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I didn't downvote because I disagreed (or agreed), but because your question seemed very accusatory and asked in bad faith, so it does not contribute to the discussion. A reworded question that made it clear you were honestly inquiring still might not get answered, but I wouldn't downvote.

From the blog post and main screen, I have no idea what this service is selling. Is it promising to aggregate blogs/tweets/FB posts of a certain topic and deliver them to you on a weekly basis? Is it promising to prompt you weekly along the lines of "you promised you'd write about ___ today!"? Is it promising to find ghost writers for the topics you specify, and have them churn out content on a weekly schedule?

Once I've specified weekly blog posts from topics I have in mind, the next form makes it pretty clear that the service will find people to write your blog for you, which sounds pretty skeevy. I don't know how you would detect a Scripted blog post, but I'd rather not see them on HN. If someone's writing is good enough to make it to HN, it should do so under the author's own brand. Just my opinion.

"Local" google voice numbers aren't local enough for these systems. At least not for my last apartment's.

I first saw the term middlebrow in that thread, and I'm still not sure how i feel about the term, but "lowbrow" refers to completely non-intellectual things, and would not appeal at all to someone that values intellectual thinking. I hadn't heard the term until that comment thread, but apparently it has its own Wikipedia page, and has been around since 1925.

What's strange is that the study reveals exactly these different use cases for bookmarks, but doesn't propose a real solution. I currently have well over 100 things in Pocket, and even more in Pinboard, and many different tab groups open in the background (FF). My problem is not how to store things, but how to get myself to follow through instead of seeking out more content.

Maybe if I created a randomly updating HN-like interface for my 'bookmarks' I would be more likely to follow through. Or a daily email to myself of 5 random links.

Because it doesn't add anything to the conversation for someone to point out that their confirmation bias was shown to be wrong.

To address questions 2-4, it's a space-filling curve [1], or basically an easy way to take a line and fill a 2D space. So when a single name is added to a namespace at the beginning of the curve, that blob gets bigger, and every other blob moves 'right'. Once you stare at it a while, you can see that every blob moves along the same path, and it's slightly easier to see which blobs are growing and which are getting shoved. But I agree that it isn't easy, and I think it's because the CPAN Map wasn't meant to be time-lapsed like this.

Edit: if you go to the mapofcpan.org site and click on pixels, I think you'll figure out what the blue areas are.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve

Yea, for 2 hours :/

He should write a post after 6 months of doing this.

More than a few people have blown themselves up since 9/11.

Oh, you mean the astronomically higher incarceration rates of blacks? The ridiculous voter ID laws being introduced across the country? The increased likelihood of being subject to a 'stop and frisk' despite the decreased likelihood of finding a weapon? The fact that most public school systems are funded by property taxes, so poor areas are underfunded?

I can only imagine you're referring to affirmative action, which I would say has done little to undo generations of structural inequality.

I think ardent feminists are focused on making realistic changes to reality, i.e. working with the reality that we have a great diversity of sexual identities, gender identities, and gender roles, rather than try to fight against it. Fair treatment of women and minorities does not entail erasing all differences until we are a uniform grey.

I'm struggling with the idea that you don't think these recent examples are 'actual' racism/sexism. I'd like to think that you're characterizing the people who see the situation as 'risk free' but the more I read your comment, the more I think you really are trying to trivialize recent events.

To take a small step into the oppression Olympics you're trying to play, being told "don't dress like sluts" by a police officer is a direct indication of how your police will handle cases of rape and sexual assault, i.e. poorly. Comments made about "legitimate rape" by politicians reveals the sexism to the point of disregarding reality these politicians hold. And these are the same politicians trying to pass anti-woman legislation. And an government ad campaign is not just words, it's tax dollars and policy.

So sure, I'll grant you that women aren't being sent away from the bank teller outright and non-whites aren't barred from employment explicitly, and I would say not because the -isms have become trivial, but because they have become more complex and/or structural. They manifest in forms where it is difficult to point your finger at something blatant, until someone slips up when speaking and reveals their true feelings and intentions (and no, I don't mean in a Freudian-slip way).

Or sometimes, the effect is so drastic that even though it's not obvious what factors are responsible, we can tell that something fishy is going on: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1cdxtcX2ICdWA2gWMW74...

And it's not 'risk-free' for women to speak out about sexism at work. Many fear backlash at work, and many get long-term harassment and rape threats online. I'd provide examples, but I've already taken so long writing this that now I'm one of many similar responses to your comment. But if anyone asks, I can dig some up.

To be sure, this is not a good outcome, but improper orbit insertion is a serious risk on every rocket launch, whether or not it's SpaceX and whether or not you're the primary payload. I'm glad to see that all parties involved realized this and Orbcomm planned accordingly. It would make little sense to accept the increased risk that a secondary payload status entails and to not be prepared for the consequences.

And SpaceX behaved just as any other launch vehicle provider would in that situation. They gave their best effort to the secondary payload, but in the end, sacrificed it in order to achieve their primary mission.

If you feel that you are qualified to say it is a very concerning component failure based on the scant evidence available, then that's up to you.

First of all, this launch was not a failure, full stop.

I don't know what your background in statistics is, but I'm impressed that you're able to deduce the details of a such a complicated, stochastic process, from only 8 observations, and are willing to extrapolate your predictions for 8 times as many more.

And for someone who loves to comment negatively on SpaceX/Tesla posts, maybe you could spend 5 minutes looking at their Wikipedia pages and see that yes, there have been failures (i.e. unable to achieve stated mission goals and sometimes destroying payloads).

I doubt that. If a software startup designed and built a distributed system that would automatically detect and recover from hardware faults (see: every 'design for failure' post ever), would you say that the hardware faults were due to inexperience or incompetence? Building redundancy into the system was a conscious decision, and they weren't "lucky" to have flown through this anomaly.

No, it's just for easier data retrieval with e.g. selfstats.py. It has a -T option that filters by window title, if I understand the docs correctly.

Hmm...does that mean that dating sites might be able to improve the user experience of 'fit' users by banning/hellbanning the 'unfit' users? Maybe that's what OKCupid is doing with the whole "Congrats! You're attractive" feature.

No, according to this theory, it is because Deep Blue has a completely alien mind, and of the nigh-impossible to count ways in which that alien mind could work, it behaved in one of the many ways that Kasparov failed to consider.

Now, it might about the game if complete randomness is a valid strategy in Go.

Am I not seeing them, or are there no links to TeenageEngineering.com in the piece, or links to the actual announcement, or to where the CAD files can be downloaded? Very poor journalism, IMO. The linked Shapeways blog post has all of those links in the first sentence.

Anyways, I think this is a great development. If TE wasn't making much money on spare parts, might as well not sell them, and with companies like Shapeways around, it doesn't force every consumer to have a 3D printer, either.

The point was not that intent doesn't matter. The point was that intent is not enough when your language (verbal and physical) do not properly convey it.

Was going to post this, since it goes into more detail about each app, and limits itself to apps that follow the Holo guidelines, rather than just 'beautiful' ones (for those that want a more 'consistent' experience). I'm now subscribed to both.

You may be looking for decide.com

Not a single female? There are 3 in the still picture of the video before you hit play. None wearing veils, even, and one in bright yellow, so I'm not sure how you missed them unless you were trying to.

When I read this post all I saw were pet theories, sweeping generalizations and assertions with zero supporting evidence, and anecdotes. Not what I expected to be in the top comment slot of a post that advocates "Go tot [sic] he source. [...] Read actual books and papers. Talk to practitioners."

Or maybe I should have expected to see exactly the kind of behavior that OP was complaining about...

It's the title of the site

Not sure what braiding entails, but according to TFA, they would not have used zip ties. And if by braiding you mean twisted, shielded pairs, then I'm sure they used that.

My guess is that they have cables on the outside _and_ inside, and putting yet another cover over the outside cables would mean more mass. As-is, they only have to worry about wind and sand, so extra metal shielding is probably not necessary.

> refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill

Finishing the project is not one of the rewards unless the creators say it is. Many rewards can be fulfilled regardless of the success of the project (thank yous on web site, T-Shirts, posters, lunch with team, etc). So what it means is that when you create a Kickstarter project and it gives you money, your #1 priority is sending the rewards out.

For anyone that wants to read these posts in an RSS reader one day at a time, I suggest Feed Playback [1]. Just enter the feed URL [2] and a start date of 2012-08-01. Unfortunately, the feed is mixed in with every other update that gets put on the site, so it will take longer than a month to complete.

[1] http://www.streamspigot.com/feed-playback/

[2] http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheArtOfManliness