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> Employee: When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief

> CEO: "When I talk about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech, I'm talking about when you start saying 'someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone.'"

> CEO: So if and when we identify who this person is, if they are an employee, they will be fired. And regardless, either way, they are not welcome to continue to participate in the Mozilla project. It is not who we are.

Notice how he says when someone says "someone's kind doesn't belong here, and we'll all be happy when they're gone." is hate speech. Yet in the next sentence he says the very thing about the anonymous employee's kind. The only difference here is that she is a radical feminist, and the employee simply expressed his relief at her kind leaving, as she was a permanently offended well known bully of a supervisor and a source of stress for everyone under her.

It is funny how people are not allowed to openly have a negative opinion of another person if they are a "protected" class or just not a white male. When you stand up for the bully simply because they are feminist, you know something is wrong.

Either way this all left a bad taste in my mouth. I won't be supporting this organization any longer.
I don't see why structured settlements should be allowed to be sold off at all.

The whole point of choosing a structured settlement is to prevent the person from spending a one-time windfall. So why allow that arrangement to be undone after the fact?

When you retire, you cannot assign your Social Security payments to a company in return for a lump sum. Many pension plans also prohibit you from assigning your pension checks. As a society, we've decided that preventing retirees from becoming destitute is more important than allowing those retirees to access their benefit as a lump sum.

Why is it different for structured settlements?
No I am aware of the difference, just would love to hear how something like that was going to be managed.
It might be better to just take a break at a rest stop. A friend of mine was on a long distance ride across the U.S. and was killed doing this.
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Sorry I was unclear. I mean "own" as in how the rich own the politicians in the current system. In a libertarian society I have a hard time seeing this being anything but even less protective of people like those described in the article.
Everyone knew what the feedback from existing extension authors would be. Asking for "feedback" that you know you're going to ignore seems more disingenuous that just admitting that you have to make a decision they don't like.
I have two answers, the best one and the immediate one. The best course is to reach out to the authors and see if they will publish the LaTeX that it was used to produce that PDF (or, of course, see if LaTeX is epub aware or such).

The immediate answer to your question is that I only just now tried pdf2htmlEX (https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/) and was stunned how good it was. If you are on OSX, one can "brew install pdf2htmlex" your way to happiness. Don't get me wrong: exporting to HTML is a long way from "ebook-friendly" but I feel it is close to the spirit of your question.

Please report back if they authors do agree, as I'm sure you're not the only one interested.
Congratulations djrogers! By sucking at math you just cost yourself nearly 1.5 million dollars in retirement savings!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y3PFiRhnixOcqeVrxZ2j...

I think one of the kind men from Access Funding would like to buy you a steak dinner.
It seems like your getting this info from ARIN? Do you happen to have any restrictions on this API? Thanks!
When someone tells you that you're comparing apples and oranges, your conclusion is "ah, but you think apples are better". You could similarly argue for applying the same punishment to a man stealing bread to feed his family as to a Bernie Maddoff, on the principle that bakers deserve to get rich.

That said, yes, I think the health sector should be state-run and not operate with a profit motive, but whether or not you agree or with this idea doesn't change the fact that your comparison is flawed.
This is awesome!

But it's 400 pages and part II and III are not present :|

Also I find the structure kind of odd. I is symmetric, II asymmetric and III protocols. Where do you put lattices, ZKP, lattices, FHE...

Another thing that bugged me: in the Integrity chapter they talk about MAC. Whereas they should talk about hashes, MAC provide integrity + authentication.

This is a common misconception that integrity is enough to protect against a MITM, whereas no you also need authentication. I'm sure this could lead to people just using a hash to secure their data in transit.
I'm exaggerating a bit but mostly because my experience is that the kinds of questions that are asked on tests a lower levels of science education are things that you simply know at higher levels and not because you were tested on them but because you have to use them and apply them every day. Better to have courses that expect you to have read all of Molecular Biology of the Cell in advance and present material with that expectation. That way students can see the real applications of the knowledge that we build on and not just see it as some stupid thing to be memorized for the next certificate. I get no prize for knowing IUPAC nomenclature, but I couldn't even start to do my work without it. The expectation should be as such, you get a prize for thinking creatively about how one could answer questions or for coming up with answerable questions that haven't been asked before.

I actually think that formal courses are an excellent way to learn 'textbook' material, but they are far more useful when you know you are going to use that knowledge in the future. The question for me is whether, at the highest levels, we should be focusing our courses, and rewarding people for the equivalent of learning how to walk when we need them to fly.
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Yet here we are and they did.
Awarding an honorary degree is analogous to liking a status update on Facebook.
I'm guessing you didn't watch the video or read the article, they didn't do anything special, just drove super slow on a very straight road.
Structured settlements are not exclusively used for those reasons:

> Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to several rulings by the IRS, an increase in personal injury awards, and higher interest rates. The IRS rulings changed policies such that if certain requirements were met then claimants could have federal income tax waived. Higher interest rates result in lower present values, hence annuity premiums, for deferred payments versus a lump sum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_settlement

They are presumably easier for the person paying the settlement as well. They can pay it from their cash flow over time, instead of liquidating businesses for up front payments, etc.

It's possible that the article is drawing a false connection between the nature of the injury that the settlement is redressing, and structured settlements. It seems like people who are properly unable to care for themselves will require legal guardianship or conservatorship by another, and a trust set up on their behalf, etc. I don't get the impression that structured settlements alone are meant to deny the person who was awarded the settlement a right, so much as that they provide an advantage to one or both parties.
If you're hypermiling to save money, good on ya. If you're hypermiling to save the environment, I suspect you're fooling yourself. The extra gas burned by people rage-driving around you has got to easily outweigh your gains.
(See also, in part, my reply above to maxxxxx).

I guess the bulk of it it would be much the same as what we have now: courts, police, Government departments tasked with protecting the rights of the population.

There would be laws against murder, assault, rape, fraudulent advertising, running two-stroke cars[1], etc. etc.

The main change would be that whole classes of crimes (drug crimes, obscenity, blasphemy, private discrimination[2], etc.) would simply disappear. And - if this were the USA - a lot of powers currently improperly usurped by the Federal Government would be instead claimed by the States, assuming their constitutions allowed.

[1] In other words, collective problems justify collective legislation. If smoky two-stroke cars cause human harm by polluting the air, it may be reasonable to ban them by legislation.

[2] By law, the State would be prohibited from discriminating on the grounds of race, religion, sex, marital status, etc. But individuals would be free to discriminate in whatever rational or irrational manner they chose.
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yup it's a typo
Thank you for the reply on guidelines.
If I were to submit an article outlining the mismatch between startup employee interests in their equity vs. equity markets in general it could fly. Got it.
You're thinking about to simplistically. The point wasn't always to alter the message, but to embolden and radicalize the target groups.

A reasonable communist might appeal to the people, you discredit them by making them more extreme. When the FBI and NYPD infiltrated the antiwar movement in the 60s, in many cases the agents were agent provocateurs, ultra-extreme "members" of these groups encouraging violence or other behaviors not in the interest of the group. The idea was to undermine and anti-war movement and identify the leaders and undermine them.

(Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainesville_Eight "Bill Lemmer, the Southern regional assistant coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, revealed himself as an undercover FBI operative in May 1972. Bill Lemmer had been thrown out of a 'fast'/protest by DCVC(VVAW) on the Capitol steps in Washington D.C. in January 1972 after advocating for violent, destructive actions on the Washington Monument." )

If there is a covert presence on internet fora, it would probably be in a similar light -- build trust among potentially influential adversaries by emboldening them, then cutting them down by hook or crook. The ultimate coup is to actually co-opt the radical agenda.
I have no clue how you could have deduced any of this from what I wrote.
I would extend this to say that when you get down to the level of synapses you're now talking about memory and not CPU. (If you actually want to implement this) 100 trillion synapses is better mapped to 100TB of RAM.

It's also very important to remember how incredibly slow the human brain is. Were talking 100s of ms slow to go from sensory input to motor output. A single neuron might take between 1 and 10 ms to fire, and a single dendrite might take 1/10th that time, so at best your doing computation at 10khz. CPU has 5 orders of magnitude over biology.

The problem is we have only a vague idea of how the network is connected and don't really know the algorithm thats being implemented by that network. So we fall back on things like simulating ion channels which take way more compute resources than necessary. There is a lot of cargo culting going on right now, but of course it's also insanely exciting and fun to find out what does and doesn't work.
I recognize the tendency that you are referring to.

But in this case, it seems to me that race is more of a correlation than a causation. Yes, urban poverty is very entwined with blackness but, unlike things such as police brutality or criminal sentencing, it's not clear that a white person in the same position wouldn't be victimized in the same way.

I don't object to the inclusion of "Black" in the headline, but it did strike me as odd in the same way that an article I recently saw elsewhere did. The headline was something like "This female chemist... yada yada". The article itself was about her work and didn't particularly mention her gender or any of the inequities she may have encountered. It seemed odd not to just call her a chemist, since you wouldn't specify a 'male chemist' unless there was a reason.

In the greater cultural context it's clear why this extra information was included and it's interesting to think about what's implicitly being communicated. But since superfluously mentioning race or gender would be quite unacceptable in so many other contexts it's a little surprising to see it included in the headline.
For $5K, my wife and I recently did a 4-week road trip, a combination of staying in hotels, cabins, and camping. We visited:

- Spokane WA,
- Glacier National Park MT,
- Waterton National Park AB,
- Banff National Park AB,
- Jasper National Park AB,
- Kamloops BC,
- Vancouver BC

I will highly recommend trip to national parks in North America.

Last year, for about $15K, my wife and I travelled to Japan and India for 3 months. While 15-20K is plenty of money, 2-4 weeks is not enough to travel to lot of different places (multiple countries), may be enough for a decent size country. If you are into nature and hiking, I will suggest Peru.
Right, big deal. "Nyland and the charitable friend who drove with him had to cruise an excruciatingly slow 25 miles-per-hour at near zero elevation to pull off the feat." This is like those solar car events where people find some long, straight road and drive bicycle-like things with solar panels very slowly. With a good road and hard tires, it takes very little energy to go a long way, slowly.
Having persuaded my LEAF to a predicted 120 miles on a charge https://scontent-atl1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1... I can very much appreciate the accumulation of tricks, nuances, and talent needed to actually achieve such range. Kudos to them for actually driving that 450.

I'm afraid the EV market is going to collapse shortly before it can really take hold and eventually dominate. (Georgia just ended its massive tax credit for EVs, and the dealers are bailing out of the EV market with plans to ship all the used lease-returned vehicles overseas.) Great vehicles on the cusp of seriously viable battery range.
It can help tremendously to have an established style guide everyone follows strictly, which eliminates 99% of bikeshedding moments.
> An "honorary" degree cannot be compared to a degree won through sheer hard work and dexterity

I thought that was kinda the point of honorary degrees- a person accomplishes something in a particular field despite the lack of the formal education.
The mention that they plan to remove XUL usage within Firefox (which is a good idea) is interesting. That's an extra justification for the change of extensions approach (the one we knew before was e10s).

Looks like they realised that to keep moving forward, clean up technical debt and fix longstanding issues, they'd unfortunately break almost all extensions in the process. And if that's the case, they might as well switch to a better API while they're at it. It's painful, yes, but Firefox is still a slow, unstable and memory-guzzling behemoth, where all your extensions break on every update. This won't change if they stick with single-process, XUL, XPCOM and the existing extension model.

I am optimistic. I think Firefox can and will survive this. Look how well Apple's Mac OS to OS X transition went. Mozilla are willing to help people port extensions. And their timeline is probably unrealistic, but it can be pushed back. In two or three years, Firefox will be a world-class browser again, and we will look back at the panic we had now and laugh.
for that kind of pdf I'm sure it works fine, for more complex pdf I'm not sure...
Honorary degrees is a cheap way of increasing prestige by associating the university with someone who already has prestige.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

If you're tolerant of everything, including intolerance, you end up supporting intolerance.

Or, in short, it's perfectly fine to kick people out for being hateful. There's no inconsistency or hypocrisy in that position.
Can't you use the browser without supporting them? I don't like the hypocrisy either but I love the browser (mostly). I do wish the engineers got back into management positions instead of these clueless politicians.
<disclaimer>I'm a Mozilla employee, though I never worked directly with Christie</disclaimer>

I don't know where you got that "she was a well known bully of a supervisor and a source of stress for everyone under her" but that doesn't match anything I've heard about Christie. Look at this guy comment history on reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/user/aoiyama), and maybe you'll change your mind.
Sure, but to blame 'the market' for this is, as I've pointed out, equivalent to blaming 'the market' for someone getting mugged.

Just because an exchange took place doesn't mean the exchange took place in a market.
I'd like to translate and repost this article, but can't find a license. Can you grant me the permission?
I would prefer to travel solo-proper rather than use guided tours that provide the accommodation, company and excursions. I found that the day after day early starts, focus on consuming alcohol and being loud and having to be up for a party and all that not for me when I did that.

Having said that I found travelling alone to be quite lonely, even if I spoke to and socialized with people along the way. The best way (for me) would be to go with a friend or even better my family.

As for where to go. I would love to see more of Tasmania or NZ. Far northern or eastern Europe too. Get away from the cities and see the amazing scenery.
You sound like you have a solid background, I'm sure you could easily find a job that pays triple if not more than your current position (or do I just live in a bubble?)
There's a lot to be said for this, especially in biology, where there's so much we don't know, and textbooks don't make this clear.
Brain science is even worse. We still don't know how memories are stored, either the mechanism or the format.

Economics remains badly understood. The predictive power of economic models is low. Psychology and sociology are even worse.
It's is actually pretty easy. You just you use a life table. The entire actuarial field is built on this understanding this stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_present_value
"She remembered a nice, white man. He had called her one day on the telephone months after she’d squeaked through high school with a “one-point something” grade-point average."

#Nottheonion

If the users here on HN can't see that this article is heavily biased and racist, there's something wrong.

It's this sort of thing that leads me to believe that 'smart' people aren't all that smart and can easily be manipulated by the media and people that power-hungry politicians.

cough Global Warming cough

This article is trash and shouldn't even be here on HN.
In my current gig I was originally hired to help the developers improve their ability to write software using agile (specifically XP) techniques. Rather cautiously I put "Agile Coach" on my business card. I'm not one of those coaches who focusses on management interaction. I sit down with programmers and pair program with them. I help break down stories with program managers. I introduce techniques to people and sit with them while they are learning to use them. My main goal is not to introduce a system, but rather to work with people and wait for opportunities to show why one way of doing things will be more successful than another way. It's a bit like a sports coach who will watch you do something, then introduce corrections, but always showing you how that correction made things better.

For family reasons, I had had to move back to Japan from the UK and ended up working on contract for the same company. In the end, coaching from 9000 km away is pretty difficult. The communication bandwidth just isn't there. So now I primarily write code. My boss encourages me to continue "coaching" individual people, but I have to limit myself to one person at a time.

I don't view myself as a coach any more. In truth, I have very little influence over what generally happens across the team any more. I go months where I don't even speak to some people on the team. I suppose I am mentoring individual people and cranking out code, which is a contractor's job.

My role now is "contract programmer" I guess. I still pair program about 50% of the time (and with a 8/9 hour time difference, that's fairly tough on the sleep schedule... but it gives me plenty of time to ride my bike during the day ;-) )
Is this any worse than actual cheerleaders at a sporting event? I don't personally see it as any different.
Libelous? Ha! This is your ordinary hyperbolic run-of-the-mill free speech here. Sure it's insulting but it's not something that could be reasonably shown as libel or legally defamatory (as in false).

Here's what you call libelous written by Aoiyama:

"The rest of mozilla would disagree with you. Everyone hated her because she was an asshole Social Justice bully and frankly people are sick of her divisive stupidity."

"Frankly everyone was glad to see the back of Christie Koehler. She was batshit insane and permanently offended at everything. When she and the rest of her blue-haired nose-pierced asshole feminists are gone, the tech industry will breathe a sigh of relief."
Why do you think Stallman's honourary degree would be superfluous, because you like him?
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Then the VoIP providers are effectively the source of the calls. Go after them.

(I just solve this problem by never answering my phone unless it's a contact. Phone calls are rude anyways IMO, use async communication.)
I can assure you that not only is it legal, it's done quite often here in the states
You don't. Nobody stops you to use vim and fire
a clisp repl instead if you want.

Of course. And there could very well be a service that accepts handwritten source code via the post, transcribes it, executes it, and mails you the output.

In context, I'm responding to the following:

• the article's preference for beginner-friendly suggestions (e.g. don't overwhelm beginners with an abundance of choice)

• the specific text I quote in my original comment above, and

• the fact that Emacs+SLIME is the de facto standard answer to every Lisp beginner who asks for an IDE.
Engineers don't necessarily share your political leanings.
I really would like to see a set of laws and government regulations that libertarians would support. Has anybody ever created such a thing?

Not to my knowledge :) But that has more to do with a combination of factionalism, incorrect philosophy (e.g. religious 'Libertarians' who'd like to ban gay marriage), and utopianism.

Would there be regulations on cigarettes

Other than prohibitions on fraud ("cigarettes are healthy!") or selling to minors, no.

selling alcohol to 10 year olds

Yes.

lead paint

Depends. Perhaps there would be cases where lead paint would be okay; I don't know that much about it.

Who would prove the harm if there is no EPA? Who has the money to go against big corporations and their paid experts?

Lawyers working on behalf of those bringing class-action suits against the manufacturers.

And why do you presume there would be no EPA (or an equivalent)? (Some) environmental laws are valid. I'm not American, but I'm pretty sure the Constitution doesn't grant the Federal Government the power to create something like the EPA. But the States surely do have that power.

It took forever to get a shared understanding that smoking is really harmful.

Not at all. It took forever for the justice system to overcome the massive lobbying and corruption that was protecting the tobacco industry from lawsuits over their fraudulent advertising.