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Reminds me of peace-time ceo vs war-time ceo [0]

I'm no CEO, but that's some decent advice on the blog, I'd want the CEO of my employer to read it. A question beckons...where would the likes of Amazon/Uber be if they followed rules and regulation? Microsoft, famously trampled its way to success.

My hypothesis is that out of some hundereds of CEOs that do break the rules, only a handful get caught, so the incentive simply isn't there, compared to accelerate growth that could be had by bending the rules, as it were, and acquiring enough wealth or importance that then you can lobby your way through and change the rules to suit your business or motivies.

Ben Horowitz (ironically a partner at A16Z, that's a major investor in Zenefits) wrote: "Wartime CEO cares about a speck of dust on a gnat’s ass if it interferes with the prime directive." And I tend to agree with that, too. But I never managed a fruit-stand in my life, so what do I know?

It's tough being a CEO. You need a team to make your way through, I guess.

[0] http://www.bhorowitz.com/peacetime_ceo_wartime_ceo
I map Taboolah to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file.
Perhaps philosophy's problem here are that it doesn't present its case very well, and this article provides us with an example of that. Instead of explaining the relevance of philosophy, it picks apart Bill Nye's poor arguments. You don't have to be a philosopher to see that the existence of poor arguments against philosophy does not, in itself, establish the relevance of current academic philosophy.
I'm really glad you did. I thought that was the single most important paragraph in your essay. I'd love to read more of your thoughts on the topic of ethical decision making for private enterprises.
That article is way too long with barely a mention of what's actually pissing people off. Hard for me to get up in arms over this when you bury exactly what it is that's happening.

I've been through reorgs like this in two different research university IT groups. It's natural to evolve from the free-wheeling pre-IT-as-a-utility days to the current structures of today. There are huge liabilities that were just not important when the entire university didn't rely on IT for EVERYTHING. MIT has some cool stuff going on in IT, but you can't claw back the changes of time, especially with how IT has matured. If I was at MIT, I'd try to find that new field where I could make a mark rather than try to retain the spoils of the past.
The reason why unboxed arithmetic and inlined function calls matter is that they allow for data locality, i.e., better control over cache and memory access patterns.
Most precise comment in the entire thread. Thank you.
Scripta.io announces public beta
After three hours of jury deliberations, naps, and goldfish crackers, he was found to be a poopy-head.
Platform locked. Unable to use on BSD and Linux.
I like Google Contributor more: you as a visitor participate in the ad bidding and win the ad space if your bid wins. The website gets exactly what he would get from your visit as before.
The Steph Curry Fallacy
That's Firefox with GNU branding:

>GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser
No, they don't, because they're marketing their service to users under the false pretense that it's "free" thereby explicitly associating it with "costs zero money" while in reality it does cost money that they do charge, only someone else in some other way.

Consumers have the right and ability to completely destroy this business model and should exercise it, sooner the better. Most companies compete by stating prices on products, it's absurd that a select few get to state prices in long ToS and/or privacy policies that we know nobody reads.

It doesn't matter one bit if it's a mom-and-pop store or a tech giant that goes out of business because people are fed up with tracking, malware, and advertising.
True, this "ecosystem" is often overlooked.

The goal of the Frege developers is to achieve full Haskell 2010 compatibility by the end of this year. However, that still doesn't mean you can port all code easily.

What it does mean is that you can use your Haskell skills in projects that are for some reason restricted to the JVM.
Meanwhile, everyone who pays for cable TV is shown ads, even on the premium channels. And, everyone who buys a magazine is buying a periodical stuffed with ads.

If anyone here believes that by installing yet another ad blocker, regardless of who made it or where it's hosted, that it will somehow curtail online advertising or improve you online experience, as Mr. Rourke would say, "Welcome to Fantasy Island."
> it would be exponential in its self-improvement

Why do you think that is?
> The only right solution to this problem is that society begins to take better care of old people.

What about another issue of incurable, terminally ill patients who descend into a years-long hell of losing themselves to the pain, to the illness; who day by day see their brains becoming less and less capable? Are you sure we're even qualified to really "take care" of such people?

It's not about elderly; it's about suffering. If you can't cure or ease someone's pain, step aside. You're in no position to tell such person what to do because you failed them already. If a suffering person decides it's enough, you have no right to tell them - to make them! - to suffer anymore.

Assisted suicide is a way out of hell you can't picture fully without going there yourself. It's easy to say that "we need to take better care of someone", but this makes those who don't want to be taken care of left with nothing. And to repeat, there are people that we don't know how to help and the only thing we can offer them is to prolong their suffering.
Ageing: Restoration project
We Are Raising a Generation of False Entrepreneurs
Oh, so dying a slow, slightly less painful agonising death whilst being doped up all day is so much better?
I will definitely write on that in the future, already had a draft post at sometime but decided not to send it out because it did not feel complete. It's a tough subject, and an even tougher subject to put out there in a way that it is useful because if you let ethics be your main guiding light you might go under just as easily as if you were morally bankrupt and knowing how to find the balance is an extremely hard problem. For instance, last year I broke a couple of ethical rules to make sure that a company survived, I'm sure that did not make me any friends but I'm happy that I did. At the same time, if survival of that company (and by extension the people that get paid their salary every month by that corporation) had not been at stake I would have never done that. Deciding where and when ethics should take a front seat and when the situation dictates you need to purposefully cross a line is super tough. It's akin to the problem where you have to decide which of two groups of people you will rescue when you can rescue only one.

I really hope I will never fuck up in that respect because the way in which I go about these things there is no second guessing, once done it is done and if I break it I'll end up owning the pieces.
I recommend everyone who's visiting Tokyo to take a trip to Enoshima and use the Shonan Line to get there. Enoshima is a scenic tiny island and there's a long beach. Great in summer, when there are firework festivals.

Japan also has some great non-suspended monorails. For example the one in Kitakyushu (I love the station architecture) or the one in Naha, Okinawa.
And instead they spend them sixty years to prepare you to adulthood. And they didn't care that their children might grow up to be unworthy of such effort, like you are.
The immigration statute actually provides for appointed counsel so long as it can be had at no cost to the government.
using a content blocker improved my online experience the very first time I clicked on a youtube video
Students taking Smart Drugs to get Higher Grades
Some programming is higher skill than others. A lot of web development isn't that well paid because html hairdressing is easier than, say, working on c++ compilers, or realtime embedded physics/maths, or whatever.

I think you have an odd view of business if you think that the pay you'd get is dependent on its status. For one thing, how do you determine its status? Some comment on a blog doesn't really cut it (who cares?). (Likewise, I'm not sure what form "sticking up for your profession" takes. Writing a comment in response to the blog?). I understand all manner of illegal activities - drug dealing, for example - manage to make the perpetrators a lot of money. Perhaps they're counteracting the disdain many people feel for them by posting on blogs?

Pay comes from a reward for doing work for people who will then use your work to make them more money. I've recently done work for banks and newspapers and they've never specified which language to use and wouldn't pay any less if they discovered what language I used.
If you told people that there are a zillion shitty android apps written by newbie java developers who'd never programmed before and were written in a few days of their spare time i doubt many people would be surprised and it's clearly had no impact on the pay you'll receive as a competent java developer who keeps up with all the exciting frameworks.
There's a huge difference between "dark chocolate" and "purestrain sugar".
It seems like a lot of these problems could be solved by better enforcement of existing laws, rather than creation of new ones.

For instance, the article has a picture of trash piled up on the sidewalk in front of an AirBnB. Surely there are existing laws or regulations against this. People often mention noise from short-term rentals, there are regulations against this too. The benefits of better enforcement would extend beyond short-term rentals as well, and improve quality of life for all residents.

Other issues, like the "vomit covered floors", seem like strictly private issues to be handled between the host, guest, and possibly the mediation of the rental site.

I'm not saying that better enforcement should be the only solution (it can't deal with larger issues like elevated property prices), but it should certainly be a large part of it.
That's terrifying. How do you protect yourself from that? I'm not familiar enough with my bank's phone tree to distinguish the real one.
I jumped on the "get off Windows" bandwagon early after 4 months of Windows 7 by switching to Gentoo Linux and I have not looked back. At the time, I was upset with Microsoft for deciding to drop mainstream support for Windows Media Center 2005 Edition 4 months earlier than they promised by including it with the rest of Sindows XP.

Now I think that my computing experience is better. No more chkdsk on sudden power loss (ZFS is awesome), no more disk defragmentation, no more antivirus/antimalware scanners, no more hunting for updates, no more inordinate number of things starting at boot just because I installed them at some point and no more yearly reinstalls to purge cruft from the system's registry and filesystems. My experience is that my computer performance improves over time with an OSS OS installed, rather than degrading over time like it did with Windows. It is just so much nicer than what I experienced with Windows.
I will sugest an atomic commit, it the best way to track bugs in every commit
Facebook Scams? HiJacking Giftcards on Facebook? (RAYBAN, OAKLEY, APPLE)
Brilliant post, but gave me the shivers that he had to write some of that. If the desire (or concern) to write this is legitimate—and I can't find much of a reason it wouldn't be—then there are some scary folks running companies out there.
The argument that the content is rendered on your machine and therefore you should be able to control it as you see fit is fine, but I don't think it holds much ground practically speaking.

Netflix sends me highly compressed content that my computer must decode in order for me to watch it. I have though many times of applying a gamma curve to dark scenes or boost voice in some dialogs, but I never do it because it would be kind of hard and tools aren't readily available.

Ad blocking on the Web, on the other hand, is next to trivial, and that's why most people do it.
What kind of clothes do you use for rainy and cold/snowy weather conditions? Do you use different equipment (spikes) if it snows or there ice on the road?
People pay for content constantly: they go to the theater in droves, they buy books, they subscribe to Netflix, etc.

People don't pay for low-quality content, and don't pay when a free _and simpler_ alternative is available.
What is the total time of your commute i.e. house to starting work at your desk?

I found that when I had a 30 min cycle commute, the total time was more like 50 mins when I included shower time.
If you want to emulate this purely in software there are convolution reverbs[1] available for both Pure Data[2] and Csound[3] that you could probably re-purpose / script to do tens or hundreds of iterations on any input material you wanted.

Note: the linked examples are both based on "partitioned convolution" algorithms[4], which allow lower latency than standard convolution algorithms, and would probably be a better choice for running many iterations in a reasonable amount of time.

I may play around with this when I next have some spare time.

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

[2]: http://puredata.info/Members/bensaylor/partconv~-0.1.tar.gz/...

[3]: http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/pconvolve.html

[4]: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/system/files/attachments/main.pdf
> Also, I'm not aware of a case where a corporation used code signing to keep a legitimate developer/company out of a platform for non-malicious reasons.

See iOS and flux. GBA4iOS is in a similar boat, but they managed to get around it via a mechanism intended to allow enterprise side loading.
Why a new market crash will be profitable for the oligarchy
7 Ways to Sustain Top Performers in Your Business
Polygraph is, however, fraudulent pseudoscience. There are journals and conferences. The Homeland Security Administration funds universities to train people in this fraudulent practice. These people need to be called out as frauds, and it is an outrage to be openly training frauds in accredited universities.
Me as well, please :) Email is in my profile.
The kernel itself has stayed highly backwards-compatible. You can even load a module that lets you run a.out executables (the executable format Linux was using before ELF), assuming you have the libraries those executables need.
This medium (Internet over HTTP) is built in a way that I can choose how I render that information using the programs of my choice or the code that I write. Those who wish to prevent this can create a new medium, device, protocol, file format, or program, to push their advertising so that there is no choice.

The Internet is not a one-way broadcast nor is it newsprint. The browser is not a television. This medium is new and it is different and we shouldn't put up with having the old forms and methods being forced upon us.
I disagree, good software doesn't necessarily benefit everyone, and when it does, there are different degrees of benefit. I cannot benefit from software I can't look at or use.

It is definitely not irrelevant whether software is FOSS or not. It's the whole point of the GNU project, the FSF and of the Free and Open Source software movements. I'm not going to write a manifesto about the reasons here, but surely you must be aware a lot has been written about this in the last few decades that cannot be dismissed with a flippant "it's irrelevant".
It's as legitimate as it could ever be (in fact, it is still ongoing, think of this post as a way to get some of my frustration out of my system), the inside story however will likely never be told, definitely not by me. It's enough for me if some of the abstract lessons from this tragedy will help someone else at another place and time.
"Mr. Fart" is the best nickname for them yet, much better than that "Female Body Inspectors" one sees on t-shirts.
Locating the office in zone 1 also allows people to live in lots of outer London areas. If you site the office in zones 2/3, you have to choose which bit of zones 2/3, potentially meaning people have to move house or commute even further. It's a higher cost to the company, but gives them access to a larger proportion of the labour market.
I didn't think qube-os did this since I don't think this would be very secure. There are, from what I understand, many vectors for privilege escalation from the XServer. Didn't think Qube os would use it since it is security concerned.
"Hence the guerilla side also loses its victory condition. This is a scenario I'd actually like to see, since it might put an effective end to the kind of fighting we've seen in the middle east."

As a Finn, this is exactly the kind of stuff I don't want to see. Russia can win conventional war against Finland any day, if Finland would be absolutely certain to lose also the ensuing guerrilla war, we would lose our independence without fighting. Maybe not de jure independence, but practically yes.

Nukes are unusable as you said. This has not prevented conventional arms race and it's usage for proxy wars during cold war. It's unlikely it would do so in future. It might even make the whole situation worse, as now you can supply the "mujahideen" with so much more potent weapons. And you need less popular support to maintain similar levels of guerrilla activity.

Damn I hope I'm wrong on that. The possible counter could be autonomous aerial denial weapons. If they get better than autonomous assault weapons, we might actually see more peaceful world in the fashion of Kant(1). It might mean that Taleban might rule Afganistan again. But it would also mean that Russia can't wing Georgia, Egypt can't win Israel and Iran can't win Iraq. Westphalian utopia. :D

[1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm
It's really awkwardly worded essay, but the point is that if everybody defends and nobody attacks, we can get resilient world peace. With the downside of occasional minor conflict, but also with no "world government". If you start to think the election of president of world government, the whole idea seems pretty obviously oppressive and potentially very totalitarian.
Tech industry, regulators' relationship needs a reboot
No comments about the millions of jobs this technology will destroy in the near future?
If so, then why do we use Guantanamo Bay to house people we don't want to have constitutional rights?
That was made by Luke-jr one of the more influential and out spoken developers who is strongly opposed to a block size increase. He's also associated with Blockstream.
What is your website? Did you completely remove ads from it in favor of webpass.io?
I also don't own a TV, not because of the ads, but because the content and consumption model sucks.
> This advice is akin to "don't do drugs." The devil is in the details. And the details aren't always black and white.

If the details were black and white you wouldn't need a CEO, you could build a machine to do the job, but actually you can get a black and white version: Pick a wide enough safety margin between the black parts and the white parts. Now, if you make it too wide your profit will suffer. If you make it too small you run risk of going from white to black. And somewhere between those two extremes is the correct course of action to take, depending on your personal risk profile (really white? Maybe a bit gray? dark gray?), your knowledge of the situation (I KNOW that this is white vs. yeah, probably okay) and so on.
One of the weaknesses of Clojure on the JVM is its ridiculously long startup time. How fast does Frege start up on the JVM?
Just to point the elephant in the room and place the correct problem there for discussion:

* Autonomous weapons subvert the basis of Democracy, making autocracies sustainable.

* Bugs on autonomous weapons can make them much more dangerous, to both sides, even on peace time.
well if something similar happened, you could just call a different number from your bank and see if you still get connected. that would be a bad sign ;)
> Wouldn't software that acts like a jerk (ie not letting people in etc) be more valuable if it gets from A to B faster?

Because the software

- Isn't getting paid by the time taken, so isn't more expensive to take longer

- Trucks can be more fuel efficient at slower speeds

- Most truck shipping won't be so urgent that time matters beyond "Predictable arrival time".
And in Amsterdam as well.
> Now situation is very different.

No, children are still lying about their age to avoid being detained in camps.

I'm not trying to suggest that there aren't any adults also lying about their age, but it's a bit more complicated than you suggest, and it's not true to suggest that child migrants get an easy ride. They do not.
Which he would be denied, of course, because the best painkillers are "narcotics" and so tightly regulated that it's hard to get them even if you really, really need them.

That's a whole another story, to be sure, but relevant in practice.
I'm one of the co-founders of Webpass.io, and a dislike of being tracked is the primary reason why I am inclined towards using an adblocker myself. Before I realised the amount of tracking that went on, I hadn't been motivated enough to use an adblocker.

Webpass.io has been designed with this in mind. Webpass.io involves removing the advertiser from the transaction -- partnering sites remove advertisements, which should eliminate tracking by advertisers. When it comes to trackers from other sources (e.g., analytics), you can continue to use plugins like Ghostery or the EasyPrivacy list.

Webpass.io is a way for you to support websites, that is compatible with whatever means you use to protect your privacy. You don't need to opt into ads/trackers/third party cookies for our service to work. We track little from our users (check our privacy policy), and we have plans for the future to make our privacy features even stronger by offering (near) anonymous use of our system.

As for our own website, we have avoided using any code that could be used to track you by third parties -- no social media buttons that talk back to their original servers, no third-party commenting system, no third-party analytics, and so on.
Is writing "pure" Haskell to be hosted in a non-Haskell imperative environment a common thing to do, as opposed to separating the pure and the imperative via monads? Seems to me that Frege could make this quite attractive.