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I'm not justifying what happened here and certainly the treatment she got was excessive. However, the reason that she had for entering the UK did require a visa that she had to obtain before traveling. The fact that she would have gotten admitted into the country if she would have given vague or wrong answers to the questions doesn't mean she is actually "innocent". Immigration officers are trained to pick up on people violating the law and she certainly was. This kind of treatment is not something you would get if you weren't.
Cause I like to get shit done.
Don't anger the Billionaire. He can fund the Lawsuits longer than you can stay solvent.
Status page takes more than 30 seconds to load. Uhm.
My understanding is that this problem was alleviated with index-only scans in Postgres 9.2. Using these, each tuple no longer needs to be visited to check for visibility.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9....
Sad in a way. AFAIK, Gawker is not only one of the few independent online media companies (VICE/Vox/BuzzFeed/BusinessInsider are heavily funded/owned by massive media conglomerates), it was one of the few media companies period making a healthy profit:

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/06/gawkers-pre-hoga...

> The company’s revenue had grown from about $5.3 million in 2006 to $43.8 million in 2014. It was consistently profitable, with a 2014 operating income of $6.7 million. Most importantly, it had an ambitious plan to create a lucrative new revenue stream by monetizing third-party content on its proprietary online publishing platform, Kinja, that promised to deliver the site from many of the increasing pressures facing ad-supported digital publishing.

I wouldn't be surprised if Gawker were the only online-only media company that was making profits in the range of millions. That Hogan video, which couldn't have brought in more than a good week's worth of traffic, was a fucking dumb way to flush a nearly billion dollar company down the toilet. For legal reasons, Gawker has publicly stood by the former editor who published the post (and then who went on to create another Gawker-like site [1], that immediately folded because of non-traffic), but I wonder if Gawker employees are privately treating him like a pariah.

[1] http://ratter.com/
You look shifty to me... :)

All of us is my guess.
A billionaire used his money and influence to destroy an organization because he doesn't agree with what they say. I can think of at least one thing of value that was lost.
Regarding people losing their jobs - that is a result of the terrible judgement and values of the leadership of Gawker. They are not being 'punished' for anything. Do you think that the people at Ford were 'punished' when the leadership of Ford made bad decisions that cost people their jobs?

"emotional comfort of a billionaire"

That is very dismissive. Are people worth less to you when they have more money?
"Precedent this sets"? I think "Don't publish a illegally made video of people in a private moment or ignore court orders to take down the video." to be a rather positive precedent, don't you? That's the sort of chilling effect on media we should all be applauding.

Thief merely funded a court battle that had merit (in this case, quite a lot of merit) that Bollea probably could have won on his own. I fail to see what the hand-wringing about is about.
> "I haven't mentioned or was making any points about F# or C#; I was commenting on what appears to be your definition of a functional language"

sremani != ZenoArrow (though if you read this sremani, thank you for attempting to clarify).

There are many 'multi-paradigm' languages, and C# is one of them. From the C# Wikipedia page...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)

"C# (pronounced as see sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines."

What makes a language 'functional' is first-class functions (i.e. functions that can be treated as values, which is what I was referring to in my earlier post).

As sremani said, F# is 'functional first', in the sense that the language is designed to make functional algorithms straightforward to express. You can write C# in a functional way too, but there's less syntactic sugar for this style of programming.

Hope that clears it up.
Portfolios are a good heuristic, but you can't be sure the person actually wrote the code/took the pics, which is why you need some other way to verify they're actually capable of producing that work, not just copying it. Hence technical interviews.

Even for a programmer with a portfolio, it's vital that you be able to probe them with questions about design decisions and expose someone who didn't actually write it.

Does photography have some sort of solution to this problem? Can you ask a photographer about how they took a picture to easily reveal whether they actually took it?

I'm guessing there's less of a need to verify skill with photographers since most of the work is on a gig or piece-work basis where it's easy to terminate the relationship or refuse payment in case of obvious frauds. OTOH, what stops an unskilled from stealing a portfolio (or using with their consent) to get work? What happens if they produce usable work, but which doesn't look anything like the quality suggested like their portfolio?
shame.. i am passionate about discussing this topic but it is hard to 'engage' with unaccompanied downvotes
But they weren't the only ones and I don't think they were even the first ones to do so. (At work no way I am researching if I am right) I HATE GAWKER but it does seem strange that no one else was sued for this.
It is going to be complicated but I don't think it's going to be such a big problem? There will be lots of time to find workable arrangements, it's not like everything changes overnight.

In the case of Spain and the UK there are lots of reasons to maintain a good working relationship.

Of course it may not work out that way but, going back to the original point, anyone who left the UK 15 years ago had to be aware there may be problems further down the line?
You're not being fair. Quite to the contrary, I have sympathy for both her and you.

As she explained in the article, she's not necessarily responsible for the actions of her government.
I stopped reading at some point, but it seems to be an excellently written and argued text.

The argument is precise and "lawyerly", yet, the tone is conversational. Nothing like people commonly expect court documents.

But US judges do have a tradition of writing pleasantly, sometimes even humorously.
In chrome, just put a question mark before the url, it will take you to google with the url as the first result.
> Libel and slander have no place in a functioning democracy

One man's libel/slander is another man's investigate journalism ("muckraking" in the US). In this particular case, Gawker wasn't guilty of either libel or slander because they didn't publish anything about Hogan that was false.

> it shouldn't take a billionaire to sue and win judgement against slanderous publishers

It's actually much harder to win a libel/slander suit as a public figure. See: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/libel-defamation
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If you're interested in searching photos with ES - I took a some what simpler approach focusing just on major colors in the image.

But with some of the machine vision API google cloud etc. you could extend to other "features"

Details:
http://blog.sandeepchivukula.com/posts/2016/03/06/photo-sear...
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I only wish people were as ardently Constitutionalist when it came to other amendments (e.g., the one after free speech).

I for one am overjoyed with this news and have no concern whatsoever that it will be the death knell of legitimate journalism. Voyeuristic muck like Gawker makes society ugly.
A racist billionaire[1], funding another racist millionaire[2], supporting another racist billionaire[3]

But everyone seems to be ok with this, because of pseudo libertarianism?

Libertarianism: "All the parts of government that benefit rich folks are legit/necessary/essential. All the parts that benefit poor folks are illegitimate/aggression/tyranny."

Oh man... what is going on!?!

[1]https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic...

[2]http://nypost.com/2015/07/24/why-is-wwe-frantically-scrubbin...

[3]http://www.salon.com/2016/06/09/donald_trumps_response_to_re...

[3a]http://www.wired.com/2016/05/investor-peter-thiel-will-calif...
It's called 'maintenance' and it was made illegal under common law of England 500 years ago

http://overlawyered.com/2016/05/champerty-maintenance-explai...
Ono is the most self-promoting mathematician I've ever seen. He's done some outstanding work, but he certainly enjoys the spotlight.
Well Gawker isn't exactly the Wall Street Journal and they didn't get the bankruptcy treatment for having a differing political opinion or some different viewpoint. They were bullying people and now they are getting bullied.
I agree with you. Security by obscurity seems super stupid to me. You deserve to be hacked and have all your secrets exposed. And if you're posting confidential stuff on FB and expecting it to be safe from prying eyes, you're a next level of stupid. But I'm old school, what do I know? I'm just waiting for the day future employers are finding nudes of job candidates off snapchat.
> he doesn't agree with what they say

That wording seems a bit too kind to Gawker.
??? Gone?
Dedicated sensor hardware blows away laborious fancy math to overcome the limitations of a sensor.

This doesn't work at consumer scale.

No-one is seriously using monocular vision for any kind of serious environmental sensing

That's why we're different.
I think you may be over-simplifying.
This wouldn't happen to a good journalist because a good journalist wouldn't publish a stolen sex tape.
This isn't really evidence that it's possible to make an engine that can crumple. In fact, quite the opposite.

This particular Corsa B (93-2000) was a 1.4i (1.4L engine) - the physical dimensions of the engine are extremely small[1], and there is a lot of empty space in the engine bay that isn't taken up by the main engine block (excluding various plastics, wiring, etc - actual metal). I don't think it's so much the case that this engine "could crumple", rather that there was a lot of space for the front to crumple into, before there was none left and the engine was then pushed into the cabin.

Engine blocks are, well, blocks of metal. They're not going to crumple in any meaningful way.

[1]: http://iheartautos.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/engine-b...
I'm torn between everyone having their privacy and ripping the band-aid off by exposing everyone's private life at once so we see how things really are instead of how we think them to be

For instance, I'd bet that many marriages are largely keeping up appearances while hiding some big secrets which would put the whole concept of "Western marriage" at risk (perhaps justifiably)
I'd like to see more details regarding what exactly his vision consists of.
That's precisely what Thiel's doing though -- He just hit the jackpot with the Hogan amount. He's also funding several other suits against Gawker including one from someone who claimed to have invented email. He's like a terrible patent troll for journalism.

The Gizmodo article that Thiel thinks is worth suing Gawker over: http://gizmodo.com/5887480/the-inventor-of-email-did-not-inv...
The person I responded to seems to think that mathematics is not difficult to engage with outside of academia. You seem to be under the impression that even making a lateral move post professional training is amazingly hard. It appears that you agree with my first post that grasping second year graduate level mathematics does require formal training for all but a very few.
Thiel's plan was exactly to wear down Gawker by frivolous lawsuits until either they collapsed or he lucked out; that's why his legal team was searching through thousands of articles looking for people they could contact to drum up a case or fund an existing case, including the 'father of email' case. Court cases are not deterministic noise-free processes.
That's how the first amendment works for public figures.

And it's not as if gawker doesn't regularly break important news -- viz the crack mayor, Chris Lee / republicans cruising for strange, etc.
No, they are not a sign of respect. They are a huge distraction that preface too many articles and discussions
I'm currently an EU citizen living in UK. This here is exactly the reason why I fear that UK might want to leave EU, even though every single English friend of mine is telling me that I would obtain a visa to stay and continue working here without any problems, if visas were introduced. The truth is - if I had to have a visa to stay here, I would rather go to the country of my birth, even though I feel no connection to it. I don't think I could mentally survive the anguish of being denied entry to UK, even though I live here, work here, have my partner, our house and our whole lives here - just because a border official might not like my visa or what I said. It would be just humiliating and the thought of that happening is feeling me with real dread.
> Don't publish a illegally made video of people in a private moment or ignore court orders to take down the video.

What about that video of Mitt Romney at a private campaign event, where he said some horrible stuff about poor people? That was a private video, probably made illegally.

Journalism is about making private things public when it suits the public. An individual (who is directly impacted by the revelations) should not be able to use the courts to crush that journalism.

Gawker has been repugnant and they shouldn't have done what they did to Hogan, but there could still be a bad precedent here.
I don't have a problem with that. A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened- that's a job for journalists and historians, they're a different breed of storyteller than what you conventionally find in Hollywood, with different goals. It's more important to get the tone right than the details.

I mean, the biggest movie made about the vietnam war was 'Apocalypse Now'. It was made up. None of that actually happened, but it set the tone for how the war is remembered for millions who were never actually there. As factual accounts get passed through the generations they become myths, and myths are what they are because they're worth remembering.

And with regards to Holmes reputation, well, from where she's at now, there's nowhere to go but up. As for all her investors: they deserve what they've got coming.
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Access seems way more cheaper and more advanced? and with access you get the whole suit(excel and word).
Not for another two weeks, anyway... :-(
Developer productivity increases by an order of magnitude.
He didn't. Gawker chose to do all the things that got them sued in the first place.
Well then, I guess it's been working out for them ;)

So far..
Here's the page from 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20150912204350/https://www.gov.u...

It's not that different, and it's still pretty clear that she needs to investigate whether she needs a visa.
Yes, it is great to see so many people looking at the big picture, rather than just one very narrow angle.
That specific case - yes it was a stretch, although this brings a question of a mental health -related detention which is a huge can of worms in and of itself. Also there are no specific details on the mental disease he was allegedly struggling with. Dissolving ppl in acid and burning women refusing to have sex with you is a 'mental disease' in my book which is what isis is doing. Should they be exempt from prosecution?

That said : "Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations. Of those cases, an informant or FBI undercover operative led 49 defendants in their terrorism plots, similar to the way Osmakac was led in his."
So now 49 cases out of 508 were 'led' by the FBI, not clear how many of those had to do with mentally unfit individuals or if Osmakac was the only one.
I'd love to see someone suggesting suing Breitbart/Fox out of existence. I mean... they're just as 'newsful' as gawker was...
If you read my second sentence "I just wanted to make a point that such statement places all the burden on the individual, without acknolwedging the systems at play in fostering and developing talent", you would know that we hold the same position. The point I am making is not that some are talented and some are not (only idiots would believe in fully meritocratic outcomes), but that the burden of seemingly "untalented" people lies with the society as much as it does with the individual, and the original bumper-sticker statement does not acknowledge that complexity and power dynamic. I have no hostility.
But - given the rules in place, she actually did not have the right paperwork to give a paid talk at the conference.

Ie I think the majority of the ordeal stems from this - not ill-handling on the part of staff who work there.
It's not supposed to scale, this is an article about the cost and time to build a MVP.
That's a reasonable trade-off, if the sole alternative is being unable to do something that you need to.
Not necessarily, unless you think that the only sensible price for Facebook shares is $17 (instead of the current price of $117).
It wasn't direct, it was through a legal system. Are you therefore arguing that Gawker should be allowed to publish private video they obtain that was filmed without consent from the subject?
That might be interesting, though I also think that choke points around gates open up interesting game play in itself.

But note that Elite doesn't really need to have choke points around gates, as it doesn't have gates. It has system to system jumps, that leave you "somewhere" far out from the station.

In Elite it doesn't matter whether or not that "somewhere" is in theory the same spot or a random position near the planet, as the system, including any ships, is re-generated from scratch each time you enter.

So in a multiplayer version you could avoid gate camping simply by making it a random position, but as I mentioned I think choke points might be interesting.

Elite has a simple mechanism that is easily extended to prevent such choke points getting out of hand too: Reputation with local law enforcement.

Generally this means you want to do your dirty deeds far away from the stations, but it'd be easy enough to extend it towards the jump points, and make the station security pay attention if there are repeated reports of ambushes.
I think the precedent OP is concerned about is not about Hogan specifically. Thiel probably doesn't give a shit about Hogan's sex tape. He probably dislikes Gawker for other reasons (maybe general tone or content, or maybe something specific in a particular article by one of Gawker's subproperties; who knows?), but he took advantage of the opportunity the Hogan case provided to eliminate a media outlet.

The problem is that any media outlet, if they've been around long enough, has probably published something you could convince a jury was slanderous or libelous or defamatory or whatever. So the precedent I think OP is concerned about is: if you're a rich person and you don't like something a media outlet writes about you or your startup or your pet issue of the week or whatever, it's now been proven effective for you to troll through that publisher's history in search of something juicy to pay someone to sue over, and use it to take that entire company out of the water, forever, even if the thing you're suing over has nothing to do with the thing you found objectionable in the first place, which may be perfectly journalistically legitimate and legal.

Or, concretely: who's going to want to write anything nasty about Peter Thiel or his interests now, since he's proven a willingness to go to great lengths to find dirt to kill companies?
Is it just me, but have all forms of art simply melded with self-promotion? (Melded in the sense found in the movie "The Fly.")
One of the authors here: we've had some internal debate on this since that article was written, summarized here:

https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20160331-facebook-react-pa...

Technically speaking, with respect to the whole argument that React is “just a library,” part of the problem is that it isn't perceived that way by many developers. The first auto-complete option (for me anyway) when I type “Web Components vs…” is React.

That said, the developer experience around Web Components is meh. Part of our frustration is that it would have been cool to see Facebook invest all the effort into Web Components-based technologies instead of going off on their own.
How did you figure out the optimal reinforcement schedule for behaviors? That doesn't seem like something you can just brute force with number crunching.
At times I had that feeling, but then something happens that has in me in stitches in a way that few other shows pull off.

My main issue is Bachmann. He's been a bit too much for a while, but judging by the last episode I think the writers did this on purpose.
The issue I have with it is that money from an external source that had nothing to do with the suit was funnelled in

This is incredibly common, e.g. it's basically the entire job description of the ACLU. Why is it different in this case?
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[1]: https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller
We do interviews in person where I ask a few basic questions and listen for the answer, then assign a somewhat complex problem to be solved in a pre-prepared iOS project. Google fully allowed. I'm not even looking for a 100% functional solution or even particularly elegant code, I want to see how a candidate reacts to pressure and how resourceful they are.

I would say the majority of our hires don't complete it and I always explain that's fine, the point is to observe the process they used to create whatever they created.
Somewhat related, but the status page states Uptime last 30 days: 99.99% but https://status.slack.com/calendar shows quite a few incidents in the past 30 days. Do only total "outages" count against the uptime?

FWIW, 0.01% of 30 days is 4 minutes 19 seconds.
I'm a free speech absolutist, but what precedent does this set that's new? The person that leaked the "Fappening" items is also being prosecuted, why should a media publication like Gawker not be held accountable? No one really seemed to have -big- issue with this until Thiel was in the picture.
The flat line in the bathtub curve is where given "data will never exceed 10k rows" implies no database. On the inexperienced end, people don't understand that 10k rows doesn't require a database. On the experienced end, candidates probably oughtn't to believe it.
I am about as worried about gawker employees losing their jobs than I am about ISIS fighters losing their jobs. These guys are making money outing people and publishing sex tapes.
"That said, sometimes Tesla does make genuine mistakes. We are not and have never claimed to be perfect. However, we strongly believe in trying to do the right thing and, when we fall short, taking immediate corrective action."

This is what makes me feel confident about a company. Doesn't ring like false humbleness or a disclaimer, just something that you'd hear on a open conversation, where the other party is being sincere.

And the worse thing about the whole situation is that damage is already done. Because people will believe anything they read.
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