mkrdouble

Thank you for posting this. This is the kind of thing I come to HN for.

Yeah, I don't see why it's so bad to point out that the site is completely illegible. Reminds me a bit of Wired magazine circa 1997.

Also consider dragging one of these to your bookmark bar: https://readability.com/bookmarklets

I believe he's only been temporarily blocked, but he doesn't say why (which doesn't lead much credence to his argument, IMO)

I suspect most people are up-voting this story because of the link-bait title.

The author's blog posts don't really give much in the way of a substantial explanation of what's going on here. The impression I get is similar to other comments here: he comes off as raving and kind of irrational? He's mad about something on Wikipedia and he says he's been blocked, but then doesn't say why?

If you're interested in actually figuring out what's going on, it's worthwhile to read the actual page, which goes into a lot of detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

As far as I can tell, none of the journalists who wrote stories about this read that page, and none of them talked to any of the members of the Wikipedia ArbCom committee. Seriously. Check out Wikipedia ArbCom member Molly White's twitter over here:

https://twitter.com/molly0x57

and https://twitter.com/molly0x57/status/558687811298000896

She's pretty angry about the press' interpretation of the events here, wherein many of the articles basically flat-out said that "feminists have been carte-blanche blocked from Wikipedia!" The press loves to feed off controversy on Wikipedia, and also loves to not do their homework.

That said, Wikipedia does have an editor gender gap, but I'm not sure there's a lot that can be said based on these blog posts here.

This looks really great, and has some big names endorsing it. Has anyone here read the book and could provide some additional insight on what the book did for you?

If you're into this kind of thing, then I cannot recommend the group blog, "Arms Control Wonk" enough!

http://armscontrolwonk.com/

It contains some seriously in-depth analysis of both current and historic nuclear weapons development, with a strong bend toward the diplomatic and political side of things.

This is really cool! What I'm wondering is how well the "compiling Python code to a highly optimized Dart code" step works. For instance, does the standard Python test suite mostly pass? I imagine this is a monumentous task, and so a bit more detail on the status of the effort would be helpful!

One bit of feedback: the text under the item descriptions is such a light gray that, on my monitor (MacBook) it can't be read at all.

If you didn't know much about this (I didn't), here's a cool animation of the expected launch and re-entry procedure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NSFZAKd-nk

Perhaps it's just my connection, but this link loaded the PDF for me: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf

Does anyone know how this compares to `htop`, which is also quite excellent? It sounds like `atop`'s primary advantage is that it records process information in-between screen refreshes?

Cool stuff, either way!