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I don't understand this comment - You don't have to be a charity to do charitable works, and an LLC can be a charity. Note that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Foundation (which is not all that different from an LLC without shareholders from a tax+reporting perspective), and does lots of charitable works.
Personifying inanimate objects is usually either a metaphor or signifies something unsettling. This article borders on the latter of those two.

Sorry, that was just the way I took it.

Between the passive aggressiveness

>Sam cuts me off. “Em,” she says, “can you control the volume? You’re very loud.”

>“I am?” I ask.

>“YES,” the entire bullpen yells.

And then the obsessive literalness of the personification of the ipad this was a weird read for me.
I've actually been building a teaching VM with these properties. You can't take the address of arbitrary values (so there's no distinction between lvalues and rvalues), there's no pointer arithmetic (instead you have type-safe primitives for record access and array indexing), all arrays (including strings) know their length and bounds-check accesses, and unions behave more like sum types, always knowing precisely what type they have stored. All these constraints ensure you can never convert a number to an address, or generate an address to an illegal value. More info about the goal and rationale: http://akkartik.name/post/mu; http://github.com/akkartik/mu.

I also recently found out about http://eigenstate.org/myrddin which seems more mature with very similar goals/aesthetics. I've been digging into it a fair bit.

Finally, on the extreme other end of the spectrum, there's Rust.
Most of the time we're iterating through a cyrus.index, where there's 104 bytes per record, and we're doing a CRC32 over 100 of them, or we're reading through a twoskip database where we're CRCing the header (24+bytes, average 32) and then doing a couple of mmap lookup and memcmp operations before jumping to the next header, which is normally only within a hundred bytes forwards on a bit and mostly sorted database. The mmap lookahead will also have been in that close-by range.

Also, our oldest CPU on production servers seems to be the E5520 right now, which has 128kb of L1 data cache.
I wonder how many wealthy people are reading all of this criticism of Zuckerberg and are thinking to themselves: "On second thought, I'll just buy another boat." Remember how cool it was when Larry Ellison spent $500 million on that Hawaii island?
I could see wanting to store the Account Key on one of these devices.

edit: Was mostly thinking about smartcards, etc. Honestly, since most of the crypto operations can be performed by OpenSSL, I guess the account key can already live on any device with PKCS11 support.
This pairs very well with Stephen Wolfram's recent piece on the true nature of space-time: a network

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664272

Published acoincidentally on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's original General Relativity Paper.
But nobody uses smallbasic, and millions of people use Python.

edit: I'm being hyperbolic here, but I think ubiquity is extremely important. You want people to be able to play.
Zuckerberg also failed in his $100 million effort to fix Newark's schools. It's funny, because people like Gates and Zuckerberg are pushing the idea of "accountability" - if teachers can't get scores to improve, we need to fire them. Yet when they fail completely to improve things, the notion of accountability suddenly disappears, end the long list of excuses comes out.
That's exactly why we designed the client that way - we wanted to make it easier for people who have no idea how to add certs to encrypt their server.
I haven't seen any, but hypothetically speaking, those wouldn't be called for either.
Well, implicit in this discussion is also the notion that tax revenue is always a good thing. I think both assumptions are poor, but I'd sure take charity over tax revenue any day of the week.
The same is true if he donates the shares directly without going through an LLC.
As someone who is deaf, I recently went from hearing aids to a single cochlear implant and it was really uncomfortable for a while for a weird reason: one that this article bought up. I've spent most of my life with hearing aid moulds in my ears and when I got the CI I always thought insects were gonna have a field day inside my ears.

My heart raced when I read ant eggs were used. Horrifying.
I don't think this kind of decision was ever made public, was it?

Not that I'm aware of. I follow the misc, tech, and libressl mailing lists and there seems to be a lot of OpenBSD related stuff missing from there. I think the cabal uses other, more private, more informal, means of communication for a lot of their discussions and decisions.

selecting old versions of specific files

But did they really select an old version? Rather, perhaps they just declined to pull the changes that the OpenSSL people made.
Webserver config modification has indeed taken an immense amount of programmer effort. It's actually pretty magical when it works well, and it's suprisingly robust, but it's still filled with horrible edge cases everywhere.
Yes you have to install an app (soon to come is email fallback if you don't have the app, and Chrome push notifications on Android, which don't require an app downloaded).

While I hadn't heard of it until you mentioned it, the main difference between this and Pushover seems to be that 1) Pushover seems to have more features and available platforms, and 2) Pushover costs money while this is free & opensource.
Whoops, somehow IRC is kill.
Someday his children will read this, along with his "letter". announcing the LLC.

They "trust me"

How can anyone claim that it would be common and understandable for anyone of his age at the time, attending Harvard, to accept all this personal information and then say such a thing?

"...so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard".

That sounds just a tad anti-social for the founder of a "social network".

And then, of the students who would say something like this upon receiving people's personal life information, how many would you trust later as adults _with all your personal information_? Too late. Already done.

Apparently wealth changes everything. Zuckerberg is now transformed. Trustworthy and benevolent. Or it does not matter; it is irrelevant. Or it matters, but what can we do; what choice do we have?

Maybe believing one of the above makes all those who submit their personal information through his website a little more comfortable.

Cognitive dissonance.
To handle loops I believe most implementations have a "restart on complete" flag on trees or nodes. So if the first node was a sequence node you could set it to start back at the first node after the last is done.

There's a second post that may answer some of your other questions. "Advanced Behavior Tree Structures" https://gamedevdaily.io/advanced-behavior-tree-structures-4b...

Unity has a decent behavior tree plugin called Behavior Designer. I've only used it a tiny bit so I'm still getting a grasp on what it does and does not handle well. Poking at it, or simply it's documentation, may also help. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/15277 http://www.opsive.com/assets/BehaviorDesigner/
To be competitive on the international scene they have some huge obstacles to overcome.

The electronics manufacturing boom that happened after WWII wasn't spontaneous. It happened due to a strategic partnership with the US and Japan. Many Japanese were sent to US universities to be educated on Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science. In addition, Japan received a significant amount of funding from the US to bootstrap their developing economy which later grew into a manufacturing powerhouse.

Currently. Japan is a developed nation at a peak of its manufacturing capacity with a decreasing working population and increasing non-working population.

Aside from Macro Economic constraints, there are some very real cultural barriers hurting their competitive standing on the international stage.

First, even with a population boom the only way to sustain current production capacity is to open the borders to immigration. People outside Japan are very interested in moving their to work/live but widespread xenophobia is still a very real problem.

Second, the public perception that the Japanese work ethic is poisoned by too much emphasis on perception over production.

I can't speak on the reality of living/working in Japan because I've never been there but I have seen numerous videos and posts lately by western tech workers who have. The popular consensus seems to be, "Japan is an amazing place to be but I'd never stay there long-term."

From what I can tell, the culture encourages people to work extremely long hours at a great personal expense whether or not that time is productive. Time is filled with 'busy work' that's neither essential nor intellectually satisfying. To spend less time at work than your boss is considered shameful to the point that those who don't conform will be stigmatized for unsatisfactory performance. 10-12 hour days and/or being required to join the boss/coworkers after work for drinks are the norm, not the exception. Unsat performance reviews make it impossible to move up the latter and/or get hired at another company so there's no choice but to conform.

Either one of these issues will deter any sane high-skilled worker from immigrating to Japan. Both are beyond recourse.

Silicon Valley (and the US tech centers in general) have a huge advantage in that they attract top talent from around the world. Not only is acquiring the top talent important for success but bringing people from diverse backgrounds encourages the cross-pollination of ideas.

I'm not saying these guys won't be successful. The Japanese are intelligent and hard working people. I'm saying that even at your best, a Japanese AI startup will consist of a less talented, less dynamic, monoculture. Compared to Silicon Valley which is a cultural, intellectual, and socioeconomic powerhouse.
Sorry, on-site. You'll like working with us.
You never end up with a net plus by giving to charity; you are always giving away money. This is because the amount of tax you avoid is always less than what you gift. For example, you may gift $100, which ends up reducing your tax bill by, say, $30. If charitable gifts weren't tax-deductible the equivalent would have been paying $30 in taxes and having $70 left over to give to charity (for same $100 loss). The tax-advantaged status gives charitable gifts an extra bang-for-your-buck by giving you same net result (total outgo of $100) while allowing you to direct all $100 to the charity of your choice.

Also, notice that you're not somehow "getting something back" from other taxpayers in this scenario. You're just lowering your tax bill.
Um those expenditures are absolutely tiny compared to the total of government spending.
Better is very subjective.

They both solve a lot of the same problems, but lots of people will go for Kotlin just for static typing.
The Death Clock – Check how long you will live
f = open("mainfile")
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Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j
Not quite jury duty but this story did strike a chord.

I'm someone who strongly believes, in theory anyway, in the presumption of innocence and that everyone is entitled to a strong defense. A prosecutor should have to earn a conviction. However I also feel strongly that perpetrators of some crimes, upon conviction, should face harsh punishments.

Earlier this week, we got a message from a defense attorney inquiring about our services to assist with a criminal case. There were no other details left, so we googled the attorney and found that this attorney is involved in a very high-profile criminal case defending someone accused of an extremely heinous crime. It's a Law and Order-type crime, and it happens to be in one of the category crimes that I find to be particularly egregious.

I'm torn. The part of me that believes in the right to a strong defense wants to assist, not necessarily because I support the defendant, but because the prosecutor shouldn't be a rubber stamp. The other part is wondering what happens if I help defendant get off and he hurts someone else.

We left a message with the attorney asking for more detail and haven't heard back. It may be that the attorney found someone else, decided our field won't help, or maybe just can't afford us. But if we do hear back, if we are able to assist, and if the attorney does want to retain us, I don't know how we'll respond.

I hope I have the courage to say yes. But I don't know that I do.

(throwaway account to mask my normal HN identity).
I'd say that all of his actions since that date have been coherent; that at every turn he has dedicated a lot of energy to destroying privacy and reframing that as promoting openness.

The prototypical example of this is the FB privacy panel which, last I checked, took more than 100 separate actions to set everything private. (making it very hard and confusing to get privacy). And there's been the incidents where FB then single-handedly undid some or all of those settings without notice.

And then there's FB's participation in PRISM starting in 2009.

he's dedicated enormous energy into destroying privacy and into selling us to others.

As such... I tend to think he'd used more nuanced language now, but I absolutely believe he is a sociopath who has created a cancerous company that makes the world a materially worse place. I absolutely believe that all of his company's actions are aligned with his 18 year old's disrespect for other people.

Some part of him is obviously a good dude... but his company is a fucking travesty.
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There are hash functions that are as fast or faster than FNV and stastically stronger (and faster) than xxhash. There are multiple hash function families that should be used before either of the above in modern applications unless you need backward compatibility (like the CRC case in the article). This is an active research area and both of the above, while adequate for many casual use cases, should not be used for checksums for the same reason CRC32 should not be used for checksums in large systems.

As an example from one of my hash function research projects, MetroHash64 will outperform xxhash both for speed and stastical robustness (which is quasi-cryptographic). If you only need 32 bits, truncate larger hashes; if they have very strong stastical properties, that works well.

Lots of people working on this stuff.
Why should Joe Schmoe earning an honest $75K/year have less say than that though?
Why is that passive aggressive? Because she asks "I am?" instead of just adjusting the volume?
"What they do with that money is up to them, not the state. "

That's how property works, you know.

Hopefully this represents a step away from compulsory taxation as a society.
Please do write it up as I would certainly be interested in reading it.
It's convinced me that any public interest work like this should be done, if not covertly, at least out of the spotlight.

The shitty thing about this is that when Bill Gates (or presumably in the future, Mark Zuckerberg) donates money and interest to a cause, it has value beyond the cash itself.
Loyalty. Wasn't he a key player in screwing over Paul Allen?
How many votes do you get toward Zuckerberg's spending?
No one's saying he can't get profit and put it back into the system, as long as you _pay your taxes_. But if you're not paying your taxes, and you're resorting to the private sector, then you're really just squirreling away your wealth to do what you see is fit. We've seen how that works in 501c4s, with dark money and PACs. We've seen how that worked with Carnegie-style redistribution at the expense of working class labor. And we don't want to see that anymore. If you're going to invest the fruit of your success into a next idea, thats fine, but don't forget that real people, the public, made you that wealthy, and give back to them, the way they want it.
> Why so expensive?

GoDaddy. God, it's inexpressible how much I hate them.
I'm working on combining a real-time collaborative note taking app with chat.

it is written in angular2 and typescript. A private beta has been running for a while.

Right now I am focusing on launching a real-time collaborative ipython notebook client that can connect to your own jupyter servers.
<em>And as a bonus, these are people with demonstrated success in their ventures...</em>

And no experience in medicine, famine relief, climate science or any of a hundred other areas.

And let's remember that plenty of billionaires are climate change deniers, sitting at the center of dysfunctional corporate hierarchies full of infighting, posturing, and suspect expense accounts.
Thats based on the false assumption that money comes from nothing and that we live in this perfect system where we deserve the money we earn and those that don't earn it don't deserve it.

Mark, for example, was born, lived, grew up, went to school, started a business, etc, etc in the US and benefited from all of the things the US offers. You owe a lot to your government, and subsequently the 'tax payers', than you statement seems to suggest. Also the idea that Mark deserves all of his money because he earned it is also false. There are millions of people that have worked harder to succeed in life than Mark. Mark just got lucky. I don't mean to diminish his accomplishments, but luck plays a large role with any individuals success. That is one of the founding reasons for proper wealth redistribution.
no, next question.
Eh, it works and we care way more about that.

Anyhow, we can always switch the Sphinx theme, and your comment sounds more like a complaint about Sphinx in general (which I don't happen to agree with, but whatever).
> People get receipts for charitable contributions precisely so they can deduct those amounts from their taxable income.

I don't understand how this is considered tax avoidance? It's not like you get more money this way, you just get to give slightly more to charity than you might otherwise, which is the point of the deduction.
Why care at all until the results are in? All speculation is entirely baseless, and all moralizing is basically useless.
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted for this.

A lot is an interesting question, especially given this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...) which if you sort by percentage of GDP puts the US below Russia.

Is it that surprising that the country with far and away the highest GDP has the highest military spending in real dollars?
How Technology Killed the Future
the reason you have no right to say this is that most FB communication and interaction simply wouldn't have happened off of facebook. That's how great it is. People keep in touch with friends, acquaintances turn into friends, who never would have. So I have very little sympathy for your point of view, since the benefits outweigh the fact that all this is (probably) surveilled.

It's not overt either. FB doesn't butt into your social life, you can say whatever you want to each other. you don't have to feel like someone is watching. Do you feel like you're in NK when you're on FB? I sure don't.
The easy fix would be to strip the charities of their tax-free status. That does have some unintended consequences though.
Thank you China, at least jazz is growing somewhere for... "Jazz Has Become The Least-Popular Genre In The U.S."

"...In 2011, a total of 11 million jazz albums (CD, cassette, vinyl, & digital) were sold, according to BusinessWeek. This represents 2.8% of all music sold in that year. However, just a year later, in 2012, that percentage fell to 2.2%. It rose slightly to 2.3% in 2013 before falling once again to just 2% in 2014.

That 2% represents just 5.2 million albums sold by all jazz artists in 2014. In comparison, the best-selling artist of 2014, Taylor Swift, sold 3.7 million copies of her latest album ‘1989’ in the last 2 months of 2014 alone. ..."

http://thejazzline.com/news/2015/03/jazz-least-popular-music...
The entire bullpen yelling YES as if an loud ipad is disturbing their sanity.

You know what though? I'm just expressing how the article made me feel. As a reader that's my right. You obviously don't agree with me so let's leave it at that.
The NSA has apparently been pulping its paper waste for a while: https://www.nsa.gov/about/commitment/nsa_goes_green/nsa_recy...
Satya wants to woo windows developers by letting them write one code base that runs on multiple platforms.

Ballmers prefers Windows phones that run Android Apps.

I wonder which is a better strategy.
The billion-dollar success of L.A.’s quietest tech star: Belkin
The tax treatment of a charitable foundation (as opposed to an LLC) is very different.
when FB runs an elaborate campaign to make plebs believe their dear leader is investing his fortune into a charity, when in reality he's invested it into a Delaware based LLC that allows him to avoid Estate taxes....then you start questioning the intent of FB.

It's not "philanthropic purpose" it's an investment vehicle that can be used to do virtually everyone, without scrutiny.
And what if you don't help, and the defendant is innocent but goes to jail for a heinous crime they did not commit? Does that possibility hold less weight with you?

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> not necessarily because I support the defendant

Suppose the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Now that they're innocent, would you like to support them?
Honest question: do you think the world would be better off if 100% of the budget of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation went straight to the US Federal Government instead?

Sure, Bill Gates didn't start off with that experience. But from what I have seen of the foundation, I believe they are more effective in bettering the world, dollar for dollar, than the US Government.
you hope?
Well as long as he doesn't use half of it to start a bunch of wars in the middle east, we'll probably end up ahead of what would have happened if it would have gone to taxes. As you said, if Gates' leadership is followed, I think we'll end up wayyyy ahead of what would happen if it goes to taxes (especially if you consider that ironically enough many of the people that actually need the help might get it - like poor in other countries benefiting from malaria cures, vs whatever domestic interests would do with the money here)
Universal ES2015 / Gulp boilerplate
Microsoft Facial Recognition Project Allows Computers to 'See' Your Mood
> create something worth $300B out of nothing

Out of nothing? Would Zuckerburg been able to create Facebook if he was born and raised to subsistence farmers in Afghanistan, and lived his adult life in Sheberghan?

The fact is, people living in advanced nations have had huge investments made in them by their communities/nations in the form of clean water, schools, roads, rule of law and a thousand other things. Citizen's are morally obligated to pay a fair amount of tax, and because Zuckerburg has been widely successful, he should contribute much more that the average joe, even if he doesn't consume enough for it to be "fair".
> but I don't see how the LE guys would be annoyed about thousands of requests for TLS certs from a single user. The system is automated, after all. :)

We have to actually run a complicated server that does things with an external Hardware Security Module. CPU time, disk space, and bandwidth all cost money, and there's a finite amount of money we can spend on resources :)

Thus, rate-limits. That also helps keeps latency low for most users, and prevents DDOSing.
Shit man, I just genuinely didn't understand. I haven't even read the article. I would probably call the yelling straightforward aggressiveness, but I'll agree that it's childish, overblown, and reactionary.