving costs. I can't quite put my finger on the implications right now, but I wanted to note that "JSON is a standard." doesn't mean much to me, since JSON is not comparable to HTML.
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I'm having a really hard time writing this without snark, so forgive me if any of it comes through:

In reality letting him stay would've been interpreted as an endorsement by all the people making a huge fuss about it

Those people "making a huge fuss about it" were denied equal rights for an additional six years thanks, in part, to Eich. Are you suggesting they should have just shut up? Where do you draw the line?

Diversity and inclusion should mean including people who don't agree with diversity and inclusion.

We're going to have to disagree on that. Rights are rights - I don't see how tolerating someone who thinks gays are inferior is one whit different than tolerating someone who thinks blacks or women are inferior.
> I think in most states, when you obtain a warrant you can't collect evidence for an unrelated crime and use that for future prosecution.

As I understand it, generally:

If, in the course of executing a warrant, you find items that meet the description in the warrant but which provide evidence of a different crime than the one that motivated the warrant, you can seize them and use them for future prosecution.

If, in the course of executing a warrant, you discover items that are not what is described in the warrant but which would provide evidence of another crime, you generally, IIRC, cannot seize them, but your discovery of them during the execution of the warrant can support an affidavit for a new warrant identifying them.
How can he be biased, beyond his love of pixel art? He more or less concludes pixel art is not the best choice, and he sides with the public's opinion on this issue. Read the comments. He is not blaming anyone for this "pixel tax".

To my eyes, the SF4 Chun Li is infinitely inferior to SF3, and I'm not even an animator. And haven't played either game, so I truly have no preconceptions at all in this case.
The effectiveness of emoticons has been greatly diminished by interfaces that rewrite them as emoji. While I can cope with someone adding an accent to their writing with an emoitcon, when it turns into an emoji I completely discount the writing. Something about the yellow pacman face in various poses ruins a conversation for me.

Oh, and it blows to copy-and-paste code into one of those blasted chat programs... hateful things.
Damn fine time to push for a raise!
Unless of course they invent their own WhatsApp, as many other regions have done. I mean, WeChat anyone? Chinese people refuse to use anything but that.
A strawman might hurt someone if it gets knocked over easily, but we don't see the government stepping in to stop people building them up all the time!
Which I don't think anyone knows how to do.

Do they really not? Seems pretty simple to just make regular small family apartments. If the apartment you're building looks like this: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/04/On...

then it's probably going to attract the uber-rich. Why not just make a bunch of boring utilitarian apartments (not crappy ones, just high bang for the buck) and set restrictions on the scope of improvements allowed?
My bad, will fix it :)
Interesting; I was recently binge-reading some old blog posts and came across this[1] not dissimilar claim from 2012. Maybe it wasn't so crazy after all.

[1] http://squid314.livejournal.com/320770.html?thread=2386178
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I didn't like his art style either, but I don't think it invalidates the rest of the article.
"Mission statement" was incorrect. Please mentally replace that phrase with "community guidelines and company history".
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IMO, shorter comments much more clearly express ideas.

I hate this attitude. It reeks of privilege and naivety of the working world outside the speaker's bubble. But I digress.

team got their work done without trying to play "the game" too hard. Almost everyone else in the company would fight them to gain control over a certain aspect of his account then never ever doing any work towards it, forcing my dad's team to pick up the slack for everyone else while they took the credit.

A friend in middle management let slip that they were the only profitable account in the entire division, and their customer was the only one happy A new CTO decides to lay off almost the entire team on the only profitable account in the whole division and replace them with offshore contractors. Remaining members of the team got out of there ASAP.

Said contractors barely spoke English...

$BIGCO tried to hire back the laid off team members, but, they were all able to get new jobs in the mean time. Service quality plummeted, the customer decided not to renew their contract. A few months later, $BIGCO decided to get out of $BUSINESS and laid off the rest of the division.
They're using the land/housing that could otherwise be used by someone who actually does live there. Just because you're choosing not to spend your time there shouldn't matter.
What an odd post. Speaking of irony, I find it hilarious that you feel the need to single out "tumblerinas" while inflicting us with the details of your ponderings on the nature of human kindness (apparently it's inherently insincere!).

But you still don't seem to have a point beyond that it isn't good to ignore real conflict while faking nice and it's annoying when affluent people assume all people can adopt their lifestyle.

I'd suggest you go back to basics and figure out what it could mean to be kind to others while still getting what you need and not being a doormat. Because at this rate you'll soon start accidentally quoting Mean Girls and treating it as a coherent life philosophy.
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not sure if this is the same thing, but i've seen something like this a few months ago. To connect to the interwebs, just select the "xfinitywifi" network to connect to, then sign in to xfinity account in the landing page! ..

..BUT

the connection sucked since the signal was from other units in my apt. building....
Vision works for animals, and a lot of people are working very hard to do it for computers. Google "UAV visual SLAM" for examples.

LIDAR works already but is heavy, power hungry and expensive. Not good for these small vehicles.
Great quote. "Too momentous for the medium" reminded me of the intensity created by Sleigh Bell's purposefully overblown beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSHJjYwGJNA
> ...there are many technical roadblocks with getting the pixels to stay blocky and render the way you want.

"These days, thought, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness"
That's interesting, I see a white page for a second or two and I get redirected. If something else is happening for you, would you mind sending me a DM on twitter @umurkontaci? I might be able to fix it.
Nice concept, I want something like that... but it says "shipping Feb 2016"... lot of things can happen during these 9 months.
very cool idea! I wonder how the "theft" situation will play out...
"if not for those extra tax shelter floors, he would not have built them at all"

1. You do not know that.

2. Boo hoo. He wouldn't have built the building, but someone else would have.
Someone please explain: Who are the victims in this supposed "crime?"

It would be a huge understatement to claim that the US has a strange obsession with so called prescription narcotics. Sending doctors and patients alike to jail for supposed overuse or over-subscription.

Look, yes, there is a public interest case where someone is known to be selling or allowing others to be selling such medications onto the black market. But in many of these case (most?) that isn't really the case, or at least they have no evidence of that.

So, again, what exactly is it they're trying to accomplish? Why is the victim? Why do they care?

On a related note, I have a family member (in the US) who works in a clinic, the sole purpose of this clinic is to get people with chronic or in some cases even terminal conditions off of narcotic painkillers. These people provably are in pain, but the system in the US is such that they'll kick people off of painkillers who actually need them simply because of some kind of "narcotic painkillers are bad" circular logic which nobody can explain to me.

I'd really like someone to explain to me why the prescription of painkillers isn't a matter best left to patients and doctors in most cases where there is no suggestion of resale or other corruption. It just boggles my mind that the police are getting into people's personal treatment plans and calling their painkillers illegal.
Here's another attack scenario to think about.

Consider the original protocol: server sends a t-bit nonce N, client signs it.

Suppose that Eve can passively observe Alice's authentications to Bob's server, but she can't actively MitM the connection. Her best generic attack is a birthday attack:

1. Eve observes 2^b authentications and remembers each (N, S(N)) pair.

2. Eve attempts to authenticate as Alice. If Bob sends an N she has seen before, she's in. If he sends a fresh N, she aborts and tries again.

Eve will succeed in step 2 after roughly 2^(t-b) attempts.

Now consider the amended protocol. In each authentication, Eve observes two signatures: S(R) and S(R^N). Each is a signature over what is essentially a random t-bit number. This allows Eve to improve her attack:

1. Eve observes 2^b authentications. She stores two (X, S(X)) pairs per authentication: one for X = R and one for X = R^N. The size of the set is 2^(b+1).

2. Eve attempts to authenticate as Alice. Bob sends N. For each X in her set of observations, Eve calculates X' = X^N. If X' is also in the set, Eve wins. If not, she aborts and tries again.

Notice that Eve is now colliding N with the set of (X, X') pairs. Since this set grows with the square of Alice's authentication attempts, Eve will succeed after roughly 2^(t-2(b+1)) attempts.

This attack is plausible for sufficiently small t (say, 64) and sufficiently large b (say, 16-20). While b will be very small in web login scenarios, large b may be plausible in automated authentication scenarios.

This can obviously be defeated by choosing a sufficiently large t.

EDIT: (I'm not 100% certain about all the math. Corrections are welcome.)
This is very evident in the styles people do interviews. For example, Bill O'Reilly is loud, calls names etc when his guests disagree with him - to the point that some of his conversations end up being loud shouting matches and the only thing left to do (as a viewer) is to turn it off. Jon Stewart on the other hand - he disagrees with his guests in a kind, calm and funny manner - it is interesting to watch him and his guests go back and forth on ideas. I'm guessing that attitude probably spills into other areas of their lives too

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHPD6AJ5Fg&t=2m (Bill ends up calling his guest a fascist)
This is an interesting theory and given what we know how how hollywood works in the backroom, plausible, but there are no facts to support it.

Eich was not "thrown out of mozilla". The board knew about his donation and appointed him anyways - the pressure for him to resign came from the community and Mozilla employees.

Hollywood is great at fomenting outrage, but not that much and not in that way :)
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I see a blank page for a second than I get redirected to the actual page. Could you also hit me on twitter @umurkontaci to help me diagnose?
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