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danieldonon The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

    The author of the article from this thread is actually practicing skepticism

No, he's making unsupported, assertive claims, premised on the anecdote that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go to OKcupid."

danieldonon The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

How is it at all unusual? The OKCupid data reflects census data on interracial marriage pairings, which shows low numbers of marriages between black women and men of other races (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Uni...). If the OKCupid data showed that black women were both responsible for and recipients of the highest reply rates, that would be unusual.

danieldonon The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

    What kind of data do you absolutely need...?

The kind of data that demonstrates that the OKCupid data doesn't reflect broader dating patterns.

danieldonon The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

Maybe you read a different post, but the one linked here simply argues that "any black person will tell you, when black folks date online they don't go to OKcupid," then lists a bunch of sites targeting black users and concludes that the OKCupid data is not representative of the public at large, despite the complete absence of supporting data. I don't see an analysis of data, just a hypothesis.

danieldonon The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

Hopefully everyone here can recognize that Ta-Nehisi Coates' post simply presents a hypothesis and contains absolutely no supporting data.

danieldonon Ubuntu introduces new theme and branding

How does that make any sense whatsoever as a response to the OP?

danieldonon Actually Reading the Facebook Feed Patent

You are referring to this clause, correct?

"attaching a link associated with at least one of the activities of another user to at least one of the plurality of news items where the link enables a viewing user to participate in the same activity as the another user"

The github news feed includes notifications of comments, and there is a link that can be used to go to the comment page and also comment. As I'm reading clause, the link itself doesn't need to actually cause an action, and the link in that github news item "enables a viewing user to participate in the same activity as the another user."

Also, you can edit and make commits from the web interface, so this could fall under this as well.

danieldonon Actually Reading the Facebook Feed Patent

I guess I'm failing to see why this doesn't apply to a whole bunch of generic social activity feeds. Github's activity feed, for example, seems to fall under the patent. What am I missing?

danieldonon Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

My experience on OS X:

First, Firefox takes a long time to start up, probably between 5 and 10 seconds. Tabs open and close quickly, but there's a constantly noticable 1/2-1 second delay when opening a new window. ⌘-N ... short pause ... window opens. With both Chrome and Safari it's instantaneous.

But perhaps most importantly, Chrome runs everything in separate processes and when you close a tab, that memory is freed up. This is a huge deal compared to both Firefox and Safari. It means you can just leave Chrome open forever, whereas Firefox and Safari will just gradually eat up more and more RAM. If RAM usage from other processes pushes Firefox's memory to disk, then it's even worse, since you then need to wait forever to do anything with the browser while it pulls it from disk. Safari is similar, but not as bad since it's more responsive overall. While with Chrome all you'd need to do is close a couple tabs, with Firefox you have restart the whole app.

And I experience all of this on a Firefox accounts with zero extensions.

There really is no contest. If you aren't seeing a difference I can only presume it's because of your usage patterns or possibly the platform, although I'm skeptical of the latter since people widely report Firefox hogging memory on every platform.

danieldonon GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission

See these for reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132138

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

Still, Slicehost is certainly one of the best VPS providers.

danieldonon Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building

"I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are."

danieldonon Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building

It's terrorism because it's directly in line with 18 USC 2331:

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

danieldonon Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building

He states in the final paragraphs that his goal is to affect change in the government and coerce the public to change the government, so he very clearly did have an objective.

danieldonon Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building

He's absolutely a terrorist according to 18 USC 2331:

His explicitly stated goal was to affect the conduct of the government and coerce the civilian population via mass destruction.

danieldonon Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

"they want to--wait for it--check their mail"

Neither Gmail nor Yahoo are strictly email anymore. If you believe they are are, you're living in a fantasy world. Both have chat, and yahoo even has stuff like calendar and notes. "Webmail" isn't strictly email and it hasn't been for years.

"Reveal My Location To My Abusive Ex-Husband And All His Friends"

What all of the rabid people like you fail to realize is that no information was actually revealed to anyone in this instance. It was a combination of her misunderstand and a bug in google reader that displayed follower/following lists wrong.

Of course, none of you actually care about the facts, you just want to complain.

danieldonon Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

Sane people don't have excessive drama with their exes.