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Slave labor in Qatar and Dubai is real. Some of the living conditions literally have a sewage trough running right through the run-down and horrible housing complexes. Forced to shit where you eat, have our passport taken away, work unpaid, have no where to turn to for help, and be beaten if you don't meet standards every day.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7985361.stm
There are usually bags under seats.
It is also naive to think yor gun can save you. Do you know where criminals guns? By taking them from people like you
Step 1: Find something, anything that can be construed as a contradiction.

Step 2: Harp on it.

Step 3: Win at the internet.
> I think the idea is that new users will find the question and think that the type of question is still welcome on StackOverflow.

Which brings us back to the original question: why isn't it welcome. Yes, I understand the very real requirement for SO to drift towards a forum, but I think they've drawn the line very far from the optimal place. Furthermore, the insane success of SO has largely killed off specialized forums where that type of very valuable conversation formerly took place. I wish SO would introduce a discussion forum site or "layer" (integrated into SO itself in some way).

Jeff's motivation for SO was something along the lines of making the internet a better place - in my opinion, many of the current mod's actions are contrary to that initiative. SO is still a massive net benefit, but it could be better with a little common sense.

"Update 2: Thanks to the Hacker News community, the post has now been reopened!"

One would hope it would prompt some discussion and soul searching, but I expect not.
In terms of things I want hidden, the first thing that springs to mind is my medical records, which I'd like to keep between me and my doctor(s). My understanding is that, historically, governments and just about everyone have respected that.
I'm familiar with the diagonal argument, but the version I learned in Discrete Math courses defines the reals as little more than a (potentially infinite) series of digits with a decimal point somewhere, which I thought didn't hold up to much scrutiny. But this stuff is way above my mathematics pay grade. :) I stumbled onto the Wikipedia article "Construction of the real numbers" and I have no clue what is going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_real_numbe...
I have the same issue with my Xbox one: If a commercial on TV says :"now available on Xbox one", the Xbox interprets "Xbox one" as "Xbox ON" and turn on by itself.

But here this is a malicious use of the feature. It doesn't even assume there might be other people in the car. I wouldn't be surprised if people start boycotting Toyotas if they get disturbed by this stupid ad.

I noticed on windows 10 you can switch Cortana to "recognize my voice". This would fix the problem for anyone with a voice sufficiently different from the ad
Abandon the Resume
Sounds like I'm in a minority, but as a broad-shouldered guy I would happily make the tradeoff of having someones face in my line of site for an extra four inches of shoulder room.

Half the time I get off a flight, I have a backache from being forced to lean either to the left or the right.

This assumes of course that they would keep other factors like overall leg room about the same.
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Portuguese trains also ride on the left hand side.
> disrupting

the largest barrier to this is user training-- informing and getting people to move over. I originally conceived of this barrier 5 minutes ago when reading about HappyFinder or some other fuzzy finding tool that made it to FP-- why do we have to have a complex name that redefines a word to fit the solution space? The most efficient would be 'AHelmAlternative'. Similarly the competition to 'StackOverflow' would be 'StackOverflowAlternative1'

sounds horrible, but uses encoding to efficiently replace extensive time/marketing to gain mindshare. Oh, Alternative1 didn't work, we don't like it so we're going to start our own, it'll be called Alternative2. 'Hey, we made it, we're going to rename in 6 months. You can start using the new domain name now.'
That statement has 0 persuasive value to the target audience. Of course they see these equivalently. Try feel normal and they don't care about fringe people.
Having relatively wide shoulders, the "fight" for the arm rest was always one of the most annoying aspects of flying. This layout would get rid of all the shoulder and arm bumping, which would be welcome.
Not if the print edition is considered the record. The analogy would be eventual consistency in exchange for higher availability: the tradeoff is the occasional stale read.
NPR's web site handles this for breaking stories by keeping the original article and adding updates to the top of the page, with time stamps as information is added, like this:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/26/417717613/...
Sometimes I drive at speeds other than 60 mph.
> It doesn't support encrypted SMS anymore, but that's not a big deal.

Well, it's kinda a big deal if that was the entire reason one was using it…
>It's not much of a choice when you're psychologically manipulated through marketing to start smoking and then physically dependent and mentally addicted thereafter.

I have no respect for this abdication of personal responsibility.

>This is nonsense. I can't walk into my office without going through a giant cloud of smoke. Smokers are literally smoking right next to the signs that say, "No smoking within 30 feet of door" that are less than a foot from the door.

I likewise have no sympathy. There's a difference between an actual public health concern (my intention using 'nuisance') and the nonexistent right to not be offended. Sharing public space means being inconvenienced sometimes. There's a big difference between working in a smoky bar for 10 hour shifts, and smelling cigarettes for 30 seconds as you walk in a building.
… but that comment is then written as though every form of censorship is obviously immoral and bad which is self-evidently not true using this definition of censorship.

Because according to this definition what an editor at a newspaper engages in is censorship - and no one takes issue with that. It is an self evidently reasonable position to like or even love that kind of censorship – but the comment writes about it as though any endorsement of this kind of censorship were self-evidently evil, something not many people will agree with.

You can use this definition of censorship – but then also know that liking or loving censorship in certain situation is also quite reasonable. I want my censors to be fierce and awesome! I want to, after all, read a newspaper worth reading. And why not also moderate much more heavily at Reddit? Is that somehow evil? I think it would be awesome.
>There's no mob here. If anything, most people seem unfamiliar with this episode.

Top post on multiple reddits, various random threads upvoted to /all, brought up in this thread by multiple people as a reason the CEO was despicable.

>There are two things here. That Reddit maintained the employee for nearly two years, as you say, is clearly laudable, though this decision predated Pao.

While she was CEO he got 4 months of the almost two years of paid time while he was unable to work. Also under he he got an extra year of medical insurance.

>Maybe in the end he would have relapsed again, and maybe his doctor would have determined that he was too sick to perform his duties, and maybe firing him for that actually would have been legal (without knowing his ADA status we can't know), but that's quite a few 'ifs'.

He was supposed to move to the office in 2012. He was never well enough to do so. At the time he was finally let go, he still didn't have a move scheduled. He was still 2 to 3 months away from being able to to start the job. Note his woolly timelines, especially in his followup comments, where 5 months later he was still not ready for full time work.

Changed your mind is not lying, "Sorry, we actually need to someone to start this job immediately, we can't keep waiting."

All this is giving him the most charitable reading of his posts, a post he made at the height of rage at the CEO filled with obvious dog meat like: "Does anyone know of any Reddit alternatives?" "I don't know anything about why Victoria was fired, but he's some speculation as to why she was fired." Etc.

So yeah, I find it despicable that people find this despicable, that comments all across the internet are calling her 'human garbage' and whatnot for treating an employee better than 99% of other companies would have. It's absurd. The story should have been, "Wow, reddit treats employees amazingly!"
NOTE: Techraptor is a site set up by Gamergaters to talk about games and tech news without reprecussions from people who find their views exclusive of progressives, minorities, feminists, and LGBTQ folks. They call this "ethical journalism" because they claim to not receive kickbacks or have special relationships with their journalistic subjects, as they perceive their ideological enemies do.

The quality of journalism is low in my experience, notable moments include the point where writers believed "death of the author"[0] referred to authors dying out as a profession.

[0] A major concept in contemperary literature concerning authorial importance after a work is published, see Rereading Barthes and Nabokov by Zadie Smith for a good intro
Sometimes I've gotten 200 applications for a job posting. Not for a long time, but in 2000-2001, after the Internet crash, it was ugly. You had no choice but to filter a lot. You did your best, knowing that you were missing some good candidates. But any little flag was enough to push you into the "no" or the "maybe" pile.

Even when I've gotten relatively few applicants, it's still time-consuming to bring people in. I wouldn't say that a bunch of short-term jobs would rule out anybody on its own, but I would still like to see something that shows you had an impact during your short time. And like others have said, there's a lot of value in seeing big projects through from start to finish, so there might be positions where I'd be like, sorry, I need to see that you've done that before I hire you for this job.

It's not the years, really, but what you've done in the amount of time you had. Like I said, the ones stated are mostly all good reasons for leaving a job. In an interview I woudld probably find them convincing. I also think it would be great to be able to say, for at least one job, "I stuck this one out and did everything I could, despite the odds stacked against it, because I really wanted to see something through."

To you question specifically, I think having at least one job with a longer tenure would be a big improvement to the first-impression reaction most hiring managers would have to the resume.
In continental Europe people prefer to walk on the right side. Only tourists from Japan insist on the left side.
1. They can't, at least not as plainly as stated here. The wars being fought today are asymmetrical and, in many cases, ideological. You can take out a pocket of resistance here or there, but there are no huge battles like in a war between two nations. Victories are small, cost more, are not decisive, but are guaranteed due to the overwhelming strength of the weapons.

2. More importantly: they don't want to. long drawn out wars are profitable, numbing, and demoralizing. Most people don't care about them anymore. They just happen in the background. No thumbs up, no thumbs down. Go on about your business. That's the best type of reaction a government could ask for when pushing the agenda of lobbyists and the corporations they represent.
Guerilla warfare can change who wins, but it won't stop you from losing. A war has more than two sides.
> continued discussion and up to date answers are almost always expected

That's another frustrating gap in SO: the absolute ignorance of the notion of time and change. Both questions and answers often have a significant timeliness attribute (ex: what are the best online resources for learning <x> as of Jan 2015), and SO has no support for this. To be fair it's a hard problem, but I'm not even aware if it has even been discussed.

I'd like to think that the platform is now mature and tuned enough that they could start to introduce some major new functionality rather than just keeping the lights on.
This issue has been building for a while. See this 2011 article.[1] Shipowners in China were unhappy with Vale, which is an iron ore producer, using their own ships.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-23/china-shun...
> useful

reminds me of accurate wikipedia articles closing or being removed because wikipedia was trying to be an encyclopedia, instead of the first source for information on anything and everything you want to know about
Silicon lattice constant (roughly the distance between atoms) is 0.56nm. The 5nm process will have 10 atom transistors. It's hard to imagine a traditional process smaller than that. That means that the end if Moore's law is near.
I am now coining the nickname 'ModOverflow'. tell your friends!
From a capabilities standpoint, the latest wars have the very sophisticated armies showing an awful lot of self restraint.

Another way of putting it is that the longevity of the insurgents probably says more about the mission that was handed to the military than it does about the ability of the military to deal with the tactics.
I suspect it would need branch based root-ing, sorry, routing, and have to be careful the pruning algorithm on the leaves was not too aggressive. Packet loss due to squirrels also an issue!
Right. So now everyone rests their arms on their neighbor's thighs? Look at that diagram again.

If you think fighting over armrests is bad, this is way, way, way, worse.
Big brother?

Do you have some sort of trust issues? I mean, sometimes I’m willing to trust other people, that’s all. I don’t have to believe that everyone is evil and out to get me. So when I read a newspaper I like I have a general trust that the editors (censors) have done their job … because what else can I do? What else can you do?

I don’t have the time to sit around 24 hours by the newswire … and even then, the people writing that and reporting that … how do I know I can trust those absolutely? I can’t. That’s all.

We humans are forever doomed to not know the truth always all the time. And no one is an island and sometimes you just have to trust other people. And that’s healthy and that’s ok.
This is so wrong. They are acting if processors can only get better by increasing chip speeds. If that were the case todays quad core CPUs with 3GHz should match the performance of a Pentium 4 3GHz * cores, which is definitely not the case.
If Cisco has people onsite helping to install their products and providing support for China's operations, and takes feature suggestions and implements stuff specifically to help China that's more than simply being a technology provider.

Yes Google is intentionally using its technology to serve ads, but it's not intentionally using its technology to give information to the NSA, and is in fact trying to get everything encrypted to specifically stop the NSA.
> By design a user agent is well within its rights to completely ignore any stylesheets attached to a page, and the idea was always that this should be completely OK, partly because you have no idea what the UA's capabilities are, up to and including whether or not it's doing any kind of visual rendering at all.

I think that is just an outdated idea that does not apply to highly interactive, long-lived web applications. The user agent is well within its rights to ignore anything it wants, of course, but the user agent is not owed anything by the server. With CSS, or JavaScript, the app may just not work.
AdSense delivers a veritable shitload of ads with big blue download buttons.
> That's a good point but remember that some passengers are not that good at keeping an eye on the row (I also often talk to a driver when I shouldn't without realizing it and he needs to shut me up).

Yes, as a driver I take it as my responsibility to shush people (whether talking via a handsfree arrangement or with passengers) when I need concentration or something unexpected has come up on the road.
make a blog and write about each one. bonus: webtraffic bonus2: resume item bonus3: StackOverflow aka ModOverflow commentary
You might want to familiarize youself with the flaws in making an ad hominem argument.
> That's true, if you care about the points, badges, etc.

Jeff Atwood has discussed this subject fairly extensively, and it does matter to a lot of people, which helps make SO more successful than it would otherwise be.
>Overall the genuine & counterfeit Beats are nearly identical.

But the article did not include any comparison of the audio quality of the counterfeit and genuine Beats headphones, so how could the article come to such a conclusion?
Yep. "Generic composition" (taking independently designed MACs and cipher modes and rolling your own AE) is my cop-out in case 'pbsd shows up to correct me.

Generally, though, and without intending snark:

If you're discussing MTE v ETM, and Bruce Schneier comes up, the answer is ETM.
This is pretty interesting. It shows how much specialized a human can get at doing something. It truly is the closest thing we've got to superheroes.
> They are buying for style and recognition.

That's too simplistic. There's actually quite a few people who prefer Beats' audio, none of that really has much to do with audio tech, but rather with equalizers.

i.e. it's not just style or fashion, it's also sound that really matters. There are quite a few 'blind test' videos on youtube where people prefer the Beats headphones to the technically superior ones.

That doesn't mean that when people prefer Beats' audio, that the audio is 'better', it's just 'better to them'. An objective standard of good audio one could argue is audio that sounds 'as it is', which is where Beats fails. Beats doesn't do that, it deforms the audio to make the bass heavier. And so lots of popular music with young people who like bass, sounds better with Beats, than a more natural headphone which recreates sounds much better.

In short, yes Beats is also about audio, and it's not 'better or worse', just like there's taste in food, fashion, style etc, there's also a taste in audio.

That doesn't fully explain Beats' popularity, of course. There are cheap headphones with equalisers that are bass-heavy that aren't as popular, and that can all be explained like you did with differences in style, fashion, recognition etc. But only mentioning this fails to recognise that there are groups of people who genuinely prefer deformed sound and prefer Beats' audio over even more expensive, technically far superior headphones' audio, regardless of style/fashion etc.
That is very true, but you also have to keep in mind the flip side of this. The people who know the most about a subject, including ourselves, are likely the ones who will be most biased about it.

Not saying that is exactly what happened in the NYT piece, but that is certainly feasible in situations like this. The first person who writes the article is the person who was on duty in the newsroom or its virtual equivalent when the news broke. They don't know the details or history of the greater issue, so they stick to reporting the facts. Later, journalists with more domain expertise rewrite and add to the story. Maybe in this instance they are already knowledgeable about Reddit's questionable history with sexism. They see a story about a sexist website deposing a female CEO who is a controversial figure in gender relations (for lack of a better term). Suddenly the story gets reframed with that in mind. The extra opinion is only added because they know more about the subject.
They also delineate where your personal space is so that people don't invade it.
You can enable AUTOCD and never have to type CD again. :)

shopt -s autocd
Hm … well I don’t like the censors at (insert certain newspaper I dislike here). But I don’t argue that they shouldn’t censor (edit their newspaper), I argue that they shouldn’t lie and write so much bullshit.

If I didn’t like the censors at Reddit I would do the same thing. I think that’s normal and healthy.
The only good bits of Reddit are heavily censored by reddit users, not admins. Admins have not censored unpleasant subs; admins have removed subs that engaged in active harassment of people in other subs, in other forums, or AFK.

EDIT: also, parent comment being downvoted and flagged is ironic.
That's one of many "it doesn't apply to me, so it doesn't matter" scenarios.

As the OPM "hack" has demonstrated, the government has no interest and little culpability in protecting the vital and dangerous information it has collected. If it shows this much disregard for the important information, how much less protection will they apply to the unimportant things?

* I hate calling it a "hack" since it's been determined that OPM gave them access to everything. I covered that over three weeks ago too: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/opm-background-check-hack-a-di...
I'd be careful implying causation here. Another way to look at it is that people who often find themselves in dangerous situations feel the need to have guns to protect themselves. When you think about it that way, it doesn't sound so 'funny'.
The ethics don't stop when you hit 'send to print'
Why not have a 'request move' flag on SO posts? Keeping a discussion alive and having it moved to the right place seems more useful and friendly than just shutting it down.
Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit on AMA
It's mostly not "superficial" versus "meaningful" content, but rather "destination" versus "value-added" content.

The problem with The Dissolve is that you have to decide to go there to engage with it. Most people won't do that.

Value-added content is explicitly designed to be slotted in anywhere on the whole Internet. Nobody decides to engage with that stuff; it just shows up, like a banner ad.
Someone just pointed out that I missed a line in the bit about string length:

"ปฏิบัติจริง".chars = 7 # Perl 6
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Nowadays it's: Big data, The cloud, wearables, The next big thing, REST, Responsive, Immersive etc...
The internet may be infinite, but VC attention and funding most certainly are not.
Let's say I take $1 from you, and give x (where x < 1) cents to someone else, when my friend used to take $2 from you and give y (where y < 2) cents to someone else. Which of these situations constitutes a net gain?
What evidence do you have that Google is trying to block torrent sites specifically? It would seem to me, given the way the safe browsing report is worded, that it isn't the torrent sites themselves that are considered malicious, it's the content being delivered via third parties (i.e., ad networks) that Google's flagging.

You're basically implying a conspiracy by Google to police the internet by limiting access to sites that enable piracy, but I don't understand why you think they'd choose this route rather than just de-indexing torrent sites completely, which they could easily and justifiably do.
I think that there is an opportunity for a different exchange like when SO started, without so many mods. I used to post on SO because it was new, exciting and there were lots of answers and comments, and most of all: activity.
> The true rule should be: Is this question useful to people? Will other experts be able to provide useful back?

Exactly, and it's my understanding that this is very explicitly not the rule - moderators do not care if something is useful, they care only if it "fits the guidelines" - actually guidelines is not the right word, laws would be more accurate.
This comment is thoughtful, polite, and not redundant. It should not be downgrayed
Those are by far my favorite and most useful questions on SO.