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Except it relies on a false fact, that this has anything to do with the legal concept of "consumer confusion". It's not just an opinion, it's actively promoting falsehoods.
"The jump up in tech between playing a normal video game and playing with Kinect was X. The jump between a regular game and playing a room scale VR experience is X times 100. It’s like saying, 'I have an IMAX theater in my house.' It’s so much better that we can get away with a cumbersome setup."

You can't see how that quote implies it's up to IMAX standards? Why even use the IMAX name if not to invoke the idea that it's up to their standards?
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"By the author of this piece" is implied.
No, not really. It's putting the mentally ill and irrational ones in a cage that's a fucking disgrace.

The bankers know what they do.
75,000 words later, I see it's about the Paleo diet? A summary at top would have been great.
Did you really not see the part of the article at the very beginning addressing this?
Free speech also refers to a closely-held cultural value in the US, that is to say the respect for private citizens to hold and espouse beliefs which others find distasteful or offensive.

Saying "free speech only refers to the government censoring you" (at least in the context of America) is like saying that American society and culture consist _solely_ of the official bureaucratic proceedings of its constituent governmental bodies. In other words, its intellectually dishonest.
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Hehe. I swear I had plans for Mad Max on IMAX this weekend way before hearing about this story. Good publicity? So, I will resist buying the super-sized popcorn as my attempt to protest.

I still love IMAX.
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Better than 90+-someodd% of the population.

I found purple hardest. I eventually failed on a purple.

Reminds me of http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge. I believe I scored 97-percentile on that (a 3).
That's fine, but then I don't understand what the problem is with having that IE8 fix which you didn't make until sometime later being a separate commit.
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Totally. There's much more to the world than the US. Use your differences to your advantage -- you can be more localized.

For example, I'm working in a little niche with some US competitors. But my partners have found that being "Made in Canada" is actually helping us sell to our local Canadian small businesses. Additionally, we're going to do a French Canadian version of our app and market in Quebec -- our US competitors haven't touched multiple language support. These small differentiators will help make us a successful business; not a Google or an Apple, but, a source of revenue that we built by ourselves out of nothing.

Competition is a sign that you're on the same track others have identified as being viable. It's much better to have competition than to be all alone.
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I don't like you labeling those people "slimy runoff of Reddit's worst element". I think this kind of labeling is commonly used these days (and especially on Reddit) to shut down unpopular ideas.
There were 150k subsribers to fph and probably several times more readers. It was one of the most active subreddits at the time of the ban. How is it "slimy runoff of Reddit's worst element"? Maybe you know, there were many reasonable, frustrated with PC culture in there who just wanted to vent sometimes.
Then how about using a double key (i,j) where j is the global chain number?
I assume you are talking about this, which mentions a 6 year limit:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/286

But that only limits the time period for which damages may be claimed - it does not forfeit the ability to claim damages altogether, which is what may happen with trademarks; that's a pretty significant difference.

Ok, that is an interesting aspect of US patent law I wasn't familiar with. But this doesn't look like a universal property of patents, more likely it's specific to the US?
I'll bet a lot of people take these drugs not because they have to but want to. They want to look the part for work, or talk to the hot chick in the bar.
Yes, it is possible. DHH and Jason fried, creators of basecamp, are nice guys. Is that "significant"? I don't know.

What you need is to deliver. An easy way is to treat them poorly, and it works to some degree. The hard way is to treat them with respect and support, but that takes more work; although offers better results.
Believe me MIT is well aware of their poor startup record. I donate enough that people from the development office visit me in person, and they have been worrying for decades that MIT grads go on to work for other people.

When I was a student (80s) MIT was still basically anti-entrepreneurial (this despite Draper, EG&G, etc..even Symbolics and LMI) and instead focused around government R&D and policy. There is so much hysteresis in the system that this culture is very hard to change.

A lot of the things you mention (startup competition) are surface phenomena. Stanford is far and away more deeply entrepreneurial (they were already a bit this way back in the early 80s -- think the Sun/Cisco era).

As for Harvard, well, the reasons I chose not to go there still appear to apply.
This article is a fucking damage to science.
No. I'm getting pretty tired of the notion that the only valuable discourse is pleasant, up-beat, and optimistic. This notion attempts to stifle entire swaths of the emotional spectrum and has at it's heart censorship based on a mainstream aversion to anything that smacks of confrontation or conflict. Up with opinionated, confrontational speech.
>, but if you're fearful of breaking builds, then once you did make such a mistake, the ability to go back and rewrite it would surely look pretty good.

But I was trying to emphasize that Git's "mental model" eases the burden breaking the build. If everyone buys into the concept that "git commits" are just another lightweight form of "Ctrl+S", we would expect for programmers' private branches to sometimes have broken builds. That's the nature of real-world work such as refactoring or experimental changes. There's no social penalty or stigma for broken builds in private repos. Therefore, if a programmer rewrites history to hide broken builds, it's not because of ego or image-consciousness but because of consideration for others to read a comprehensible story of the changes.

You made a commit that broke the build? Well, try not to do that, but as long as you don't push it, it's not a big deal. Fix it (in a new commit!) and you'll push both of them together. History is preserved, nobody's build actually broke, everybody's happy.

Not everybody's happy. If we conceptually treat git commits as a 2nd form of "ctrl+s", we don't want to see both commits. Instead, clean up your private history, then craft/squash/edit your commits into a logical story, then make sure your public history has a clean build, and then apply those commits to the public branch. That's the way Linus Torvalds likes it for Linux patches and many agree with him. We do want some history to be preserved but not all of it.
None of HTML's new form attributes replace server side validation (which is annoying since you end up repeating code and having slight differences), however it's a good start.

With CORS and CSRF tokens, it would cut down on accidental issues – which for most sites is a bigger deal than malicious activity.
> How far the movie screen appears in the VR headset has no impact whatsoever on pixelization and is purely a stereoscopic effect

We're talking about rendering pre-existing video at those distances, so it absolutely DOES cause pixelation as fewer pixels are used to render the video content than its native resolution.

A lot of people calling me wrong seem to be under the odd mistaken impression that we're rendering some generic object far away, but the discussion is about display pre-existing video footage at a distance.

If the VR headset is 1080p and the video footage is 1080p, if you put it far away (i.e. it only takes up 50% or 25% of the VR headset's screen real-estate) then it obviously cannot be rendered using all 1080p of the video's original pixels (since many are in use on the VR headset's display for non-video footage) and therefore a loss of detail is unavoidable.

The only solution to this is having a higher PPI than the source video. And as you move the video footage further and further away, the PPI needs to increase to keep the video footage rendered at its native resolution.
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Difference in that the:
Swift lives and develops.
Dart is trying to survive.

All that developers rejected not so long ago (as inadmissible), now they are trying to use for survival (calling them as a new and fresh ideas).

Survival is when the developers throw overboard everything unnecessary (Chrome Dart VM, Dart Editor, Web Platform) and grasping at all that falls under the arm (old new ideas).
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Even though I could frequently commit on feature branches, I usually don't. Hence, when I merge feature branches I don't have crazy messy histories that I feel it necessary to rewrite.... Works for me.
This is simply not how federal sentencing works. You don't add up all the sentences from all the charges and then serve them back to back.
Missed opportunity at the Wayhack Machine, but interesting still.

What would be very interesting would be to take snapshots by time so you can see the flow of a story throughout the day.
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Wikipedia's article on Dijkstra says:

"He was the first to make the claim that programming is so inherently complex that (...)"

Meanwhile Alan Kay had 12 year old kids making computer games (videos on Web Archive).

Dijkstra contributed algorithms. In that sense he contributed as a mathematician. That doesn't diminish what he did. But it does not compare with what Alan Kay did for the sum of these two parts: computers, and people.
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I think your underestimating how often banks fail.

"The Panic of 1819. The Panic of 1837. The Panic of 1873. The Panic of 1907. The Great Depression. The savings and loan crisis of the '80s and '90s. The financial crisis of 2007-2009. The list goes on and on." http://www.davemanuel.com/history-of-bank-failures-in-the-un...

PS: The average is more than 6 banks per month over the last 50 years in the US. With only 2 years from 1934 to now having zero bank failures in the US.
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Fine, my suggestion to solve this problem democratically was an applause light. It was an unfinished thought and a call for action. I agree that this didn't convey any new information, I just wanted to express my distrust towards these kinds of appeasement statements from people who are working on these technologies. Being able to peak at different layers of a CNN doesn't recover NNs from the fact that they are in many regards opaque to us (and will possibly always be due to their complexity). Statements of the sort "I have never understood those charges" makes it sound like they are pretty much ignorant of the potential risks associated with not knowing exactly what your program does (they can perhaps be with regards to current technology, but I could imagine that more advanced systems can potentially arrive sooner than overall anticipated).
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Because that would not be portable.
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Nobody cares about calling dibs. People will move to the product that provides the best value; a subjective assessment that is constantly being re-evaluated as conditions are ever-changing. Also, execution never looks the same even if the ideas are identical.

If you think you can build something of value for people and you care about the problem then do it or join others already doing it. If a competitor makes a mistake, learn, and if they succeed, adapt. Everything else is a distraction from solving actual problems.
Right, when you need to maintain (and patch) old versions of a piece of software, having eternal release branches is necessary. The fixes on those old versions often don't ever want to be merged back to master because the code is very different in more recent versions.
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I think you mean to use the word anthropogenic, not anthropomorphic.
It's funny that I was thinking today about writing an article with this exact same title. "Considered harmful" articles are just one person's opinion, most of the time.
Well, that is how the upper bound of federal sentencing works.

It is just extremely unusual for the imposed sentence to be at the upper bound, due to a number of factors, particularly the federal sentencing guidelines (though upward departures from the guidelines are possible, and may reach anything up to the upper bound -- that's why it is an upper bound.)
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Thanks! I guess there were 11 lands back then, and there are 22 now. And the new ones show many new things in the hyperbolic plane, like wars between huge armies (the Hive), large circles (Camelot, where you have to find the center of a circle of radius 28, and this is challenging), and horocycles (infinite circles -- the Temple of Cthulhu and the Caribbean).
In that sense, it'd be a perfect analogue to the "maxlength" attribute on text inputs. (In fact, I wonder if it'd be sufficient to just make that attribute apply to file inputs as well...)
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My rap-speak may be off but I believe this refers to the Recording Industry and thus a reference to Atlantic Records and not drugs as other commenters suggested.
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One interesting question the author obliquely brings up is this: Should all the financial regulation exist? My general sense is ... "not for things more complicated than savings accounts, checking accounts, and basic mortgages".

I really don't see the harm in prediction markets, even if they are putting together strange derivatives.
As neat as this idea is, the Nations have a monopoly on violent force and its essentially meaningless unless the honor it :P
I'm sure there's another site that does this that was a show HN last year. It allowed hourly selection too...

Edit: found it, http://hnhistory.net
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I don't think there are a lot of ideas that are so original that no one else came up with them. Chances are someone is already working on your idea regardless of what your idea is. You have the benefit of knowing who that competitor is. Shouldn't stop you, but encourage you.
Check this 'It can turn out ok' comment[0] from this post[1]:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663904
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663203
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Very cool. Wish there were some form of message persistence. Otherwise the speed at which I type is limited to how quickly others acknowledge what I say, and that slows the entire conversation down.

Adding more traditional scrolling chat bubbles (see Ultima Online) would help that I think.
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There are no public spaces on the internet. This isn't a nitpick - it gets to the core of the censorship issue.

If Twitter and Facebook want to ban something, they already can. And do.

As for your statement idea - I personally don't feel that useless gestures like trying to stop the tide are very comforting.
I think it's more frustration with Reddit and looking for a place with less group-think and censorship than confidence in Voat. There aren't many alternatives to Reddit so people are trying w/e look like it could become one.
They must be worried.
Typically the implementation of Web Assembly will reside in the JS engine. There is no good reason not to continue to do in perpetuity, as far as I'm concerned. So, even in the future in which Web Assembly grows extra functionality, this is only a "break" from JS in the sense that x86-64 was a "break" from x86.
Build it anyway, gain experience.

You know how there's only one personal computer platform because the other guys all gave up? Oh right, there's a bunch! Because different things can fill different niches, your take on the problem might fill some slightly different, but large demographic.
I don't think restrictions on mailing batteries is that strange. Lithium-ion batteries can fail pretty spectacularly when damaged [0].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUFxlf4fXjo
I didn't notice the glossary and I am actually glad I didn't. By the end of Anathem all of the strange names for things become second nature and you understand from the context what their meaning is. It is almost like what happens when you learn a new language and are able to think in that language.
Hair is a fairly dangerous product; Lice, fleas, ticks, and other nasties that can spread disease like to nest in it. It's technically a body part, and I only say technically for the sake of argument; It is a body part. Most people are grossed out by fingernail clippings, which are pretty much the same thing (Primarily keratin).

Hair (and probably fingernails, were there a market for them) is relatively easy to clean compared to other body parts, but it is still a potential biohazard. Having regulations and restrictions around it makes sense - And I'm a die-hard libertarian saying this.
> Why would Uber want to incentivize drivers during high demand periods, versus just taking that additional money themselves?

Consumers would revolt, because they hate surge pricing. It is only acceptable because Uber argued that it was necessary to get drivers on the streets. If Uber starts setting shifts, then it looks to the consumer like pure greed. A probable outcome is regulation to cap fares. The main reason to set shifts is to maximize asset utilization, but Uber doesn't own the assets (vehicles), so this isn't an issue.
Amazing! It was cool to see the day my company was acquired:
http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-4-25

Just pinged Dan and Scott to find out the day HN started. I believe it would have been called Startup News then.
Yeah, obviously we do that (well maybe not so obvious to some, but I never push unless the tests pass). We sometimes perform lots of other things like static analysis that get in the way of a rapid feedback loop. We also run mutation testing, which can sometimes take several hours for the whole codebase -- although we don't have this run on every commit, just ones that we merge into a specific branch.

The problem I have with non-linear commit history is that I find it impossible to keep all the paths straight in my head when I am trying to understand a series of changes. Maybe you can do that, and I think that's awesome, but I like to see a master branch and then smaller feature branches that break off and then combine back with master.
I don't know what jargons you use, but scientific jargon, IT jargon and law
jargon are some of those I hear more or less regularly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon

About terms from IT jargon mentioned in the article, you got monkey patching
wrong. It's not about temporary fixing something.
Let us suppose that it is possible to "petition the Lord with prayer", to quote Morrison. For example, do prayers from strangers help someone recover from an illness?

We can test two populations, ones who receive stranger prayer, and ones who do not, and see if one population gets better treatment. We can look at the epidemiology to see if people from one religion, who practice healing prayer, have different health outcomes than those who do not. (This is tricky but not intractable because there is more than one factor at play.)

Thus we have the ability to detect if there is something outside of the current model. Detecting failures of the current model is part of science, even when it it cannot produce a better model other than "here there be dragons." What's at issue is that so far those gaps seem to get smaller and smaller the more we look into them. Hence the phrase "God of the gaps."

We of course have many examples of thing which were outside of the then-current understanding of science. The "ultraviolet catastrophe" is a classic example. The irreconcilability of general relativity and quantum mechanics is another.

But we did not call that "supernatural", even though when we knew there was a gap in our understanding.

At this point, global flooding of the sort discussed would have to be a supernatural event. There is no place for the water to come from or go to. There is no physical trace of such an event. Therefore, it would either require planetary engineering of the sort more appropriate for science fiction, or some sort of magical or divine intervention.
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Snow Crash is a much better book if you skim all the stuff about the ancient Mesopotamians. He gets a little off into the weeds with that stuff, and apparently the editor failed to cut things back properly.
No worries there, I live in Canada. None of the good shit will ship here.
Just told me the first item submitted was Mon Oct 09 2006.
http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09
Ok, that makes sense... but then why bother pushing the branch in the first place?
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In the history of computer crime, has a judge ever departed from the grouping guidelines of the CFAA and wire fraud laws?

Also: do you agree with the commenter upthread who is loudly asserting that Swartz faced 30-50 years for scraping JSTOR?
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This might be the flip side of a certain project presentation style.

How often do you see:

"If you have use case X, SoftGood will help you solve problem Y without triggering problem Z. If you have use case K, SoftGood may not be the best fit for you."

vs

"You should use SoftPanacea -- it's design-driven, big-scale, cloud-fronked, makes your life easier, and is awesome!"
EU doesn't do punitice damages, you might just be entitled to get some or all of your money back.
To quote Alan Cooper, you don't want to be first to market, you want to be best to market. Build something great and let your opponent make the painful first inroads.
It would be really useful if the links were replaced with archive.org links from the same year. A lot of links are now dead.
I genuinely don't understand it when people talk about their experience of a work as if their opinions are somehow objective facts. "It was bad" vs. "I didn't like it", for example. That just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm sorry you didn't like it, but that has no bearing whatsoever on the material, itself, or anyone else's experiences of it.
I was referring the blood glucose, that is what matters. Insulin spikes are short term in regards to their effects on ketosis and can be useful for nutritional transport and promoting anabolism while on a ketogenic diet.
I disagree. If you look at what happens to the brain when it gets angry, nuance is lost in favor of over-simplified black-and-white thinking. I do agree with you that sharing conflicting points of view is good. Too much passion, however, can cloud reason.
I'll go one further:

Build your version, less better, and then just kick their ass in business.

Apple was eaten alive by shitty IBM clones in the PC wars. SGI and Sun were decimated by commodity hardware. Linux destroyed a lot of high-end OSs and platforms.

You don't have to be better to do better.