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Because I'm a supporter of all language, especially hate speech. Or the communist speech back in the 50's. Or Snowden's speech about violations of our government against us.

Banning thoughts and words, as you seem apt to suggest, is how we migrate away from the principles of the 1st amendment. Of course, you will be wont to tell me that a private company isnt bound by them. Indeed.

But where do we stop? It may be vogue to silence the KKK, which is pretty established for hate speech and actions. But what then? Who decides amongst us what hate speech is and isnt? How far do we go down this rabbit hole? The answer is, "We wont" from SCOTUS.

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freespeech/tp/Hate-Speech-C...

[F]reedom of speech...," Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the 5-4 majority, is "protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest ... There is no room under our Constitution for a more restrictive view."
Obviously the people involved think it will make the world better for some people.
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Yeah, also the trauma and panic it incites.
My pipe dream is to be a non-shitty version of Erlich from Silicon Valley. I'd love to run an "accelerator" program out of a space that I owned where you take a bunch of smart people and set them loose, it seems like a perfect cross between fierce capitalism and communal living.
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>The term isn't even usually applied in contexts like this one. This here is usually called moderation or content policy or editorial standards etc. And most people don't consider it a bad thing.

This is false. Facebook's ban on photos showing female nipples is constantly referred to as censorship.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lina-esco/facebook-war-on-nipp...
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I think it sucks that Cecil was killed, but the dentist thought he was hunting legally.
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Yup, eventually. For me, it's one of the huge benefits of working at AngelList. VCs, Angels, and LPs walk in and out of the office every day, and I live and breath VC every day, while still working at a startup. I've learnt more about VC in 8 months at AngelList than most founders will in all their funding rounds combined.

I used to think of myself as starting a successful company or two, and retiring to VC or as an Angel… I've come to realize that that scenario is entirely unrealistic. Few founders have the experience needed to do this right off the bat. It'd probably be hugely beneficial to anyone to work in the industry for a bit before jumping in. Work for a VC, or work for a VC-related company (e.g. AngelList, FundersClub, Equidate, eShares…)

If this sounds interesting, we're hiring - https://angel.co/angellist/jobs.
I would never use the word retard as an insult to someone with disabilities. I would use the word to describe things I find stupid. Even if I did find the word retard offensive, I wouldn't like what github did here.

Yes, they have the right to remove words they don't like.
Yes, I have the right to not use their platform.

Github's time as a central source for code is limited anyway. If you don't like what they do contribute to projects that make the web more decentralized.
All Bitcoin mining clients have to be bug-for-bug compatible with every other client or else you get forks like these. I think the fork in question was caused by a miner running a recently released version (v8.0) of the software who mined a large block that was incompatible with the older versions (<0.7x) of the software.

The miners running the old software didn't recognize the block and instead created their own chain while miners with the new version were working off of that newly mined block.

https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork
I've been seeing that more and more lately and GOD it's obnoxious. It suddenly feels like my phone is out of controls because things aren't 'moving' right. I don't know why they think it's a good idea either. On most sites it's way too fast and on a few it's slow as molasses.

At this point when I run into 90% of this stuff I switch to Reader mode in Safari, which also cures things like insane font sizes and pages that refuse to let you zoom in.

Reader mode not available for your site? I won't read it. If you want to go out of your way to make it hard to read (not just ads that distract, but ones that cover up or things like scrolling that break basic interaction) then you must not want me reading your content.
If you are streaming to your car audio from an Android phone, there are a couple of DSP effect apps that include dynamics compression among other effects - DSP Manager and Viper4Android
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I need to easily deploy landing pages I build with Sinatra somewhere (I know, overkill, static,blah blah). Heroku just sent me my first "you used 16 hours of free tier" thing that says in a few months they'll start just killing your dynos after that.

Is there some kind of buildpack for Linode or AWS to easily deploy multiple apps hosted at different subdomains? Where do we go from here?

Note: I appreciate all Heroku has done for the community and still pay them for stuff, but this is just one part of what I do at work and I need to replace it now.
Opt-out via monthly fee?
> Large over-ear headphones exert NO pressure on any part of the ear. They are basically inverted cups that go over and around your ear and insulate.

You don't say.

> Are you saying those don't work for you?

Yes, it's not a question of pressure on the external ear or I'd have said "my ears are too large" and wouldn't have mentioned the middle ear.

> Unless you're talking about the volume of music making your ears hurt

No, it's not a question of volume.

> I didn't say anything about listening to anything on those headphones.

Neither did I, though

> Just having them on provides enough insulation that you don't need to pipe in any additional sound

Hardly, even with high-quality closed 'phones.
I'm gonna squeeze some deep learning into your mom.
The TPP is a wholesome beneficial legislation, orchestrated by businesses around the world to ensure their continued profits and ownership of capital creation, such as copyright (it will be harder to share content online without paying for it and DMCA youtube takedown style action will increase.) Furthermore it allows corporations to legally prosecute governments for getting in the way of their hard-earned profits or potential profits, for example if you don't allow a gold mining corporation to mine your gold, you as a country will be sued for the value of that gold.

I can't understand why everyone has got their panties in a bunch over this; that small group of people with capital who makes and influences the laws will do what they can to make sure they keep getting the capital for the future, so that there is less transfer of wealth, which is necessary for a stable global economy.. I personally am looking forwards to when governments are abolished entirely and corporations simply write laws along side their company charters. Whichever corporation has more money, has more rights to enforce their laws.
contribute excellent products and services to the market, while living an adventurous life with the proceeds

I'd bet most of the people who hang out in places like YC want the same. What is the probability of success though?
International travel now has a new source of entertainment: On-the-spot generation of humorous mistranslations.
You can go very far down the wrong path in a 2 week planned sprint. Sorry, even with a well planned sprint and an experienced product owner, you still have a lot of questions that need to be evaluated halfway through the sprint, and talking to others is how you resolve them.

As for distractions...are you such a precious princess that someone adjusting the light level or bumping into your chair completely removes your ability to be productive?
How do you get by and achieve anything in this world?

Why are we optimizing to create work environments for such snobbery? What makes you assume that by default EVERY single problem that others might have is not worthy of an interruption enough that you need your own private office to protect yourself from the proletariat?
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I distinctly understand hunting wildlife to eat, are causing danger to your property or if they are causing harm to your land (like wild hogs overpopulated in Most of Texas), however I will never understand hunting these exotic and largely docile creatures.

Just absolutely disgusting.
You mean like when Microsoft tried to force adoption of Windows Vista by not bringing DirectX 10 to XP, and in response developers stuck with DirectX 9 for years?

A huge portion of the gaming market (China and large parts of Asia) is still using Windows XP. D3D9 renderers aren't going anywhere.
I want to do this in the Tampa area. Come hack in my huge house/workshop for free, keep your equity. I just want to see you build something cool.
You're right, it is self-evident to me that group productivity is not the aggregate of individual productivity. We have companies and teams for a reason.

Secondly, the goal of a company is rarely to maximize aggregate employee productivity. If you can realize the same profits with fewer LOF, stories delivered, or whatever your employees "produce", why not?
it declares jquery as a requirement but doesn't actually use it - https://github.com/gitboard/gitboard/blob/master/src/js/comp...
Per the Code of Federal Regulations:

Civil aircraft means aircraft other than public aircraft.

Public aircraft means any of the following aircraft ...

(1) An aircraft used only for the United States Government ...

(2) An aircraft owned or operated by the armed forces ...

(3) An aircraft owned or operated by the National Guard ...
Really though, he does seem like a marketing puppet...

Because I question the importance of DVD playing ability relative to an enormous, free release? Give me a break.

I suppose this mean that you and acqq must work for Apple or Google or some other competitor that is trying to undermine Microsoft. By your logic, that is just as, if not more, rational.
You can still make it full screen if you want:

Settings > Personalization > Start > Use Start full screen
You could run the pool by saying any child under 16 needs to be accompanied into the pool by an adult and can never be more than 2m away from that adult, one adult per child. Hell why only children, everyone in the pool needs one designated person they won't go more than 2m away from so they can watch each other.

You could introduce a rule that nobody can speak or make any noises that aren't a direct result of swimming, so that when someone is in trouble it's easier to hear them and/or someone else alerting to the problem.

Both of those would still be running the pool, both of them would make it easier to keep people from drowning, and it wouldn't be impossible to have fun. It would be much less fun, but not impossible.

But you've drawn a line that those rules would be going too far, whereas banning flotation devices isn't too far. You've balanced in your mind safety vs. entertainment to see what's worth doing and what isn't. I'm not arguing with your decisions, I know nothing about keeping swimmers safe, I'm just saying in response to "my job was to guard lives, not provide entertainment" that if you really didn't care about anything other than saving their lives you could be much stricter and make the pool much less fun, but a tiny bit more safe.
This dentist doesn't have a leg to stand on though bc he has previously been charged with killing a black bear on illegal land and dragging the black bear many miles to a legal hunting area.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cecil-lion-killer-walter-j...
It's AMAZING what a difference that can make, which really just shows how terribly written the JS on most sites is. It's often faster when pulling up an article in Twitterrific to have it open in Safari than to try to let it finish 'loading' in the web view.

No page should have so much JS (for ads and such) that without a hyper-fast JS engine it feels like it stopped loading.
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Technically it was $700
Which part is bullshit? Prototyping? Shipping fast? CD? MVPs? If you are working at a company in 2015 and you are not working on an OS, and you are not doing these things, you are a dinosaur.

Yes, you disturb someone. You let them consider whether they want to pause what they are doing and join your conversation, and make it more productive, or put their headphones on and tune you out. The choice exists.
Why would you not use it? You can annoy your user with it and not have the concern of being blocked by some stupid popup blocker? Do you want to take a survey? Sign up for my newsletter? I know it's your first time on the site and you didn't even get to the content yet but SERIOUSLY I NEED YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.
The article mentioned they are measuring particulates. That is exactly what you're hoping they expand, so good news! They already will be measuring that.
I misspoke when I implied that all children brought up by single parents are bastards. In any case, my point stands. Github makes children born out of wedlock feel unwelcome and they should change their name.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specificat...

For a limited time (the “eligible period”), on systems upgraded to Windows 10 from one of these older versions of Windows (a “qualified system”), a DVD playback app (“windows DVD player”) will be installed.

They aren't stealing anything from you, and they're not causing it to be "for ever deleted."

I just checked with my Windows 7 Ultimate machine I upgraded this morning and sure enough, I have a Windows DVD Player there. Like many users, I have no DVD drive and no DVDs, so I can't confirm it works.

Also, Windows 8 didn't come with a DVD license, you had to buy it separately as part of the "Pro Pack" or "Media Center Pack." The base editions of Windows 7 (below Home Premium) also didn't include one.
It's delicious how many who can't or won't understand the concept of being offended are now worrying aloud about being shamed.
Imho, this strikes me more as a similar situation as a primary school kid getting suspended for swearing at school. Sure, freedom of speech technically allows him to say whatever he wants, but at the same time the school is responsible for preventing classes from turning into a profanity-fest.

What's the big deal if Github did delete the repo data from their servers? Isn't the whole point of Git that you can just go and setup an upstream somewhere else with a one-liner? They are merely a free hosting provider among many.

This is not a dispute against the government, so the discussion about censorship and the rights and responsibilities entailed by free speech isn't relevant at all. Remember that the free speech provision is primarily intended to be about citizens' ability to self-organize to defend their constitutional rights if their representatives don't have citizens' interests at heart; it's not meant to be used as an excuse for immature behavior.
>Unbeknownst to some, Javascript comes equipped with a relatively good set of bitwise operators.

Never thought that there were people doing Javascript who didn't know about bitwise operators. I guess I know where 99% of the "Javascript sucks" posts come from.
My machine does not have a product key in the BIOS, it is older than that :)
Thanks! Gonna get Steve to sit down again soon for us to talk about the next 10 years...
Link to Github: https://github.com/lsm/micromono
For that matter.... https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=nigger&type=Repos...
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I've thought about it. I'd like to get involved in more due diligence for investors (I've done this on an ad hoc basis a several times), and probably be an EIR for 3-6 months whenever it is convenient. I would only consider the ~5 universal top tier plus the ~5 top tier in my area of interest (security/infrastructure).

The full-time role I'd love would be opening up a new geography for a fund; say, a Berlin office for a top tier fund, focused on privacy/infosec/liberty investments in Europe.

AngelList kind of kills all but the top tier. If I had more money, I'd be investing or syndicating on AngelList.

I'd still rather do a startup again in a couple years, but EIR might be a nice transition, and seeing the other side would be interesting.
Expose... needs new word. I've been exposed to the flu without catching it. It sounds overly theoretical.
You can always extract it from NT4, just run this in the i386 folder:

EXPAND.exe PINBALL.IN_ C:\PINBALL.INF

Take the list of files from there, and expand them, ex.

EXPAND.exe PINBALL.EX_ C:\PINBALL\PINBALL.EXE
EXPAND.exe PINBALL.HL_ C:\PINBALL\PINBALL.HLP
REM etc.

If you don't have an ISO at hand or if you prefer to avoid extracting/expanding the files: https://archive.org/details/pinball.7z
Uh, you might want to look up "idiot" in the OED. "moron" also.
which really just shows how terribly written the JS on most sites is

IMO, not necessarily. I was playing around with a D3 visualization that ran terribly within the UIWebView, there was really very little I could do about it.

But I won't argue that plenty of sites are overusing JS for rendering etc when they should be leaving that to static HTML.
I'll get the popcorn ready while waiting to see what hospital IT have to say about this.

They have already banned use of Microsoft's new mobile Outlook apps (iOS,Android,Win Phone) when they found out that these are actually thin clients to a cloud service that performs MITM on the hospital Outlook server to download, store and processes all email (the cloud servers aren't even fully Microsoft--they became Microsoft's via acquisition). And of course it stores usernames and passwords in order to accomplish this (confirmed by common sense, obtuse fine print and deceptive non-denials by Microsoft support). The penalties in HIPAA and HITECH aren't jokes (and now include jail time).
I suppose it comes back to this crazy religion (Ayn Rand et. al.) that looking after yourself at the expense of others is the only way to make the world stable. It's very convenient for people who are being selfish or making things worse to agree with such crackpot ideas.
I hear that people have written entire books on the subject. Do you have a point you were trying to make other than "markets are not sentient and rational"?
Just capture the screenshot and you have a meme generator as well!
I'd be curious as to your reaction to Ars Technica's review, in which they complained about what they perceived as a "debilitating" Start Menu issue: "This database is (inexplicably) maintained by a system service running as the super-privileged SYSTEM identity. And at the time of writing, this database has the oh-so convenient feature of being limited to around 500 entries. [...] The All apps view didn't show all my programs. This would be tolerable if that's all that happened [...] Except that searching breaks, too. For search-to-start apps, Windows appears to use the same database. [...] if you reduce the number of apps to below 500 or so, it doesn't fix anything. There's no easy way to make it re-read all the short cuts."
If you want one that doesn't leave DOM lingering when closed, look for one that uses this or the same approach:

https://github.com/tajo/react-portal
Sadly, I think a factor of why smaller orgs do this is simply because larger orgs do.
I was working at a smallish company that had a wonderful layout. The customer support team had an open layout of mini cubes (walls between desks but not extending past desk), which worked great for them, and the engineers had a closed off room that was basically off limits to anyone who wasn't an engineer. It was wonderful and productive. Then, the owners decided to change everything to intermingled open for everyone. No more walls, just flat desks everywhere. Why? All because they visited a couple other companies such as Facebook, etc. And that is how they saw it done there. If it works for them it must work for us, right?
Excuse me for my ignorance but why do you think internet access has anything to do with a revolution?

Isnt a revolution a complex sociological phenomenon?

Im pretty much sure whatever holds DPKR together isnt lack of internet access.

Source: Iranian who lived through Iran's Green movement
This part baffles me as well. The Cessna was at 1200 feet indicated to begin with. AFAIK, Mode C has an error of +- 200 feet.

That doesn't sound like adequate vertical separation to me. Why not ask for a 500 foot climb instead of giving a vector?
Oh for fuck's sakes. I wear headphones 90% of my day WITH NOTHING PLAYING IN THEM.

We need to stop treating developers like precious children. You do not need ABSOLUTE SILENCE to be able to do your work. 99% of us are not writing the next PageRank or inventing the next Djkstra's Algorithm. And even when we are 99% of the time is spent on build environments and configuration and plumbing.

This does not require absolute uninterrupted focus surrounded by silence. Making a mistake does not cause a bomb to go off or a plane to fall out of the sky.

Put on a pair of comfortable headphones and do not plug them into anything and 75% of the noise around you is gone. Turn on some white noise or some gentle ambient music of dozens of lyrics-free genres and it goes up to 95%. If the only way you can work is if you can't hear any other noise outside of your own head, you have failed as a human being because no other profession requires that.
Wow, that OPM attack sure was a doozy. If you check it your entire financial history is out there. Man, I mean, we talk about National Security concerns and some of the bloviating from the feds on Hn all the time. But wow, that OPM hack sure was a heck of a national security attack.
I met one of their directors a few months back at an exhibition in London. Their app allows you to transmit media as an audible "chirp" so it can be received on mobile devices.

It looks interesting and certainly has applications in my own industry (face to face marketing). The Arduino SDK makes it very appealing to those involved in building physical marketing materials, e.g. click the big red button to get a link to our website.

The Android app seems well polished and is fun to use, and from what I can tell the team behind it has a vision that extends far beyond sending snippets of media (think bitcoin, lead capture, event ticketing etc).
Do you support banning all github projects that use the word "insane"? I assume you must, to be consistent in your morals.
Could you understand hunting humans to eat them? If a child decided to ruin your flowerbed, should it be ok to shoot the child? The evolutionary gap between lions and humans is only in the tens of millions of years. In my opinion, it should only be acceptable to kill animals in self defense. They are all conscious beings like us. That said, I'm not a vegetarian, and I care more about my selfish desires than what is right or wrong.
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Should "gimp" be banned from github?
As a European the one you should be concerned with is TTIP.

It is basically TTP, but involves Europe instead of East Asia and Australia.
waitFor is a code smell to be honest. Switching to a flux implementation that makes it unnecessary is your best bet (like redux)
I've got a pair of [1] in currently, no music, and they're doing a pretty good job of drowning out people talking at normal volume 6ft away. I'll admit they're doing a less good job of the strident conversation 10ft away and the plague of ringing phones but without music, I'm ok with that.

(NB. This reply entirely useless if you can't tolerate in-ear buds.)

[1] http://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones/ek5.html
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Why don't you just search for what you're looking for?