lenazegher

Would you feel the same way if he'd donated $1000 to a campaign to outlaw interracial marriage?

> If someone is saying that men can't take care of children. He or She is not a feminist.

I find it extremely difficult to talk about feminism because it means different things to different people. More than once I have heard statements about feminism from women who self-identify as feminist that contradict one another.

How can I answer the question "are you a feminist?" when the term may mean something very different to the questioner than to myself? Indeed, it may mean something to them that I find incorrect or immoral.

sure, drop me an email, my username at gmail.com

haha, that's actually a pretty funny idea

Two domains I'm not using, stretchier.com and loners.org, are expiring this month. Anyone want either? They're regged at namecheap, can either transfer there or give you a code for another registrar

Don't want to do this exchange because I really don't want another two domains :P

>It's relatively well accepted economics that product pricing tends toward the marginal value, which for software is near zero.

Do you perhaps mean the marginal cost? I don't see any reason that the marginal value to the consumer of software would be near-zero.

In any case, I'm not sure I agree - the marginal cost of AAA video games is near-zero, but the market price is $40-$60.

I don't really understand how this process works. I use multiple accounts from the same machine every day. I'm usually signed into more than one at the same time. But there's no indication that the accounts have been "merged" to any degree, or there being a primary account.

Can someone shed some more light?

Perhaps even more oddly, when I have an interesting link, I tend to post it to the facebook group chat I have running with four of my closest friends.

It's useful because everyone can see everyone else's reaction.

I use facebook almost every day, but I can't remember the last time I posted a status update or read anyone else's status update.

I use it as a glorified chat/email hybrid client. It's useful because only people I've chosen to accept can send me messages (like chat), but it's truly asynchronous, stores everything and supports rich messages (like email).

If, tomorrow, facebook disabled the ability of everyone to post statuses, play games, use apps, answer quizzes, post photos and all the rest of it, my usage of facebook would be precisely the same as it is now.

> I'd rather flag the entire submission. Cooking cheap is one thing, but the "healthy" throughline continues to go nowhere.

Perhaps a better title would be "how to eat as healthily as possible for £1 per day", but I tried to find a balance between precision and clarity.

Yes, the primary energy source is starch, but this is simply a necessity on such a limited budget. Even if you were comfortable getting the majority of your calories from vegetable oil or lard, it would be extremely difficult to find a palatable diet that incorporated such large quantities without breaking the budget.

v0.1 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685812

> Whatever the make-up of the tower below, if it is stable, we can always place the top brick so that it extends half way into the void.

I don't understand the meaning of this statement. If a brick extending halfway into the void is stable, and we can place a brick extending halfway into the void on any stable brick, then we can create an infinitely overhanging tower by placing an infinite series of bricks each of which extends halfway over the void relative to the tower beneath it.

Clearly this is not the case. What does 'stable' mean (precisely) in the above quote?

When I lived in the UK, I called for an ambulance. The responder listened to my situation and told me I didn't sound high enough risk, so I got a taxi. I didn't get the sense this was unusual.

However, it wouldn't surprise me if the liability issues were very different in the UK.

> I wonder if it actually goes one step deeper -- the fact that employees are willing or feel justified in lifting flats of free soda is the first indicator that the company is screwed

I would guess it's got more to do with size than anything else.

When you're in a startup with 50 people and you know the guy who orders the office groceries by name, very few people would start taking home crates of soda. Such an act would have observable consequences (no soda for your team-mates, or office grocery bill goes up very noticeably and you feel like you're ripping off everyone else).

If you work in an office building of 5,000 people, taking home crates of soda doesn't have observable consequences in the same way. Perhaps the office grocery bill goes up 0.5% or one of your teammates has to walk 20 yards to the next fridge over to grab a soda, but from your perspective the effects are marginally indistinguishable from 0. It becomes "wrong" in abstract principle rather than "wrong" in observable effects.

I think this is just another way it's "like AirBnB". I assert the vast majority of AirBnB rentals break either local laws regarding guest houses or hotels, and/or the provisions of the lease in rented accommodation.

Perhaps this service can spare itself from liability from the unlicensed action of its users by including in the ToS "you must have all valid licenses required by your jurisdiction if you choose to charge for hosting a meal".

Edit: I would imagine thing become even more complicated if guests receive wine or other alcoholic drinks as part of the meal.

I've taken a quick look but I can't seem to find a good response: what kind of "interactive campaigns" or "interactive advertising" does tumblr sell at the moment?

>I have an irrational hatred towards SEO. People should stop investing money and time in trying to influence an algorithm that constantly changes and actually invest that time and money in creating better content or a better service that people actually want.

The problem with this approach is that it's entirely possible to invest a lot of time creating wonderful content people want to consume and then have it fester in obscurity because no-one gets the chance to see it.

>As you probably read in advanced security blogs, 7 passes on a disk is a strong erasing option

Is there a single confirmed case of anyone, anywhere recovering any data from a disk that has been overwritten with 0s with dd?

Reasonably sure, unless I'm misinterpreting something: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1006253?hl=en

These data are not being interpreted correctly. Analytics calculates time-on-page based on the time between loads of the google JS embedded in your pages. Any visitor who 'bounces' - that is, only visits a single page - only loads the JS once, so their time-on-page is recorded as 0 seconds, regardless of how long they actually spent on the page.

I don't agree it's unquantifiable in this instance -- the diet is intended to meet the standards outlined by the UK Food Standards organization [1]. Whether or not you agree with the standards is a valid point, but a separate issue.

[1] http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/nutguideuk.pdf

That's a really interesting idea. A potential problem is finding a similar, standardized source of food price data (if you want to include that). Some data are published by the USDA ERS [1], but it's far from comprehensive.

[1] e.g. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/quarterly-food-at-home...

> I think the main weakness of the diet not listed on their weaknesses is they've made no attempt to break it down into a realistic 3x7 meal plan, because it doesn't really make one. Yeah, it's easy to put together a whole load of things cheaply that conform to predetermined values on a spreadsheet, but sometimes sum of the parts does not give you a realistic outcome.

That's a very fair point, but it seemed like premature optimization to try to nail down a meal plan before all the kinks in the nutrition side of things were ironed out. I do plan on getting to that stage in a later version.

Perhaps I should have waited before publishing this post, but honestly, I tend to lose myself in projects like this, and without some indication that other people are interested I often end up leaving the work in an archive somewhere to finish later.

I hope that there's enough data there to be useful/interesting in its current state, but I agree, needs more work

Any mention of calories in the article refers to large calories, hence the notation as kcals.

I agree it's confusing, but because almost everyone means a large calorie when they say "calorie", it seemed like the most readable and simplest solution was to refer to them as calories and use the kcal notation in the tables.

    The so-called "Internet of things" adds another wrinkle. Barrett talked about
    development of refrigerators that can sense what food is inside them and
    automatically order replacement groceries. Perhaps such technology will be
    commonplace in a few years—and your refrigerator will need a way to pay for food.

    "It begs the question, do you really want your refrigerator to know your PayPal
    password?" Barrett said. "Unless we can solve that problem, life is not going to
    be good."

This is a problem that has already been solved. You create an authentication system that supports different privilege levels. You create a secret key for your fridge on a secure device (after authentication with your password). You then transfer this custom-made secret key to your fridge which gives it the privilege to spend no more than X amount on groceries to a small list of trusted vendors.

The biometric solution discussed in the article doesn't even solve this problem. Do you really want your fridge to store your fingerprint or retina data?

The part I have a hard time understanding: even if you register your phone as a trusted device and scan your fingerprint on your phone to log in to paypal, all your phone is doing is sending a secret key to paypal's servers (where's it's presumably hashed and stored).

How does that solve the problems the article identifies?

    "Left to their devices users will pick horrible passwords and then they'll
    reuse them all over the place," Barrett said.
     
    Various data breaches have exposed millions of user IDs and passwords.
    While passwords are typically exposed in an obscured or "hashed" form,
    increasingly powerful processors and password cracking programs allow
    even novice hackers to convert them into plain text

Biometrics forces you to use the same secrets to authenticate yourself with every service, and if weak security allows an attacker to reveal the "plaintext" equivalent of your fingerprint or retina scan, you're fucked.

Any system that's used to increase the security, entropy or uniqueness of your biometrics for each site you register with could equally be used to protect a single, strong master password instead. At least you could change that if it somehow got hacked.

> Why does PayPal have such enormous power? What's stopping other initiatives from getting enough traction?

They have a huge amount of inertia because the average guy of the street has heard of them and can trust them to some degree.

Trying to get people to sign up with a new, unknown payment processor during checkout will have a strong negative effect on your conversion rates.

    What he fails to account for is the fact that math 
    education is so poor that many people don't truly 
    understand what math is. Beyond arithmetic and algebra,
    they think it's some really complicated stuff with big 
    numbers and funny symbols that geeky people with glasses
    do -- it's practically a foreign language to them, 
    except it has a reputation for being much harder.

I can attest to this. Academically, I am a reasonably able person, but I found math simply baffling at school. Arithmetic and algebra were fine. Rudimentary geometry made sense. When we got to trigonometry, things just fell apart for me. We were taught sine, cosine and tangent in the context of how they could be used to derive angles from other angles, not what they were and how they worked. They were presented as tools that could be used in particular ways that had to be memorized. To me, it felt like trying to teach an alien from another dimension to use a hammer without the alien having any intrinsic understanding of mass or momentum or kinetic energy or friction.

In fact, if I'm totally honest, I'm not 100% I completely understand the sine function now. And it wasn't just math. In physics, current, voltage, resistance etc. were taught as inputs to formulas. I know it must be challenging to teach about these kinds of principles that lack concrete macroscopic analogs, but I can't help but feel they could have done a better job than they did. In chemistry too, I remember being taught about valency and how you could work out the valency of an element by its position on the periodic table. I asked what valency actually was, either didn't understand or wasn't satisfied with the answer, asked again, and the teacher brushed off my question and carried on the with the lesson. "Oh well," I thought, "I guess I don't understand chemistry." That was when I was about 12 years old, and I didn't study chemistry after that. I studied biology until I was 16 because I had a teacher who took the time to actually explain things.

The worst part is, I went to a pretty good school. It must be absolutely dreadful at bad schools.

Most of this happened before I had regular access to the internet and the chance to learn about these things for myself. I can't help but feel the whole course of my schooling and advanced education might have been different had I had better (or at least different) teachers of hard science and math at an early age.

I was educated in the UK and given (in my estimation) very poor maths instruction. I stopped studying maths at the earliest opportunity. My undergraduate degree was in the humanities.

Even for me, someone who identifies as being very bad at math, the math section of the GRE was not challenging in the least, even though I had done literally no preparation. (I was applying for a course that required all applicants to take the GRE, even though it wasn't considered at all in the entry process. Apparently it had something to do with funding.)

I guess my point is, I find it difficult to imagine anyone who had completed a degree and was sitting the GRE would find the math section anything beyond elementary.

I guess this is kind of interesting, but it also seems a lot like fluff.