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Then There is the story of the Emperor's new clothes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

Sometime older works or those in exit interview, just don't GAF and call "group think" what it is.

You want to fix these problems. Don't hose your monkeys and hire some old deep thinkers and empower them.
This is correct. Baidu was already well entrenched long before Google left.
For one this is old hat, from way back.
And you're right that you have no idea, because since then thousands of folks have cut their OS teeth on Linux kernel development. (I'm one of them).
There's a decent chunk of devs who look up to Linus for his seemingly cut-throat opinions because they understand that behind the cold attitude is someone who really cares a lot about a system that is being used by millions (billions?) of people.. it's pointless to indulge devs who can't handle their own emotions at the expense of the system.
So Fred should hide because some powerful entity could draw invalid conclusions about him?

Who let this powerful entity exist in the first place?
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As a user, I appreciate his attitude. It's not a coincidence that two of the most successful companies in the tech sector -- Apple and Microsoft -- had outspoken founding figures who weren't afraid to condemn bad ideas and sloppy work in plain language.

It's a matter of opinion whether their products have suffered, now that neither company has a Steve or a Bill or a Linus running the show. My opinion is that they have.
The worst offenders, in my opinion are operating systems. Every time I start my computer I get an annoying prompt to sign into iCloud, which will reappear immediately on cancel, so I end up having to close it about five times. Apple is trying to browbeat me into using their service by being as annoying as possible. At this point, even if iCloud was great I wouldn't use it on principal.

Microsoft is even worse, not only do they have their own annoying cloud "features" they opt you into, now they've decided to administer your computer for you from afar. I had to wait an hour yesterday for Windows to install a giant update that requires multiple reboots because they tried to install it overnight. Worse, it was applying it at the boot screen, so I couldn't even pause it or read the web while I waited. If Microsoft can just put my laptop out of commission for hours on a whim, with no warning, I can't trust their os for anything important. I'm not a Linux fanboy in the least, but since both major os's make me feel like I'm just renting my own computer I might make the switch.
Right, but you have to remember that the people running these institutions are routine subjecting their inhabitants (a fair portion of whom are innocent and/or unfairly convicted) to all kinds of unpleasant things they'd prefer not to "receive", to wit: rape (via silent acquiescence), beatings, gratuitous solitary confinement, intentionally inadequate food provisions, routine humiliation, etc.

So in cases like these, a bit if turnabout is more than fair play.
The HN discussion of the original article being referred to by this one can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803680
"Can someone describe a real life production scenario in which this flaky behavior is desirable?"

I think so? My company develops a processor that is meant to be compatible with processors from other vendors. To try to ensure compatibility, we have a test suite that compares our "golden model" of intended behavior against the observed behavior of competitors' chips.

We sometimes have run into cases where a competitor's product "randomly" gets wrong results, but when we run the instruction again, it gets the right answer. This happens frequently enough that we've arranged the test suite to automatically try again to see if a failure is reproducible before bothering a human with it.
Google is based on the internet which came out of DOD research
I hope not!
Should there be a public arrest report giving a reason for the arrest too?
(Thanks, I know.)
It's possible that it might be appropriate for the leader of the Linux kernel but for other programmers and leaders - don't model your own behaviour after this. You're not Linus. You're not Steve Jobs either - also known for his abrasive style.

Firm but fair kindness, diplomacy and a lead-by-example approach are the keys to leading a technical development effort over the long term. Do make tough decisions, do hold people to account, do work hard, do expect the best from other people, do get rid of problem team members and do address under-performers, but all that can still be done with patience, kindness and diplomacy.

I made the mistake in my early career years of modelling my leadership style on Bill Gates also known for the same abrasive, no holds barred style. It doesn't work.
You can't just diagnose a head injury like that. There is a simpler explanation, and unfortunately possibly more probable, as to why the tweets were written like that. I don't know why you would jump to "this is murder," we don't even know if there was even really anyone else involved. I mean come on, I understand it is very tragic and sad but not everything is a grand conspiracy.
From Jay-Z..."Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first"
I suspect a hapless patent troll would get far more than he bargained for after sending his C&D to these fellows.
If you want freedom and manners, don't follow Linus.
Yes, I should have said 'inquests can give people another avenue in some cases'. And I should also have pointed out that the process can sometimes be very complex and take decades [1].

I wasn't trying to claim any kind of superiority for the system as operated in England/Wales. I was wondering aloud about what is supposed to happen in US/relevant state, so that I can track subsequent news, and I have the answer now from user lstyls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence

In the case you cite, it is worth noting that the Hutton Inquiry replaced an inquest, which is very unusual.
What the thought experiment tries to get at is that it is hard to predict how a super intelligence will evolve from a set of simple objectives.

No, it's pretty easy. I predict a super intelligence wouldn't evolve at all from a set of simple objectives.

(that may seem a little snarky but the original question has the implied assumption that super inteilligence could evolve from only a set of simple objectives and I think that assumption is implausible, is only accepted because it's made implicitly, etc)

But I guess that's a fundamental disagreement. I think it's relatively "obvious" that creating an intelligent system would involve the intentional crafting as well as inputs of particular immediate goals. If intelligence could from just whatever system gets complex and has feedback loops, then I'd agree we're in trouble and need to go around smash all the high-end thermostats in a fashion akin to a b-grade horror movie. But clearly I think that's a dubious "if".
He sounded extremely angry, but unhinged isn't the word I'd use. If what he said was true, he had every right to be extremely angry.
Yes these days legally they are citizens not subjects, but because of history, the connotation of the relationship with the state is one of a subject.

Whereas from the outset there was a concept of citizens in the U.S. under the written constitutions (both of them).
UPDATE 2: GOT IT BACK, Thank you guardian angles of HN if thats you :P

UPDATE: I uploaded a screenshot of the support conversation. I obfuscated any info that would identify me. http://imgur.com/JB4XX4s (if you're wondering - the discrepancy in my name I'm talking about in the last message is merely a matter of an acute over one letter.)

@Nadya Yea, I've considered that. But I'm not sure if trading personal privacy for getting that account is a good deal. And it seems like there's been countless huge stories about people in the drag community.
I just sent an email to one of the main people that were involved in these. The word on the interwebs is they have some special contact at FB. And I really hope I can handle it that way. Trying to find more potentially-helpful people.
I'm not a kernel developer but his rant strikes me as very platonic, and not in a good way. Platonic in the sense that real knowledge requires turning away from the cosmos and "deeply introspecting" to obtain a "gnosis" of sorts. Plato, for all his contributions, was at heart a religious ideologue closely aligned with the corruption of the Pythagoreans that came before him. Reality was "the cave" and the gnosis was leaving the cave.

Full disclosure: I don't use debuggers myself, partly because it isn't practical (I spend most of my time in Go these days, rather unwillingly I might add, and Clojure. Both languages aren't terribly friendly to step-debugging.) but when I need one I really, really need one.
While I'd much rather deal with the Met than any US police force, they're hardly universally loved - e.g. the riots after the death of Mark Duggan.

It helps that they're mostly not armed, apart from all the guys standing around with MP5s defending public spaces from terrorists.
THIS

For an opposing example, look at the world of JavaScript.
I don't think it's necessarily actually Roman numerals, but perhaps "mille", which means thousand. So thousand thousand means million.
I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, but it is mostly PC-like architecture with mostly FreeBSD running on it, right? Nothing really interesting, unlike it was with Cell processor.

They are not even subsidizing the hardware anymore, as I understand it, they sell it for about the same it costs to produce.
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Cool. What would you suggest in order to develop empathy?
Maybe if we wait another 10 years we'll get access to some more books. It's a shame that I didn't get a chance to download any of the books but then again I already have a backlog of other books to read so it's no great tragedy to me.
And yet, and yet- his contribution to open source is almost unfathomable.
This seems like one of those false "tyranny of the OR" logic bombs: we can have 1) high quality software OR 2) a kernel debugger.

It seems to me that these two things are not actually logically connected and we can have both: underthought code is a unrelated problem to a debugger.

Its like saying you can't build world class woodwork if you have a router. Instead you must only have awls so you have plenty of time to think about it.

It strikes me that simply means there will be less software in the world at much higher dev cost and that isn't a good thing necessarily.
Yes, this. The culture of software development was different back then. My opinion of this little snippet changed a lot when I saw the date.
This assumes that the Universe contains God. Most understandings of a divine creator place him outside the bounds of the physical universe, and therefore immune to your argument. Unless you're referring to a specific idea of "God" that does include him/her/it as a part of the universe.
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It's not plain language. It's specifically anti-productive language. He's no better than people who are overly officious in their speech, as his diatribes serve just as much to get in the way of his point and muddy understanding as what he believes he's avoiding by cursing at people.

If he were to actually speak plainly, 50% of his email would disappear as overly repetitious.
That seems like a pretty short time period to claim "robustness", especially with the quantitative trends the entire time. Remote communication was not so heavily relied upon in the past, whereas now it is a staple of modern life. Furthermore, the scale and inhumanity of the system has increased geometrically, no longer limited by actions of individual agents to perform taps/investigations, but instead a court order (in name only) for an ongoing wireline/database dump of millions of people who are then all investigated statistically.

FWIW, your statement could be made even stronger by saying that never before in history has it been possible for individuals to securely communicate over long distances. But technology adoption does not respect a fundamentalist approach - talking in an isolated house with no electronics was a lot more relevant a hundred years ago than today! So we need to judge the autonomy of an individual carrying out his usual day-to-day tasks in both time frames.
What I don't get is why he chose to live in Portland. People here are... not really like that at all. It must drive him nuts.
Do you mean using postgres tablespaces backed by memory or do you mean using a FDW?

If you do mean using a ramdisk tablespace, the postgres docs recommend not doing that. However, if you really want to do that, make sure you attach xlog (the WAL table) to that ramdisk tablespace as well, otherwise every transaction will still hit the disk.
This.So this. Those of us who knew Ian and cared about him have our own responsibility to know what happened.
Uber reach 1B trips
My best guess would be a botched/inadvertent rollback of the content DB in response to incoming traffic. (It's back up now.)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813830 and marked it off-topic.
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The date of this post matters a lot. He said this in 2000. He's softened up a bit since then.
This is a pretty solid public postmortem. Props to Valve. Usually when something bad happens in the gaming realm, it just gets swept under the rug.
Would privacy protect a black in 1930's Poland? Would it matter to them if they did or did not register their identity or religion with their government of full religious freedom? Where's their right to privacy (of their ethnicity)?

The only insurance against unrestrained power for anyone's future is restraining the power, not privacy. Privacy is what you resort to when all else fails, which even then is clearly not enough for everyone.
It's entertaining to see people rhetorically pat Linus Torvalds on the head. Yes, he is clearly an imbecile in thrall to myths. Sheesh.
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Wasn't there a patent on the message passing part of the QnX kernel?
Low quality, ad-infested and speculative rubbish. Skip.
What the fuck? Everybody here is praising Linus for some of the most perverse and regressive logic imaginable because they enjoy his supposed bravado.

What nonsense. You can apply his exact same logic about kernel debuggers to reject all advances in software made after 1968. If only all programmers used nothing but DOS and ASM on 4-bit CPUs, we would finally be liberated. Finally let "Darwinism in software development" take its course.

(Of course, I'm sure most people commenting here have never hacked on anything more sophisticated than a V7 Unix derivative.)
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starting a new gig generally involves not getting paid for nearly a month.

//or so i'm told
"We can make an AI with desires. For example, we can give it a reward every time you push a button."

I wouldn't call that a "desire" in the fashion we've discussed it. I guess it comes down to fundamental disagreement over how GAIs could be created. I think it's obvious that the creation of a GAI would require a very careful engineering of "understanding" in a broad sense - "knowing what people mean" "caring about X" etc. in order to occur at all.

If just complexity and rewards are enough to create a thing that intentionally increases resources and makes longer term plans, then it seems like we are indeed in trouble. But I think that's implausible.
It's specifically anti-productive language.

History suggests otherwise.
Don't forget how Reddit smeared a dead man after Boston.

There's a difference between fighting injustice and speculating based on thin evidence. I want to hear something from witnesses, family members or friends who talked to him in his final days before I start having "theories".
It was never anything but a gimmick. That's the point! Anonymous began as a joke on 4chan, pretending that all anonymous users were actually the same person and then laughing as Anonymous argued with itself. The joke has exploded beyond anyone's dreams; Anonymous has successfully convinced millions of people that it really is, or was, a well-defined entity. But the only requirement for joining Anonymous is to say "I'm Anonymous." That's why it's called Anonymous, y'know?
This would be great if it were implemented as a "go generate" compatible script or executable. [1]

[1] https://blog.golang.org/generate
why they have so much more gas that they have to store in old oil fields?
Yeah, you get to act like this when you're a popular iconoclast, having surrounded yourself with sycophants. Everyone else in normal scenarios cannot afford to do this.
This thread could be useful even if the Springer action was a mistake (or whatever) and the free books download facility has been withdrawn - because many people have mentioned book titles that they like. I, for one, was not aware of many of these titles, and my guess is that many others would be in the same position. So this thread is a useful resource. It would be great if readers who can, could vote this thread up for a day or two at least, so it stays visible until people get a bit of time to copy book titles to check out or buy later. Thanks.
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And the top-rated comment there, by jimrandomh, is still the first and last word on the matter as far as I'm concerned, even in light of the WashPo's editorializing:

"There are only two possible reasons for a police department to be using a test like that [with a known 70% false positive rate]. The first is ignorance, but of a degree and nature that is quite scandalous. The second is to commit fraud upon the courts, by claiming to have evidence of drug possession where no drugs exist. In light of the FBI hair test scandal (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...) I think the latter explanation is fairly likely."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10804016
Because the wrong people™ are losing money.
there's also a great story i heard about a queueing theory conference where a hundred or so academics turned up at once, and insisted on forming a single line at the hotel registration desk because that was the proper way to do it.
This helped me a bit because most of my clients are on vacation so I haven't received as many emails about sites being down/slow as I normally would've.
I'm sure it's more complicated than that. I doubt there was any real career ending situation that was about to occur due to police or anything else.
This is my favorite -- "! Applications development is a major PITA. Different distros can use a) different libraries versions b) different compiler flags c) different compilers. This leads to a number of problems raised to the third power. Packaging all dependent libraries is not a solution, because in this case your application may depend on older versions of libraries which contain serious remotely exploitable vulnerabilities."

Sometimes I explain it that Linux is roughly 65,000 different operating systems with the same name :-) It isn't as bad as that of course but the freedom to choose means that people do choose, and the challenges of selling your non-opensource software into that pool of choices is insurmountable to most companies.
I'm curious what is this history that kernel debuggers lead to the fall of OS projects. I presume Solaris/illumos are all masturbating monkeys?

(In fairness, you did prefix your statement with "As a user," so it's obvious you don't have to care about these things.)
like the time of the robber barons and telecom monopolies
Flagged not only are all of the comments in here from newbies created right after the message was posted, but it's a series of platitudes not fit for the HN crowd specifically.
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Is everything a slur to you people? For fuck's sake, get a life. You can't eliminate unpleasant things from the world by policing the words we use to talk about them.
Being smart enough not to mess with problem X of company Y doesn't mean I don't find it interesting to inquire about how problem X came along.
Why i have pretty much given up on burger chains.

Their places have X number of cash machines, yet only one of them is in use even though there is a massive queue.

And if you wander up to one of the unused ones you get yelled at...
Would we? Your statement implies that creating the kind of environment Linux is developed in somehow weeds out the bad developers while retaining the good ones. Yet, I am not aware of any data that would suggests a positive correlation between development abilities and resilience towards a hostile work environment. Therefore, we can assume that good contributors, too, will be put off, thereby making the project worse than it could be. The best example of this is Alan Cox who did a lot of good work before leaving the Kernel project. I don't think anyone would argue that his exit made the project stronger.
Some people like me don't mind working with Drill Sergeant Hartman. Even when we are on the receiving end. My firm beliefs are that stupid should be called out early and with force. If you can't take an ass chewing - you are not in the right place.
I didn't know the better the software, the more primitive the development tools.
One of the insidious things about debuggers is that they let you be lazy when reasoning about the code you've written. When you don't have a debugger, you need to be more careful about what you do and really understand the complexity of your code, because a misstep when writing the code can take hours to remedy. With a bunch of safety nets at hand, you feel like you can just blow out some code and work it out via the compiler and debugger later.

There's no doubt that better tools have let us be more productive, but in the process we understand the code we write less deeply than we otherwise would, because we are required to spend less time contemplating it.
There are two comments in the article, copy-pasted below which roughly summarize why this is a terrible idea.

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Gene Consbruck:

You had better not front-stab your boss.

Mike Tian:

"niceness", "politeness", or "etiquette" were invented to allow strangers to co-exist with less friction. They are a code of conduct to prevent violence when people lived in clans and tribes. It was a good invention.

Within a trusted circle, you can strip away some of these things and be "brutally honest", and not rupture your relationship.

But in a larger organization, where people are not necessarily your most trusted confidants, such a strategy is likely to massively backfire.

You cannot have "brutal honesty" (e.g. strip away all the social lubricants of politeness) without a deep and abiding trust. Doing so will result in warfare, either open or subtle.
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People have really only been doing JavaScript in earnest for the last 7 years. When you consider that, and how terrible the base language actually is, I think it's pretty amazing what people have done with it.