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> AFAIK these people don't commit the crimes (the FBI doesn't want the violent acts to actually occur), they just are involved in planning them.

Without any concrete actions, how does this so called "planning" differ from bragging?
> I agree. I never read Gawker or any of its sites, they were all garbage.

Well, no, some of the sites under the Gawker umbrella were quite excellent. That's one more thing to lay at the feet of Nick Denton; his irresponsible behavior is going to take down some pretty good journalism along with the cesspool that was Gawker proper.
> This was about the time MySQL came out, and years before Postgres added SQL support

Didn't those happen nearly at the same time? Postgres95 (which PostgreSQL started from) had support for some subset of SQL (including inner joins):
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f...
outer joins were added a bit later:
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
Your comment exposed me to the big gap between the meanings of muckraker in US and UK English:

1. (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.

2. (Britain) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
Which opinion piece are you referring to? I thought that they outed him as gay?
If your status page is not 100% transparent, don't have a status page. If you can't stand behind the number, don't show the number.

As brown9-2 mentioned, 0.01% in the last 30 days is ~4 minutes, the outage I personally am experiencing with Slack is way more than that.
The size of the award is insane. Wrongful death suits are awarded far lower amounts.
While that in itself is not necessarily desire behavior, the fact that this link is accessible to parties not part of the chat is by far the bigger problem.
But isn't it the case of any civil liberty lawyer rushing on a case to push his agenda or create a jurisprudence?
Patents are like the nuclear waste of innovation. At first, heavy with good intentions and swearing to use them for the best purposes, they make power for their creators.

But eventually they become old, disused, and forgotten, leaking out into the landscape and poisoning the environment for decades.
That's what happens when you're a news organization critical of Silicon Valley, and a tech billionaire doesn't like it. Which media outlet is next on Thiel's hit list?
On the other hand, most of my worst experiences with border agents were in Canadian airports. YMMV.
It's worthwhile to remember free speech is not absolute. There are several cases where it's not considered free speech, here are some examples:

Obscenity
Fighting words
Defamation (includes libel, slander)
Child pornography
Perjury
Blackmail
Incitement to imminent lawless action
True threats
Solicitations to commit crimes

I know people love to protect freedom of speech and I'm on that bandwagon, but please let's remember just because it appears freedom of speech is being violated doesn't mean it is (e.g. in cases were most people don't support something and it appears the mob rule is triumph, it should indeed be sign that something may be wrong but let's not use that sign as enough evidence that free speech is violated.) Sometimes it's not the freedom of speech that is being violated, but some person's rights.
Its amazing how many people are coming to claim this is "100% awesome", but in another thread will say that reddit closing threads that share stolen nudes or preteen porn is censorship that should be illegal and is demonstrating the power of SJWs.
The legal system fundamentally works like that. It's the "shoot one to encourage the others" approach. Not everyone gets made whole but the sort of behavior exhibited by Gawker will likely be a lot rarer in the future.
Rights aren't only protected if you exercise them publicly.
This is what confused me so much about the outrage Gawker was trying to incite - didn't they explicitly ignore a court order so they could keep making money on a pornographic video published without the consent of those in it?

It was my impression that Nick Denton told the court to fuck itself by ignoring the court order, and then doubled down in his deposition.
Elon is announcing this because he wants the world's scientists to get ready to send their experiments to Mars!

> “Essentially what we’re saying is we’re establishing a cargo route to Mars,” he said. “It’s a regular cargo route. You can count on it. It’s going happen every 26 months. Like a train leaving the station. And if scientists around the world know that they can count on that, and it’s going to be inexpensive, relatively speaking compared to anything in the past, then they will plan accordingly and come up with a lot of great experiments.”

And the MCT in 2022!

> Then in 2022, Musk said he hoped to launch what the company now sometimes refers to as the Mars Colonial Transporter, designed to bring a colony to Mars.
Someone should make a usb hard disk that doesn't allow existing files to be modified on it unless you flip a physical switch. Then you could back your data to that and not worry about it being wiped / encrypted.
Also a good point, true. But it does put the lie to their claim, under oath, in court, that there was emotional damage suffered and that compensation was sought.
> If they can do it without training and education

You don't have to go to school to learn how to manipulate people.
Me knowing who someone screws is absolutely not in the public interest. A video of someone screwing that they don't want public and more specifically, didn't consent to film is also not in the public interest. Privacy is a right.
The team will politely refuse to take this on. And maybe suggest a Snapchat clone :)

The last few app requests were: Tinder for shopping, QR code generator and scanner, chatroom app etc.
Interesting! I'm going to change my language from "muckraking" to "investigative journalism". Thanks for pointing this out.
> A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened .... It's more important to get the tone right than the details.

That strikes me as a very Stalinist take on things. I would paraphrase it as the movie director's saying: It doesn't matter how many actual, real, flesh-and-blood people I hurt; what matters is that I advance what I imagine to be the greater long-term good. (Or, classically: The ends justify the means.)

Not for me, thanks.
My first scala job was with a group that didn't like to use a lot of the more FP-like constructs such as folding. So I also didn't have experience with that after three months. You could argue that meant I wasn't really using scala but I wasn't totally clueless.
It's worthwhile to remember free speech is not absolute. There are several cases where it's not considered free speech, here are some examples:
Obscenity, Fighting words, Defamation (includes libel, slander) Child pornography, Perjury, Blackmail, Incitement to imminent lawless action, True threats, Solicitations to commit crimes.

I know people love to protect freedom of speech and I'm on that bandwagon, but please let's remember just because it appears freedom of speech is being violated doesn't mean it is (e.g. in cases were most people don't support something and it appears the mob rule is triumph, it should indeed be sign that something may be wrong but let's not use that sign as enough evidence that free speech is violated.) Sometimes it's not the freedom of speech that is being violated, but some person's rights.
No, but one of the reasons "maintenance" is or was illegal is because the defendant has a right to know their accuser/opponent and their motivations, hence discovery and other pre-trial proceedings, so they can best defend themselves.
Really? What's the alternative? Have really smart kids suffer through lessons that are menial to them?

I was lucky enough to be in a school that had lots of programs for gifted kids and let them do their own work or work in small groups among themselves. Those moments were by far the brightest of my compulsory education.
>The UK has an open land border with another EU country - Ireland - and so far the Brexit campaign have been very unclear about whether this would continue

It would - see the Ireland Act 1949.

>what implications that might have for ""controlling immigration"" and ""protecting borders"".

That is what's ambiguous.
> In my own case, I knew that the patent I was helping my company's attorneys to file was a valuable property that the company would own and possibly sell. But I didn't contemplate what could happen after such a sale

Seriously?
> Shouldn't it be up to Theil when and where he outs himself instead of blog like Valleywag doing it for him?

Agree, but it isn't illegal.
I can sympathise with this, as the average Internet speeds at my place are terrible, especially on the so-called "unlimited" plan, which actually has a ridiculously low Fair Usage Limit set by my ISP so that I apparently blow through it within days of the start of a new month, all from just plain browsing and updating (Linux) software, not even torrenting. Once you're beyond the fair use limit the speed becomes 60 kbps for the rest of the month unless I "top-up", for which the ISP often nags by redirecting plain http connections to their nag-page or sending me emails. But I stick it out and do any heavy downloading by running the program continuously overnight. It takes ~12 hours to get ~1 Gb of data.
When going back to the United States from Canada, I was sent to secondary screening because I said I had a TN Visa, when the correct thing to say was TN Status.
Because laws are complicated and hard? there's a reason attorney's typically make decent money
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11877814.
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> The jury is basically a direct poll of 12 average Americans

Well, except for the part where the lawyers get to remove the people they don't want. It's not really random at that point.
I hope John Woo directs it, so we could have a few slo-mo moments with Doves flying overhead while a greorian chant plays in the background (that's just the opening).
Access is Windows only and is way harder to build with. AFAIK, FileMaker also has an easier path for getting your data on the web or on mobile devices.
I don't see how the second link you provided shines any bad light on sqlite. It calls it the easiest to use of the 3.
To me the irc conversations he cites make it very clear that mozilla was Simply bashing SQL at the peak of the NoSQL bubble.

I also see the lack of alternative implementations as a plus. SQLite is as portable as C essentially. So it's the only Web standard that's not broken and different in subtle ways across browsers.

If you look through old mail and irc archives you'll also find that somebody actually offered to specify a websql sqlite independent of sqlite under the condition that mozilla will assure that they will implement it. Which didn't happen.
> Edit: To be clear, the browser may display an error in the console as a diagnostic tool, but my impression is that unhandled rejections will not result in an actual exception that halts execution.

Well if it's not handled there is simply no further promise-chain to call. If you maintain a large-enough app, you probably have some kind of tool for reporting client-side javascript errors. When you have unhandled promises it's not always clear that they are unhandled because you handled it and just happened to re-throw even though the promise has no further chain, or whether someone messed up and actually isn't handling a rejection. Thus to avoid this, adding new promise to a chain involves finding the first .catch(), adding a throw, and an extra .catch() further down the chain.
Slack is generally very reliable. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first "real world" load test its status page has ever had.
> ...and we are probably eeing some of the results from there.

Yes, probably, but don't forget that those are the people who probably liked privacy-related Facebook pages and don't necessarily represent the opinion of an average Facebook user.
To some extent. I think they should only be transferred in the case of an acquisition of the company or if the buyer can show that their business is aligned with the patent being bought.

Such restrictions would kill the patent troll business overnight.
I would say the contrary would be problematic.

What if this organisation could publish any dirt on you, could publish your most intimate pictures or details and if you were suing them, they would be fined only $10k, which they wouldn't care about because they make a lot more money abusing people?

I would say this would be justice and ordinary citizens being helpless against big business.
The term was coined as a perjorative (by Teddy Roosevelt) and then co-opted as a term of honor by the journalists he was attacking.
> who's to say they wouldn't commit acts of terror with more primitive means?

Basic psych, backed up by statistics.

There's a critical amount of motivation needed for large plans (travel, running a business, shooting people, etc) that most people never come up with on their own.

When we look at how many dangerous people (as proven by unprompted attacks) fit into a profile the FBI would have harassed beforehand we can see how unrelated these groups are.

It's not like they're doing a bad thing but actually accomplishing something with it, such that if we just suffer some pain (the odd false arrest) we would made safer. Actually they're almost 100% misguided and we gain nothing except having built an otherwise worthless secret police who think they're infallible. (After all, they convince almost 100% of the crazies they target to push a button...)

> In the end, there is only one question you need to ask yourself: am I at risk of an FBI entrapment sting?

No, are you more likely at risk of FBI entrapment than suffering in an actual terrorist attack?

Security has to have a goal (safety) against which you measure the cost (false arrest).

The answer is that you're vastly more likely to be implicated in a sting than actually hurt by a terrorist. Why? Because the FBI's actual success rate at stopping dangerous people is close to zero but their budget is nearly unlimited.

They're federal police. They good at stopping bank robberies and kidnappings. They fail at everything more complex because they are institutionally allergic to realistic profiles. (Why, partly because most agents would get a high score on a "likely dangerous" checklist that didn't unduly focus on being muslim.)

> Since I do not condone terrorism or make any effort to communicate with terrorists or terrorist supporters, the Bureau will not bother me.

If you understood the depth of data collected you'd realize you're never more than two-degrees separated. Probably less if you have a contact-list over 100 people.
As an American it is not her fault that your finger prints are taken at the US border so your argument that it is a "skewed perspective" and implication that she doesn't have a right to complain about it does not hold water.
False equivalency. They bullied Thiel, and made him unhappy. I don't see any evidence that his ability to do business has been affected.

Thiel has now made it impossible for Gawker to continue as a company.

The effect of the bullying is vastly different.
Yes, in a time before judicial independence and separation of powers were implemented.
Keep the facts out of this!
Also cmd.exe being a steaming pile of shit and the handful of commandline utilities that ship by default are mostly ancient DOS versions from the 80s.

There are a couple of gems (netsh for example), but commandline on Windows is just painful.

Powershell does give you a lot more potential, but I've found its syntax to be too verbose to be a comfortable commandline replacement.
No support for temporal data as in SQL:2011.

There were some attempts but none made it so far. See also: https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/64/Fosdem20150130Postgr...
Too much friday beer?
I've "ported" ~200k lines of C++03 to C++11 and so far I've had to make exactly one change due to language changes (C++11 forbids narrowing conversions in braced inits, while C++03 just did nonsensical things). That's not to say that no other changes were required, but the rest were things like fixing code that had both C++03 and C++11 versions and the C++11 version was broken, and fixing compatibility issues with libc++.
The only problem is that while this is fantastic advice, it just means that the people who are going to be abused in the systems are the ones who haven't gotten the message, or otherwise struggle to implement it.
Oops, accidentally flagged GP. Sorry for that, hope the unflag works :/.
Have you tried using email and/or a phone? These seem to work well for all other industries.
False. Statements must be untrue to be either libel (written) or slander (verbal). The sex tape in question was real.

I would not be so quick to celebrate. This case has demonstrated that one or two very powerful, wealthy individuals (Peter Thiel et al) are able to destroy a successful business and ruin the livlihoods of dozens merely because they were embarassed.

(It's worth noting that what Gawker originally wrote about Thiel was also apparently true.)
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by "Seriously?"

It's interesting to receive snarky replies and be modded down to goatse.cx territory for posting an honest, factual account of events that took place over 25 years ago that I've come to regret participating in. But it's also puzzling, because the people who disagree with me aren't stating why.
Whooooosh
Gawking at Gawker circling the sewer drain.
"The government of India, believing the gem was rightfully theirs, first demanded the return of the Koh-i-Noor as soon as independence was granted in 1947. A second request followed in 1953, the year of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Each time, the British government rejected the claims, saying that ownership was non-negotiable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor

Also, I would be curious to see accounts where Brits punished any of their officials for the crimes in colonies. Mr. Dyer was merely removed from his post after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

EDIT: one more:

"British maintain 379 were killed - lower than the 1000 stated by India"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283438/David-Camero...
I personally know several gay men who were outed against their will. In some cases it ruined their lives. One committed suicide. They didn't have billions to insulate them from the harm it caused them.

None of them went on revenge campaigns for being outed, not even with their meager, non-billionaire resources.
In a few decades it will be discovered that the whole Theranos debacle was simply a setup sell Movies and Books. Would be the most awesome setup ever!
Can you cite any examples of libel and slander that have been published by Gawker?
It's interesting that it was actually higher than what the plaintiffs requested. It wasn't clear to me who sets that, the judge or the jury?
The Israeli government swears by this method. Given the high threat-level and low incident rate one shouldn't say it's ineffective. Honestly, I would rather have such a method than the almost useless security theatre we face at every airport.

(After clicking the link I noticed that it's actually founded by former Israeli intelligence workers.)
Yes, exactly.

After Thiel was revealed as the financier, some in the media saw an opportunity to re-caste the narrative in a way that they knew would appeal to our hatred of the rich and our fear for their abuse of power. The story became all about Thiel the alleged bully, the abuser of power, his petty grudge, etc etc. It was effective manipulation, just look at the comments here from those who think this 'sets a bad precedent'.

Never mind that Thiel's side was right and Gawker was wrong. Never mind that the mechanism employed to achieve justice here is basically the same mechanism that the ACLU uses.
Ah, that helps. I saw "14 comments", clicked this, and then saw no comments on this post for a while, and was seriously confused.
The worse thing is how cash is not a resource, but a standard technology "regulated" by a private institution (that nontheless has the word federal in its name)
Too often, the team fit is put aside and you end up with people who does not play well with others in your team. Technical interview can be ok but I would not put too much details into it. I have been in technical interviews where people were asking questions about obscure API calls and they were expecting applicants to come up with questions that were not relevant to the job.
We don't seem to stop and think that if everyone is freely abusing everyone else, that's not an ideal situation. While it's impossible to eliminate a lot of these systemic ills, I feel like the general response is sort of, "We can't fix it all at once, perfectly, so lets pretend that it doesn't exist."
People keep saying things like that. But I keep wondering if they have considered the flip side of that, which is are we really comfortable saying that the personal relationships of rich and famous people shouldn't be in the media?

When I go to the supermarket I see 500 headlines about famous people dating and breaking up and cheating on their partners, etc.

Sure it's a little lowbrow but do we really feel that rumors about Brad Pitt and Carrie Underwood's dating life are ok to publish but his aren't? Are Peter Thiel's relationships specifically somehow exempt from this aspect of the culture?
I'm sorry, but I just cannot accept that anyone who has any decent skill at programming would fail fizzbuzz.
So you'd like it if Gawker was trolling your feed (and those of your friends and family) for what they feel to be sufficient disclosure to post some gossip clickbait?
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The real takeaway of course, is that since this is theater, you must know your lines. If you don't, the whole thing stalls and you run the risk of being thrown into the gears.
Hiding on the other side of a planet can block most forms of radiation except neutrinos. So, it's not completely irrelevant.
No, Microsoft bought Bungie while Halo was in development, you could never buy Halo for Mac.
How can an old patent cause problems for decades when patents expire after only two decades?
To be sure that they couldn't catch her lying, she would have to avoid to take anything with her which could give a hint for her real purpose of visit. Also she should avoid that her name is for example on the speaker list. Also she should have a complete faked travel plan for her touristic visit, including hotel bookings.

Does this sound realistic?
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Perhaps we should pay law enforcement based on a lack of crime. Less crime? More pay. More crime? Less pay.

Of course, how are we counting "crimes"? By those they actually arrest? They'll just stop arresting. By the number of complaints reported by citizens about crime? Perhaps?

I bet there's also some unintended consequence even with this scheme, but I'm feeling lazy just now.
I'm not saying it's not useful to know or that having that knowledge might make someone a better candidate, but it seems like that alone shouldn't be reason enough to reject someone.

And I disagree that looking up the answers to common interview questions is focused pragmatism. I don't bother, even with the knowledge that it would help me get a job. I spend my time working on side projects or learning practical things. I think I will never in my life have implement a hash map, and that knowing it's all O(1) operations is sufficient. But also I guess I don't want to work for a company that is interested in my ability to jump through hoops. (shrug)