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Any form of moderation will be abused by people.

There's a fair number of people online who hate me and repeatedly report things that I do. I uploaded a youtube video showing a XSS vulnerability that I found, reported, and had been fixed. Someone reported it and it got deleted, I got a red mark on my account and it put my account in "bad standing". I appealed it and it got put back up and the stuff reversed.

On a different site I got a 2 week ban for posting a link to a completely harmless and completely rule-abiding youtube video. I appealed it twice and it wasn't lifted. On that same site I had my account deleted for posting a rickroll video. That time they listened to the appeal and reinstated my account.

My reddit account was shadowbanned. I appealed it and it got reinstated.

My point is that moderation is always somewhat subjective and usually done by low paid workers going through high volumes of disgusting stuff, so there will always be mistakes. And there are people who get mad and basically treat that report button as a dislike button. I even went to a talk by a facebook employee on the spam team, and he said there are some countries they essentially completely ignore reports from because reporting innocent stuff is so wide spread there.
reddit is starting to do the same thing. Twitter already does it. Even HN mods "scrub" stories off the home page all the time, usually for very good reasons, but also often for reasons many HN'ers would disagree with. You can see hidden (demoted) posts on http://hnrankings.info/

Private companies have every legal right to do this but it's not ultimately the way the world should be. People themselves should be the ones curating what they see, not faceless administrators secretly making judgment calls using unwritten policies. It creates a situation in which you can't be sure what you're not seeing, which is far worse than sometimes seeing things you don't like.
Doing Early Modern Drugs (2011)
WRITE(1) is pretty much ubiquitous. Even Mac OS X has it. Very old school.
that's kind of funny: fastmail's good web interface and caldav support is the reason i stopped using thunderbird.
What does "accurate" mean in this context? If there's a standard meaning of it, I'd be glad to judge it by that.

But the metric the author offered, as their defining results, was some cute things with Putin and Obama.

So yeah, if the results are accurate relative to some standard metric, I wasn't disputing that. I was questioning the reliability of the results the author presented, about cute Obama/Putin connections.
The free range certification doesn't mean much. But I the difference between a corn diet and the natural meat diet of chickens causes a flavor difference in my opinion.
This is additional information that what I suspected was happening, is, which is that the combination of some hard "cores" + FPGA fabric is becoming useful. The original Xilinx run at this used Power PC cores but the current stuff (Zync) using ARM cores has had much better traction.

Looking at the TI site they want $328 each[1] in singles, not a great price point but not horrible given their performance but I don't think it crosses into the 'revolutionary' category.

That said, one of these and a couple of those 4 GSPS 12-bit ADC's and you'd have a pretty sweet front end for an oscilloscope. My new 200Mhz scope only has 2.5GSPS front ends on it and it cost $6K.

[1] This compares to $60 for singles of the Zync chip.
> laziness

Or more likely time constraints.
That page claims it's about 40% faster than A*. Multiply through the ratios and you'll have your answer. (1000x faster is a lot more than .4x faster, so I guess it compares quite favorably.)
I've always wondered why people building vim support for Coq did not name it Coq-au-vim...
It's like asking for a theory of which programming language is better.

There's nothing wrong with just ignoring programming-language theory and just deciding on one, seat of the pants style. But this is because programming as it exists now is a static "art form" with only marginal progress expected.

However, assuming deep learning currently works unexplainably well and one aims to scientifically explain that good working, one would want an explanation which guides one's approach to extending the process.

I've done a bit of applied math, where knowing which kind of function to pull out of one's toolbox for which situation was the really-smart-people's purview, a fairly well guarded folk-knowledge, actually. I'm used to the "little bit of this, little bit of that" kind of explanation for which functions to use when and why. If one weighs them long enough, I assume one can intuitively figure out what to do.

But if we're aiming to advance fundamentally beyond the state-of-the-art, we would aim to quantify these advantages and disadvantages, to automate one more layer. So here we really should know and have a "real" theory here.
I did the bottle exercise. Very interesting.

I see the term I was looking for was LSM (language style matching). That should help me do more research.

Thanks for the link.
I don't know if duck boats are "bad" as they are simply objects. However, there are many more people using automobiles in our society, and the utility of automobiles is much higher than duck boats (at least how we choose to employ them currently).

Also duck boats can be bad and so can car accidents. This is a non-sequitor.
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I use the knuckle of my little finger: http://quadruple-a.com/keys/ctrl.jpg

I've been using emacs for 9 years like that without a problem. I didn't realise you were supposed to swap your Caps Lock and Ctrl keys, so I never did. (And now I know you're supposed to, I just ignore it the advice. I don't think it's especially good advice, though, as always, if it works for you, feel free to heed it.)
Seconded. Although it's true this was likely the fault of the woman (she apparently walked in to traffic against a light in a high-traffic neighborhood while staring at her phone) it took about 5 minutes for news of it to get around Philly. I learned about it before the scene had even been cleared.
California has the same law. This is a great way to get tools into the hands of police to help them enforce the law and educate drivers.
No, no reddit isn't. And I'd love proof of Twitter silently deleting users' tweets.

> Even HN mods "scrub" stories off the home page all the time, usually for very good reasons, but also often for reasons many HN'ers would disagree with.

This part, is extremely true though.
There's a reason gog.com is making money. Going DRM-free doesn't harm your business, it just respects the users.

If people like a game, they will pay for it as long as you don't have some kind of annoying obstacle preventing them from doing so.

edit: DRM isn't even really a good counter to piracy for the most part. It will be cracked sooner or later (sometimes before the game is even officially released) and the people who wish to pirate it will do so.
I'm not proposing abolishing the courts, so presumably the highly hypothetical scheme you've just described world be litigated in court.

Your second argument, based on logistics, is much stronger and bears consideration.
Yeah, though it sucks to be them, anyone with half a brain would have seen this drought coming a mile away and done something to mitigate its effects.

Didn't see it coming? Though shit. This is the new reality. Deal with it.
You can also create a screen session. The other user logs into your ssh server and uses screen -x to attach to your terminal.
I actually wanted to state the same thing the GP did - the date selector is terribad. It was much better before "The Flattening" in iOS 7. IMHO.

I find sometimes I have difficulty understanding where the bounds of the control actually are. That's not good design, and it seems far from obvious.
Same in California: I only see Florida orange juice in the supermarket.
Actually I'd far prefer to use a Makefile.
I[0] don't[1]? [2]

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[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/bla...

[1] http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2015/05/27/blacks-leas...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/nyregion/15subprime.html?e...

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/01/minorities-more-lik...

[4] http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/02/09/Study-shows-its-mo...

[5] http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/well-off-b... dayton specific
You think that's bad? Try posting anything critical of what someone else says on HackerNews. Frankly, having discussions about censorship on this platform - including this very comment - is to be willfully blind to the kind of censorship that's going on here and that we're ignoring.
Also, if you have a terminal multiplexer like tmux, you can have a very small horizontal split at the bottom to execute the `talk` command and use `less +F talkfile` in the top split to view the chat log with the ability to scroll back and search. You could also use tmux's built-in scrolling and just use `tail -f talkfile` but that would only show you the content which was tailed after you executed that command.
Apple has been a driving force for better UI in a number of areas, but some of their choices are baffling. Even in this page, the "Contrast" section uses a large black header, but a small grey font on a white background for the content. Who chose Shift-Command-] for switching tabs in Safari? Why include the power switch in the keyboard, which makes it challenging to clean? Could their glossy displays be any more reflective?
An IRC server for this? Thermonuclear flyswatter.
Can confirm. Doritos are amazing.
Nope. Like I said. You can only get there by ignoring lending standards.

EDIT: Did you even read the links you posted, or did you just do a quick Google search and copy links without reading?
Agree. I would rather try my luck tapping a too-small calendar date as pictured on the right. I'll often get it right the first time, but even accounting for the extra time of an error and a retry (2 extra taps) it will still be faster and less frustrating than setting 4 separate scroll wheels.
Its a serious problem even in academia. I have had to email authors of papers or go begging on reddit.com/r/scholar more than once, even when I had very expensive university subscriptions available to me.
Site seems to be down?

Is there a mirror for the ebook download?
I didn't know about Android Studio, I'll give it a try.

I actually like IDEs quite a lot, what I don't like are IDEs like netbeans, eclipse, visual studio or xcode.

I loved codewarrior absolutely to death, I was heavily into thinkc, the first development tool I ever bought with my own money was lightspeedc which fit on a floppy.
Are you conflating downvotes and censorship?
With ytalk you could escape to the shell and the other participants could see what you were doing. It was fantastic for showing classmates code I was working on.
To me the best solution is to have dedicated lanes for two wheeled vehicles of up to 50cc or equiv on high traffic roads and then lane sharing on less congested and lower volume roads. Lane sharing in high volume roads is asking for accidents to happen, no matter the best intentions of drivers and cyclists alike. on roadways where the speed is over 25mph I think it'd be best to have dedicated lanes, if possible and lane sharing should be an interim solution during the transition (construction).

It would also mean all involved be subject to all road rules, like speed, distance, red lights and stop signs
Do you mean that negative comments tend to receive downvotes, or are deleted by HN admins?
If the police are measuring with ultrasonic rangefinders, then cars need them too. How are human drivers supposed to judge that distance?

The article makes the analogy of trying to enforce speed limits without a radar detector. Fine, but cars have speedometers that give the driver the same information. We don't demand drivers just get a feel for how fast they are going.
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HN holds itself out to be much closer to a curated service than Twitter, FB, or Reddit. There's no such thing as "off topic" on those services (although within a subreddit there certainly is).
I think Kongregate's perspective on F2P is a lot more nuanced than your usual F2P mills (Zynga, et al) on the subject, and I say this as someone who could hardly be described as a fan of F2P.

It's worth nothing that Anthony Pecorella, the speaker in the first linked video, also moonlights for an indie game company (Level Up Labs) that's been quite successful while tacking completely opposite to F2P. So in my experience he has a strong appreciation for both sides of the business. And Emily Greer is a super knowledgeable badass that one ignores at their peril -- a lot of her talks have really challenged some of my assumptions about the F2P business models.

Source/Full Disclosure: I know this stuff because I'm Anthony's co-founder at LUL.
Modern multitools like this one are more than 20 years old, so I don't see how there could be active multitool patents this would invalidate. Unless they did something especially clever in their design that would be specially patented?
I thought it was certain there will be less right of center people in the us, as the older white conservative/republican generation dies off, and is replaced by more people of color and/or somewhat less conservative kids.

To me the open question is will this lead to a more liberal or Canadian like politics, or could the shrinking conservative base blow us up into multiple countries? US northeast and west coast joins canada? Rest, becomes jesus land?
Discussing censorship on HackerNews does not make sense
HackerNews is not the right place to have conversations about censorship, such as this one, presently the top post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716783.

Free speech is not allowed here - it is strictly censored and the moderators follow a policy that is their own preference. This place is about as far away from allowing free speech as you can get. It is, quite frankly, closer to the curated North Korea than to the wild west that is the USA. And that's a fact.

The links are good though, we can all agree on that.

Also: It is sensical to discuss censorship here, as long as we are discussing the way this place is censored.
I am surprised nobody mentioned this yet.

filter(None, [0 1, 2, 3, False, None, 5, 6, 7])

Here None is the same as bool()
For some reason, most of these slides say, "¡Vaya! Hubo un problema para cargar la página." Is there a better URL, maybe with the PDF itself? (https://doc-04-4c-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/h... doesn't look like it's going to work reliably for other people.)
On Instagram, the choice to share to facebook shows up before you actually upload the image. But the image still is saved to your phone's gallery.

So he could have thought he finished everything and in fact not have done anything.

Though rereading it, it did show up on Twitter...
To be slightly more explicit for people who aren't used to using it this way, one person could run "netcat -l 12345" and the other could run "netcat localhost 12345". (Your netcat might also be installed as nc.)
Well, I was thinking about it as a particularly good example of how common it is for exciting "new" solutions to general problems of multithreading turn out to be cases of a classic algorithm that has been well-studied.
There is an interesting line in one of those presentations: (paraphrase) "There is a hyper-competitive market for player attention, which has caused the price of a game to fall all the way to zero, but after they're in your [end]game you are a monopolistic provider of the game content, so you can charge any profit-maximizing price."

This is a slightly more nuanced take than mine, which is that F2P games are what gamers have been voting for for years with their wallets, by stealing everything that wasn't nailed down and most of the stuff that was.
From a cursory look at the picture, this might have got caught by some crazy "no free advertisement" bot, since a phone number is clearly legible. That probably wasn't the intention, but it is easy to see how a DNN would classify this as a commercial advertising picture without additional context.
Python 101: str() is dangerous for unicode objects without a specified encoding. Please don't call str() unless you know exactly what encoding you are dealing with.

Try it:

$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 python -c "print str(u'é')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)
I've just gotten into the PDX Renters Unite! Facebook group. Rental prices in Portland are skyrocketing largely due to venture-backed companies hiring from out of state.

The solutions are largely straightforward, for example "inclusionary zoning" would require that new housing developments include a certain proportion of affordable housing. But inclusionary zoning is forbidden by Oregon State Law.

In what way does that law serves the needs of the people? Well that was not considered by the legislators, no the developers lobbied them, no doubt set them up with hookers and blow so as to maximize shareholder value while throwing lots of young people out on the street.
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Good writeup: http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/the-amazing-incredibly-affordab...
In fact, in year 2015 Emacs and Vim have the best real time, intelligent analysis out there for those that know how to use them and are trained on them.

I develop Cursive, an IDE based on IntelliJ for Clojure code. Its completion and navigation are categorically better than Emacs's, even for a language that supposedly has one of the best levels of support under Emacs.

To say that Emacs is automatically better than everything else is pure Stockholm syndrome.
DRM is largely about protecting the new-release window where a supermajority of AAA game/video sales happen. It doesn't have to be effective for all time -- if it delays the first crack until release plus two weeks then it's still worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in marginal sales.
I once read that the GFW permits google from time to time so as to fool those who search with google into thinking that it is a technical fault on google's part, rather than censorship.
IFTTT auto copied it to Twitter, so it must have existed at some point.
My understanding is that Paul Graham personally censored this website for multiple hours per day for years, and that now there is someone else, or a small team of others, doing it.
> I want the best qualified people to treat me and my loved ones

Blacks and latinos want the same. The problem is that the best qualified people is not an absolute term. It changes with the situation and often means 'people like me'.

A thousand years ago a raped or abused woman had to be examinated by a male doctor; currently most female victims of domestic violence will feel much more comfortable talking and being examinated by a female physician if available.

Children are typically very stressed in hospitals. A black boy with a broken arm tend do trust easier a black young physician and is less traumatic for him. The old white male doctor could not be the right people for this particular job. In fact could be seem as unpolite or creepy by people with a different culture.

This is a solid reason for having different people in your team that can navigate by the pitfalls of the different cultures without being unintentionally rude. This makes the life in the hospital much easier for all.
Not necessarily ignoring; if censorship means that only certain types of voices will be heard, sometimes that's all people want to hear.

My view is that there should always be places that are censorship-free, and after that it's okay that other places might be censored. Most participating on HN tend to know that engaging in certain ways (eg. excessive swearing, aggressiveness, etc.) will lead to being censored. As long as there remains other places to engage with people without rules, I'm also grateful for venues that are heavily moderated.
I make my living off of mobile freemium games. We don't do anything with replay timers or the like - we advertise, mostly, and have fun in-app purchases.

For a couple years we offered two versions of our apps - paid and free, free being ad supported. In a bid to simplify things and encourage more conversions, we switched to in-app purchase to get rid of ads. (Also, app stores had been optimized to push down app results for non-free games - plenty of reading out there about the causes and effects.)

To date, just under 5% of our revenue is paid. Despite playing for years, many people don't believe our games are worth $1.99. If you believe the race to the bottom will reverse itself, I'm here to tell you it won't. It's guided by the walled gardens and they like it this way.

We have had millions of downloads and on our most popular game, have abnormally long retention. Even some of our most die-hard players will not spend $1.99.

Maybe - MAYBE console gaming will one day return from F2P, but I doubt it. At least not in the near future - the industry is still moving towards it.

But in mobile gaming, success is a volume play. And the volumes won't part with $.99 in the traditional way. If they did, F2P wouldn't be a thing. And maybe gamers will pay for games, but the masses? Not so much.
I'd prefer the first explanation as well, not least because "optimize your business model for the people who are willing to pay you, not the people who aren't."
Interesting, this seems to be a SIMD-optimized implementation of delta compression (or very similar, anyway). That's a clever idea.

edit: Apparently this isn't actually a SIMD implementation, so it's basically just a variant of delta compression with no particular advantage (or disadvantage).
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Ask HN: What technologies to use for new startup ideas?
I have many good and bad startup ideas. I took a web dev bootcamp but am a much better product manager (The Lean Startup blew my mind). I want to use oDesk to get some prototypes up. I want to think of each startup idea pretty meta, merely each as experiments to better learn the product market fit process of tech startups. Obviously I believe my best ideas are ahead of me, through hard pivots or otherwise. (Yet I also believe the technologies used for both each startup now and a future iteration of fresh ideas need to be the same as much as possible.) Lastly, I am aware marketing is a big factor to measure these experiments that I am leaving out of this right now.

My concern is over best technologies to use. Is it obviously just node + react? Other thoughts are meteor + maybe react.

Here are the factors I believe matter:
-freelance dev knowledge of tools
-future tech debt
-resources (libraries and documentation, and stack overflow questions)
-quickness in hacking out new features

Thanks
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We do ask people to guess whether or not they are committing DWI/DUI though, which is a huge problem in my opinion. Cockeyed.com sums it up better than I can:

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/breathalyzer/breathalyser01....

> Monitoring blood alcohol levels is difficult. Holding people accountable for crossing the .08 limit is like holding them accountable for trespassing once they walk past a particular longitude. The line is invisible. It is possible to determine your longitude, but it is awfully tricky if you don't own a sextant or GPS unit.

> Imagine if cars did not have speedometers, but speeding laws were still enforced with $2,000 police radar guns. It would be really difficult to tell how fast you were going, particularly (as is the case with blood alcohol levels), you had never experienced having your speed tested, nor had any real experience with what a particular speed (for example 55 mph) feels like.
User A logs into user B's machine. User A or B types

screen -S chat

The other user types

screen -xr chat
These are great slides. Author knows their stuff.
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