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Search my post history. I use words like cunt or fuck. I don't use the word retard because I recognise that it is frequently used by people committing a hate crime (an actual crime, like violence against the person, or sexual violence, or theft); and I recognise that use of the word contributes to a culture that de-personalises people with LD and makes it easier for doctors to murder them with the justification of "retards have no quality of life".

You're right about the numbers of people who see this use of the word as offensive. That's something that seems to be missed: this isn't a fringe view, it's mainstream opinion. For a lot of people it's not a border case. It's as obvious to a lot of people as eg banning ZippoCat would be.
So this entire thread has been a lesson in the pointlessness of pedanticism.
>If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you're a mathemetician, everything looks like a math problem.

What does the world look like if you're a cardiologist?
It's not required to be offended personally by something to protect freedom of speech, I can understand how else I should say it. And if you don't want to understand it - Charlie Hebdo also published caricatures about christian religion, so it was offensive for them too, for their friends. Muslims just were more aggressive.
I take every downvote on a comment of undeniable factual information as a clear indication of the downward slide of HN.

It is what it is, and the mods couldn't care less.
I would say it's human limitation. The complexity of modern software systems is often times too great for even its creators to grasp completely. Especially since a program is not an island - it interacts with the OS, the hardware, the network, other programs...
I wonder what it would take for people to see that political correctness is a problem.
Even the words "moron", "idiot", etc. all have an etymological root in referring to the mentally handicapped.

I, for one, will think twice about relying on Github in the future if they try to police what is and isn't appropriate language.
Sounds great but perhaps it could be more laudable an initiative which could offset more profits, maybe not lowering too much the cost of the service, towards offering this people an educational path into more qualified jobs, so they don't get stuck in the same low field forever.

Don't want to be harsh, but it seems these days - even without taking into account the opinions made by those close to the company related to the article du jour, that it is quite widespread the notion of being a positive thing creating jobs at whichever price; all the time at the expense of the worker. Also it is a bit ironic reading the PR related to these internet/sharing economy companies, coloring the legal abyss as an opportunity for depressed sectors. But what amount of the demand is new and which is redirected to the same working class but with worse benefits?
They charge ~$150/year for the service according to their FAQ: https://even.me/faq
I don't know where you are, but have you checked to see if there are employment support charities in your area?
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When I was going through flight training, I thought about this a lot. I think the reason is that the places airplanes go is not random. If airplanes just went to random places in the sky at random altitudes, then indeed accidents would be rare, but everyone heads towards airports, which have particular traffic pattern altitudes for instance. I don't know the specifics of this situation, but perhaps the military pilot wanted to practice IFR near the ground and there also happened to be a VFR corridor passing through there. These non-random intents of pilots mean that airplanes get a lot closer together than you would otherwise think.
> grown adults

Now there's an unwarranted assumption if ever I saw one ;)
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Pretty much every hosting provider has this in their TOS.

https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/

3.2 You agree that you will not transmit, distribute, post, store, link, or otherwise traffic in Content, information, software, or materials on or through the Service that (i) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, offensive, profane, contains or depicts pornography that is unlawful, or is otherwise inappropriate as determined by us in our sole discretion, (ii) you know is false, misleading, untruthful or inaccurate, (iii) constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, (iv) impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, or (v) includes anyone’s identification documents or sensitive financial information. DigitalOcean may permit, in its sole discretion, adult websites that abide by state and federal law and regulation.
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$12/mo to manage money for persons in jobs that pay <$12/hr
What is testing?
What about your issues, pull requests, visiblity of forks?
See also: http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permis...

That article points out some things that are even worse in the privacy policy, for the technical preview however:

“Microsoft collects information about you, your devices, applications and networks, and your use of those devices, applications and networks. Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.”

“We may collect information about your device and applications and use it for purposes such as determining or improving compatibility” and “use voice input features like speech-to-text, we may collect voice information and use it for purposes such as improving speech processing.”

“If you open a file, we may collect information about the file, the application used to open the file, and how long it takes any use [of]it for purposes such as improving performance, or [if you]enter text, we may collect typed characters, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spell check features.”

Here is the policy itself: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-privacy-s...
I don’t think this article is fair and borders on click bait, with a salacious headline and handpicked responses.

1. All all the facts are NOT in, yet judgment has been reached and mudslingers are throwing.

2. By the NTSB preliminary report, the entire time from the first pilot warning (1100:18) to midair (1100:52) was 34 seconds. Barely half a minute for life and death decisions to be made. All of which fell on ATC and the F-16 pilot with the civilian not in radio contact.

3. ATC made the traffic call. 8 seconds later ATC gives the ‘turn south’ call. The F-16 pilot asks ‘confirm 2 miles’. 8 seconds later ATC says ‘if traffic not in sight, turn immediately 180.’ The F-16 pilot complies and begins his turn south. 18 seconds later they collide.

4. From 2 miles to collisions in 34 seconds coincides with just under 4 miles a minute closure or 240kts. Cesna at 60 and F-16 at 180 seems reasonable.

Could the F-16 driver have overbanked and started his turn quicker by a few seconds? Maybe, but there was only 16 seconds and the pilot collided in a turn, so if he’d delayed a few more seconds the collision would have been a miss.

Also, how responsible is a civilian pilot for climbing through an instrument approach near a military airfield without radio contact?

It’s a tragedy. Military aviation could probably ditch Tacan approaches, but they are good training. Perhaps any that are close to civilian fields need to be given the axe.

Yet to blame this only on the military pilot and military pilots in general is a complete disgrace. An accident is like swiss cheese, with multiple holes. Errors with people, processes, and things all help cause it.

If only one thing would have changed (if the turn started earlier or later, if ATC picked up the radar hit earlier, if the F-16 pilot got a visual quicker, if the F-16 had a radar lock, if the Cesna was in radio contact, if the Cesna stayed below and didn’t climb through an instrument approach) the crash wouldn’t have happened.

Aviation is dangerous, especially if you aren’t in a bus. Even a bus driver is mildly dangerous.[1] General Aviation and Fighter Aviation are especially dangerous. While I’m all for lessons learned, this salacious, click-bait, profiteering-off-a-tragedy, poised-as-a-question trash doesn’t help.

[1] http://qz.com/410585/garbage-collectors-are-more-likely-to-d...
I work in an organisation that has a large technical debt. The organisation manages at least $A60b of member's assets, and is overseen by the Australian Tax Office. It also is very visible politically. These three factors make it extremely conservative in terms of change.

However, change is imposed on it inevitably from the outside, so instead of making large-scale changes to its architecture, it tries to keep up with the market by making thousands of small hacks. The original architecture was not designed to cope with this, so it has become hack upon hack upon hack. I should be employed (and paid above-average) in this jobs for decades to come.
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MMU?

I see one place seemingly using RISC-V with an MMU in the classic desktop PowerPC style (Linus Torvalds posted a great rant about the stupidity of that MMU) and another place that is seemingly using RISC-V with an MMU that is very much like x86 (the paging part, obviously no segmentation) but with distinct rwx.

Which is it? Did this not get specified? Constantly changing the MMU greatly hurt 32-bit SPARC and PowerPC.

FWIW, this is good: Bits 0..11 direct mapped, bits 12..29 are x86-style page table tree node indexes that are hardware-walked, and bits 30..63 are software-filled like MIPS. (a forest of trees) In the low bits of the bottom level you get: can read, did read, can write, did write, can execute, did execute, user/super (exclusive), type ram/framebuffer/mmio/pte (two bits), reserved, and validity. The "did foo" bits on PTE pages do get updated.
Funny how the parent repository username "WebMBro" basically tells you all you need to know... bro.
Just to oppose the pessimism here - we use docker in production and so far it has worked pretty well. We do run into the problems mentioned in article but they aren't insurmountable. We also built a tool around cluster/deploy management just like we had to do with chef.

IMO any tool that does procedural run-time configuration like chef/ansible/puppet will generally be inferior to an image based infra management solution. (unless you're using said tools to build images - which is another ball of wax that will likely end up looking like a reimplemented docker)

The problem with procedural run-time config is that unless you blow away the VM, build from scratch, and run a test suite you don't really have good assurances your infrastructure is in a good state. With images, you have a bit for bit copy of what was built and tested in CI or QA. This is, for us, worth the price of admission.
Only 3% have asked for refunds as of 5th November last year[1]. Could be more now, of course, but demand is still high. They'll sell the returns no matter what.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/05/virgin-galact...
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Regarding the author's point on reaping children, it is a well know issue. I wrote (and I'm sure I'm not alone) a replacement 'process 1' for that: https://github.com/Fusion/cfr_reaper
I don't trust my livelihood to the need to say offensive things, either.

Regardless, I'm going to excuse myself from this conversation. What I've done is present an analogy to you (no more of an "uninteresting non-sequitur" than your talk about cucumber eating) and apparently it fell on unwilling ears. And typically, when one's brain stops understanding analogies, that's a pretty good sign it isn't working at all. So get some rest and think about it when you're in better condition.
My favourite one is this one: https://www.coverfox.com/404/
It was mentioned on HN some weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9811077).
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Thank you for your list. I usually start out thinking I'll watch all the videos from a conference but halfway through the playlist, life happens and I put it off till later. This time I'll watch the ones you've suggested and the others if possible.
Things have changed since I was doing frontend dev (<table>), and I want to brush up on modern CSS techniques. Could someone answer the following for me?

1. Is flexbox the way to go (i.e. the new standard?)

2. Is there a css primer to help with all this? I tried centering a div with CSS once, it didn't end well!
While Der Spiegel and Le Monde have both broken many major stories (I believe the participated in the Snowden publishing along with the Guardian and the NYT), Does the Economist do any investigative journalism? There's some nice commentary on news, but I've never heard of anything break by them
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Here's a simplified version: energy generation in the mitochondria is based on the energy differential between the intermembrane space and the inner mitochondrial membrane (I may have confused those membranes). Most uncouplers act to reduce that differential, thus causing inefficiency in the system, which is lost as heat.

tl;dr uncouplers mess with H+ ions.
Most systems I see run debian or a debian based distro(such as Ubuntu). By comparison to RHEL, they are all running with "edgy kernel features".
Meanwhile the guy with Hitler profile picture is still enjoying GitHub despite multiple reports!

https://github.com/followtheart
Yes, I would like to ban the use of the word "ape" to refer to a black man (at least on Github), keeping in mind the Use-mention distinction and "common sense" to realize that the person was actually using it as a slur.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...)
Is Data plural in English usage?
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I agree, it is almost ignored in most tutorials and I only see implementation examples in some neat projects, and always left with a wondering mind.
I've tried out almost all the available project management tools. Happy with:

http://ganttpro.com - to build comprehensive project plans in seconds

http://trello.com - to collaborate on projects better

http://jira.com - to track bugs and improve development processes

https://wunderlist.com - to easily manage my own tasks, track projects' progress and get the latest info about the stage of development

The greatest disadvantage of these tools is that to cover all the aspects of my daily work, I have to use four of them, instead of using one.
Used to? Do you not have plenty of water now? That would surprise me. Unless you're talking about one specific urban area, in which case it would still surprise me but not as much.
Wrong way to look at it. Tools don't matter. They change comstantly. In my over thirty years in engineering and product development (hardware and software) I'd say only four things matter:

Design. Planning. Process. People.
I read it, I just don't understand it.
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Computers are made of metal, not category theory (2014)
The unique advertising ID is possible to opt out of and if you opt in again it generates a new one so you won't get associated with the old one.

Anyway is it not as if apps aren't collection information on people without asking already.
The meaning of the word retard has drifted. It used to be a totally acceptable word, a polite alternative to Mongoloid, used by doctors and societies.

Now outside the US it's pretty much only ever used as hate speech. The US is a bit different because the word still has some small pockets of acceptable use (although I can't see those lasting much longer).
>you either get free speech as a social virtue or you don't.

False dichotomy. Many people get that free speech is a social virtue, because many people see protection from government censorship as a social virtue. What it sounds like is that you wish was a social virtue is the ability to behave or act in any manor on privately-owned websites without having to face the consequences of your actions.

We can consider hypothetical slippery-slopes about private websites implementing tyrannical policies, but that doesn't suddenly make it a "free speech" issue. Asking "Would you go quietly if banned from a privately held website" doesn't suddenly mean it's a "free speech" issue. Does making a certain amount of noise make something a free speech issue?

There are distributed networks (like bitcoin or other P2P) that are owned and controlled by the communities that support them. Maybe you should consider supporting those instead of trying to redefine "free speech" to fit your beliefs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394420
That is very sensible. Github is free to impose any arbitrary rule and repo admins are free to use competitor's products.

In fact Github cares very little about "offense" but probably only cares about their own profits. Private companies applying this sort of censorship is not a bad thing.

For example Apple, Google completely control the apps that will feature in their apps stores. That has actually improved the security of mobile devices lot more otherwise imagine a Ask Toolbar app playing an ad each time your call someone.
Pro-security? Stay away from these hosters
Can someone more familiar with this stuff tell me why the air traffic controller had the F-16 turn left, so that its path would cross that of the Cessna's? Seems backwards.
Lots of movies (and especially TV) are made on the cheap outside of Hollywood and around the world. There still seem to be a significant demand for Hollywood-style grand productions and movie stars.
Twitter just lost 12% of its value. Here is what they should do
Twitter needs to hire me to fix their business model. Have you ever read a tweet like "I just got my new DX3250, and its amazing!", and the obvious question is: What the hell is a DX3250!? Its the inherent problem of twitter that it doesn't provide very much in terms of context. So what do you do? Well, you go to google and google DX3250. This has got to be a major loss to twitter. Google gets ad money from people selling the DX3250, while the place that made you interested in it gets nothing. Why cant who ever sells what ever a DX3250 is just buy the word so that every instance of the word that appears in a tweet it becomes a link to what ever the advertiser wants the link to be. All sponsored links can have a different color and a pop up announcing who sponsors the link. Let companies bid for words and let anyone bid for any word. If Coke buys the link to the word "Pepsi", Pepsi co will have to out bid them. What will Coffee be worth to Starbucks? Who will buy "New car"? Twitter needs to be twitter and stop trying to be something else, and turn its weakness in to a strength.
You can find your answers in the Privileged ISA spec (http://riscv.org/download.html#tab_spec_privileged_isa).

Of course, it's an open ISA, so you can do whatever you want. The style of virtual memory you choose to use will depend on the target application.
Another important factor is how much of an effect 10ft vs 12ft lanes have on motorcycle filtering (lane splitting). Outside of the US (north america), it is a common practice and known to be safe [1]

[1] http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/uc-berkeley-study-finds-lan...
And in the meantime:

Over the last 11 years, these fuzzers have found 6450 Firefox bugs,
including 790 bugs that were rated as security-critical.
Github has a problem with this project's language, and they are boycotting the repo.
"if you're a pilot or into aviation, definitely read Fate is the Hunter."

Second that, "Fate is the Hunter" [0] by Ernest Gann [1] describes the precarious life of a US career airline pilot (including descriptions of flying DC2's, DC3's & DC4's, flight seniority and luck) between the 30's to the 50's. The book is dedicated to a hundred or so commercial pilots not as fortunate as EKG.

"Although we can never be absolutely certain,
we now believe the Eastern Airline crash at
Bainbridge was caused by unporting. Do you
know what that is?"

I confessed that I had never heard of it.

[Unporting: could be caused by a missing
elevator hinge bolt, like that missing on
Gann's DC-4, and cause an uncontrollable
nose-dive, if the plane were flown at certain
speeds and center of gravity loadings.]

"Did you slow down when you first noticed
the vibration? You did not because you had
no fear of it. But if you had been the
nervous type, if you slowed down, the center
of gravity would have changed. That would have
been quite enough to complete the process of
unporting which had partially begun."

The title of the book is derived from the fickle nature of flight and how cumulative mistakes become catastrophic depending on luck and fear associated with flying. [2]

One interesting chapter I do remember is Ch16, "A Pretender" where an untrained pilot takes command of an aircraft only to be found out by very poor co-ordination. Gann describes how nobody checked his credentials prior to employment of commercial flying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_K._Gann

[2] http://rwebs.net/avhistory/fate.htm
Good founders hire people better than they are themselves.

It's pretty rare to see that kind of effort be paid back my a cuckoo maneuver like this. You owe your job to this guy, have some decency.

Imagine if every start-up started firing founders because they hired people that are better at some element of the running of the company.

Also: if I were the CEO of this company and you came to me with your request to 'fire a founder' I'd most likely fire you and replace you with someone more aware of their place in the universe. It's not as if you got named to the board of directors and were given a majority share when you got your job.

You're lucky your CEO is either very diplomatic or a little lightweight.
i was very excited by this, and was thinking about donating money. then i read http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Samasource-Reviews-E483520.... - in particular, the 40% turnover rate within a year is very concerning.
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Ask HN: Why is it that every time I fix a bug its the LAST solution I try?
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I propose a hybrid of #2 and #4: "Don't work too much on illusory friendships."
> What sacrifice have you ever made

Personal donations of money and time towards diversity-in-tech efforts. You?

> What makes you so holier-than-thou

Basic human decency. You?
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1) Yes. 2) This is a pretty nice short intro http://flexboxin5.com or for a fuller treatment check MDN, as for any other web technology. There are a bunch of other sources linked from this discussion thread if you scroll down a bit.
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You have not developed a good intuitive sense for debugging. It will come with time.
In the case of github, they can and have taken down/blocked repos that foreign govt have found objectionable. So its not the odd offensive word here and there. Luckily, git makes it easy to have multiple copies of a repo lying around all over the place.
There are things like Liberty VPS etc which "fight" for free speech.

Or Tor hidden service.