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The whole point of this type of abuse stemming from authority is to make the abused discredited, typically by recruiting people into one's defense (and, in fact, Alison cites a specific instance where she was recruited into defending). What would be unusual in a case of systemic abuse would be to find no one who stepped up to defend the abuser who had no direct knowledge of the abuse.

Their opinion is clearly irrelevant to the question of whether abuse occurred, and that they would offer such an irrelevant opinion is neutral evidence at best.

Also re authorities, you're talking about people on the Tor project, and most systemic abusers are pretty careful to not provide a clear chain of evidence. So you're asking someone to go to an authority they likely specifically distrust to blow up their relationship with their community likely for no gain, since there will almost certainly not be a successful prosecution. I'm sure you can see how this might not be an appealing option.
Positive doesn't necessarily mean happy fun joy, in the context of HN, I think it means "value was added". Look at the comments this post is generating... Is any value being added?

If this was some kind of article about these people's experiences, then I can understand the value it adds. But this is just he-said-she-said, there's no value here. The guy they purport to be an offender hasn't even been charged!
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> I don't care about the likelihood of a randomly generated program with correct syntax being correctly typed because people don't program that way.

Agreed!

> But rather this: let's take a correct program of size N (N nodes in the syntax tree) and insert a single error into it and give the modified program to someone to find the error (without giving them the original, of course).

I think that's a good approximation. There is some additional structure it discards; I care most about errors that people are likely to make, and about surfacing changes required in likely refactoring. But I expect something that does well at the one is likely to do well enough at the other.

> If it's a type error, it can be found by searching the space of N nodes. If it can be any defect whatsoever, the search space is the entire state space of the program emanating from all combinations of all possible inputs.

Which is exactly why we want to make as many errors "type errors" as possible (modulo tradeoffs). We'd much, much rather search that smaller space.
Remember that the verdict of "not guilty" is not the same as "innocent". We can't take away Ghomeshi's freedom, but we can send him to counselling, warn women, or other things that do not require judges and cops.
It's truly incredible that I can sit here, plug my headphones into this little electrical box and "hear" the gravitational sound of two black holes colliding. If only Mr. Einstein could be here to listen.
Well, at one time it did[1]. A hundred years ago, I could have walked down to the train station down my street, hopped on a train and gotten off in my home town, 150 miles away, having taken a nap or read a book on the way. Now I've got to drive myself that distance in a hurtling chunk of metal, constantly on the alert for all the other crazy people darting around in their high-velocity chunks of metal, and arrive exhausted.

Ain't that some progress

[1] http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/Hist%20111%20Images/RR1890....
I strongly recommend the episode of econtalk on this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html
I'm not so surprised that there are no GR deviations in these early days of detections that are just becoming significant over the instrument noise.

GW physicists are hard at work on the future generations of GW detectors... In 50 years, a signal like GW150914 might have an SNR of >1000, so we'll see all kinds of detail that may hold more information than what we've seen so far.
When I read it was 70 cc I was a little taken aback. In Italy there are a ton of people moving on scooters (mopeds) that are limited to 50 cc. It's true that they can't have more than 1.5 hp of power, but that's the law not the physical maximum for a piston engine.
In this context, a great lecture about ancient Silicon Valley history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Lecture brought to you by The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (http://www.computerhistory.org/)

TL;DR: The foundation for the SV was laid by the US government in WWII. Only on that basis did private enterprise build the industry.

From today's point of view, WWII saw today unimaginable spending - huge waste! - by the government. On research, research, more research and infrastructure, and more infrastructure, and even more research. Imagine even half the amount they spent back then announced today (in today's dollars). The cries about government overreach and waste and "oh my god the debt!" would shake the North American continent down to 5 km below the surface.
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There is a slight security concern to binding it to a port above 1024 in that a non-privileged user can bind to that port and MITM.

Here is a good summary of the different options you have with ssh and choosing a port:

http://serverfault.com/questions/619898/should-i-change-the-...
1. My point was that it wasn't a replacement. It's not even capable of getting half the power. Hence my claim that the title was clickbait, it's patently false. That's like saying I invented a replacement motor for the Bugatti Veyron at half the cost, oh by the way it makes 400 horsepower instead of 1000.

2. Again it's my demonstration of clickbait. A 40 pound engine that makes 6.5 horsepower will never be replaced by an engine featured in the article. At least, not in the next several decades. An engine that weighs 40 pounds and makes 6.5 horsepower is called a lawnmower engine. It's cheap to make and maintain and people use it because it's affordable. People aren't going to replace their $50 lawn mower engine with one that's $1000.
Given that they are targeting very high efficiency, and they have very low weight, what about something with just a little bit more than the power output to cover highway cruising speeds? With the properties this has, it would make a great range extender.
Great great post. Thanks for summarizing that so eloquently - I'll be keeping a copy of this comment around as a list of things to practice and continue practicing.
I can attest to the truth in this statement: I have slept in the same bed as many people and have not sexually assaulted any of them.
Terrific and well written. This current presidential election has really shown just how ignorant the liberal side of this country can be to it's own viciousness. I've seen so many Bernie supporters suggest that anyone who doesn't vote Bernie hates America, or hates poor people.

There's no acceptance for other people to support other candidates. Even within a party people are willing to tear each other apart.
> he had to intentionally make stuff look cheap and crappy

Same goes for store brands (say Whole Foods) always bare bones design intentionally not to look to slick.
>So why not say something immediately at least?

Have you ever been sexually assaulted? (That's a rhetorical question, unless you actually want to answer.) It's deeply traumatic. In situations where you previously trusted the person who hurt you, it can be very hard to come to terms with what actually happens. Many victims feel shame. It takes time and often therapy to come to a place where you're ready to speak about it publicly.

(I'm not saying this is the experience of everyone who's ever been sexually assaulted, but it's an experience that has been commonly attested to.)
This reminds me of the 2010 Digg redesign, which resulted in a massive user exodus to a much less polished looking reddit...
Summaries are good, to what degree is their generation automated?

I think the app is nice to use, however I think it'd need to summarize articles of my choosing to be useful to me.

I found the landing page for the mobile app to be very noisy. Scrolling was all over the place.
I am not sure you have a lot of empathy if you automatically assume people want to be asked that question. I hate it if colleagues without kids ask me about my weekend because I believe that the joy of fatherhood breeds extremely boring stories for those who don't share it. I just don't want to feel lame telling you about how cute my daughters were.

Or if I am bustling with joy because the wife and I managed to sneak in an evening of kinky sex between bringing the kids to bed and work on monday. THAT's what I am thinking about and THAT's not what I want to tell you. So I invent some stupid story just so you are satisfied.

It's OK if colleagues which I know well and with whom I have a kind of bond ask things like that. But not as a conversation starter or to create such a bond.

And the list of people who cannot stand questions like that goes on: those with depression for whom every weekend is just a period of grayness, those with social anxiety...
I have personally worked with the founders of this website, as well as performed reviews on the site. It is most definitely not a scam.

The email you received tells me that they probably were not able to confirm that you are in fact a user of the software that you reviewed.
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There's a clever feature in the Optoma Pico Pocket Projectors where you can store presentations inside the projector, or on removable media that the projector can read directly. So you can present from the projector itself without an external device.

Of course, the projector currently doesn't run a general-purpose operating system, so your suggestion is more useful if you need to do something beyond showing slides or video.
I do have closed headphones, but I'd never heard of soundscapes. Definitely seems like ambient music would help out, thanks!
>The guy they purport to be an offender hasn't even been charged!

Courts are not the arbiters of truth, and they may claim to deal in justice, but really what courts can judge is tightly bounded by law and doesn't get into the full moral complexity of day-to-day life.
Ok, I see your points there.

I just really dislike this situation where it boils down to "(s)he said/(s)he said" and the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" flies out the window

Another thing I don't get is why they wouldn't prosecute now that the community is already fractured.
But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?
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For reference, one solar mass of radiation is about the same as the output from a gamma ray burst, or about 2000 times the output from a supernova.

Or in less sensical units, the energy from detonating 1% of our galaxy's mass worth of TNT.
For FOSS advocates, the proprietary nature is the criticism, as proprietary software has been shown time and time again to be harmful to users.
If I really wanted to waste my time, yes.

> A proof is a type.

Yes, Curry-Howard and all that.

If I just write a well-typed function which supposedly calculates pi, the rather trivial well-typedness is not informative by itself.

You're talking about adding reams of verbiage requiring expertise in using an advanced type system for executing a proof.

This isn't how static type systems are actually used and advocated in the field, and it is not feasible in general, only for toy, academic examples.

The proof code, which will exceed the size of the original function by at least an order of magnitude, could also be buggy. At the end of the day, it's just more code.

It reminds me of the argument fropm the Lisp camp: "Well, I could just write (supermacro ...) which implements any syntax and semantics whatsoever". (No, in fact you can't, and the proof is that you never actually will.)
I agree with you, but this post is not helping that. There's nothing here discussing how women can get into tech. It's incredibly disingenuous to scream "but women in tech!!" every time an issue like this crops up. This is an account of one person's experience with another person, not an objective look at sexual harassment in tech.
It's mainly derived from the frequency and magnitude of the wave. The frequency derives from the period of the binary system, which in turn derives from the masses of the two black holes. Once the period has been determined it's possible to solve for the original masses. Given those we can estimate the energy produced in the collision, compare that to the magnitude of the wave we received, and then estimate the distance (similar to estimating how far away a sound is by how loud it was). LIGO can also roughly locate the direction the waves come from by comparing when the signals are received at the two different detectors (LA and WA). If we add a third observatory at some point we should be able to triangulate much more accurately.
If a server can push backups, it must necessarily have credentials for and write access to that backup repository. If the server is compromised, that write access could be used to attack the backup repository as well. Pulling backups from a server removes the need for credentials or access to the backup repository.
Take ownership of all of your actions and take responsibility for all outcomes. If something did not work out do a root-cause analysis and try to do better next time. Read "The mythical man month" by Brooks to get some perspective to the daily problems.
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Just doing a brief visual comparison from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e785YnDmq0, the most immediate difference is the inversion of the housing and rotor shapes. Instead of a dorito shaped rotor like the wankel, it has a jelly bean shaped rotor. And instead of a jelly bean shaped housing, it has a dorito shaped housing.

Also, my memory of the workings of the wankel is a bit rusty, but I believe it is inherently balanced, so no counterbalance is necessary, but this one requires a counterbalance. On the other hand, unlike the wankel's one combustion chamber, this one has 3, so it doesn't need to deal with asymmetric heating issues. The combustion chambers themselves are very interesting. Due to the dorito shaped nature of the wankel rotor, there seems to be an inherent limit to the compression ratio because of the planar sides of the rotor can't get any closer to the wall of the housing. But on this one, the rotor can get completely flush with the housing, allowing more direct control over the compression ratio. Definitely an intriguing design.
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> How likely is Hastings to adopt that standard if he knew that it would apply to him too?

He probably knows it applies to him whether or not he adopts it for people below him: CEOs usually have contracts that not only state that a "if you decide you don't want me, you write me a big check to go away" policy applies to them, but actually spell out in fairly precise terms how big of a check that is.
Actually the current "development kit" starts at USD$30,000

http://liquidpiston.com/dev-kit/
I see a number of other comments offering clear, concise explanations of why a serial abuser might not successfully be charged, and in fact why abused individuals might be reluctant to come forward at all. There's some value right there!
Large source bases take time to build, and if they're large now, started before those features became widely available. But look around a bit -- you'll find plenty of equivalents. Chromium has its own smart pointers library, and there's a good chance that they'll start shifting to the standard stuff over time.
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You can buy an ODROID-C2 today, which A1100 systems are available ?
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phpMyAdmin is not automation. It's a less-painful manual interface.

Tedium in a GUI is still tedium.
Nonetheless I'm glad to have read it. It's a well-written and powerful statement.
No, thankfully not.

And yes, I understand that, the "immediately" was a bit knee jerk. But at least part of what you described is what I meant in another comment here: it should be part of both education and procedures to make immediate prosecution not only possible but a no brainer. Then we can avoid situations like this, which always reeks to me as "guilty until proven innocent"
It could be the smell of bad boundaries. But sometimes a data type can have many functions that work with its internals. The 75 functions might not sounds so bad if there is a good justification for their existence, and there are 7500 other functions which don't have to change which rely those functions.

At some level we need to actually implement things; we can't have abstraction all the way down!

I'm also reminded of Alan Perlis Epigram #9: "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."
The outright denials in this thread are one of the many reasons why people don't come forward immediately.
My wife has this really stupid (or brilliant?) question - if during the collision one solar mass turned into gravitational waves is it possible to create mass from gravitational waves?
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For those curious about the future of LIGO...

At present there are two LIGO facilities - one in Hanford, Washington and another in Livingston, Louisiana. This is necessary for both denoising (it's unlikely that a seismic event or random perturbation would effect both simultaneously) and triangulation via parallax.

Right now having just two facilities (that are relatively close together) limits localization to broad regions of the sky. Additional facilities are under way/in discussion for Europe, Japan, and India. This would significantly improve both the sensitivity of the array and its ability to localize events in a smaller region of the sky. Hopefully these projects get funded. LIGO stands to resolve some of the biggest open questions we have in cosmology.
You can decode the token without the secret. Generally JWT is not encrypted and you shouldn't put sensitive info inside. But you can't modify the token without knowing the secret, because you won't have a valid signature.

So I can hand out session tokens, and you can't modify the user ID or the expiration time unless you know the secret.
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Actually, the world is full of high-resolution continua in species, it's just not always present. Divergence occurs due to isolation or some other factor.

Horses and Zebras are different species but can interbreed. Lions and Tigers can interbreed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)

So the expected continuum you seek is totally there in tons of cases. It's just that there are cases where divergence gets too stark and intermediates die out.

When humans choose (for conceptual and communications' sake) to identify two very similar groups as different species versus different breeds, then we call mixes "hybrids" like this. When we think it's just a little too similar and we call them "breeds" of the same species, then we don't call mixes "hybrids" as often. This is just problems with the simiplisticness of language.
A very short one. Reasonable 10+ character passwords should remain out of reach for years.

Also, AFAIK there doesn't currently exist any very effective GPU cracking software for SSH passphrases.
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You just give them your bank info?
Wow, purchased, thank you!

Code starts out tedious too but is worth it by the end. I guess for any technical subject you have to make sure you cover sufficient preliminaries to get all your readers up to speed.
As you can see: many routing services are based on GraphHopper already ... but GraphHopper is not only a 'routing service', it is a library and a toolkit for various routing related operations to calculate isochrones or statistics of the road network, doing map matching etc
Pachyderm (YC W15) is hiring a lead Node.js or Rails engineer
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Right now Pachyderm's core technology just hit v1.0 and is production-ready. The next phase is to build a hosted service including administration panel, and advanced data visualization tools.

Salaries start at $100k and go up from there based on experience. We also offer significant equity, full benefits, and all the usual startup perks. This position is based in SF.

Positions:

* Web Services lead (full-stack).

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Our hiring process is focused around strong communication skills and simulating our actual work environment, not BS coding questions.

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What would data analytics infrastructure (namely Hadoop) look like if we rebuilt it from scratch today? We think it would be containerized, modular, and easy enough for a single person to use while still being scalable enough for a whole company. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes provide the perfect building blocks for us revolutionize data infrastructure!

Pachyderm is just 4 people right now, so you'd be getting in right at the ground floor and have an enormous impact on the success and direction of the company as well as building the rest of the engineering team.

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1) Communication: Both verbal and written, both input and output, and both logical and emotion-driven.

2) Proactiveness: Seeing issues before they happen, and acting on the right ones when needed.

3) Ask for and giving feedback: Both formal coaching, and informally with peers.

5) Starting with the End in Mind: Understanding why things are being done, and doing things with the end customer in mind.

6) Planning and Estimation: Much harder than it appears

7) Bias in Decision Making: Understanding the flaws in how people think (recency bias, overconfidence, anchoring, etc) and adjusting decision processes to handle them.

1-5 is mostly by practice. There are books that can provide guidance on 6 & 7, though there it's very much practice too.

It's also important to have good mentors every time one steps up in ability.
Great checklist.
Yes it is kinda."innocent until proven guilty". At least if you believe in rule of law.
Stoset is right. The reason why we do not notice them is due to the inverse square law. This event was 1.3 billion light years away. 1 Solar mass of energy being turned into a gravitational wave nearly instantly creates a very strong gravitational wave. But by the time it comes here, it deforms things by distances that we normally reserve for subatomic particles. What this finding shows is that this happens somewhat regularly in our Universe, it was just that we were previously unable to achieve the precision to measure such small deformations.
If this ever ships I'd be interested in getting one. I didn't realize anyone was actually making A1100 in boards you could actually buy, I thought they were all sold to integrators and they were only going to do the next iteration downmarket.
Inference, in the context of statistical analysis, refers to the task of understanding underlying properties of a distribution. This is the definition used by practitioners.

Machine learning practitioners care more about computational performance or generalizability beyond seen data than they care about properties of a data-generating distribution.

Your "bottom line" summary and repeated reference to algorithms as "bags of tricks" are reductionist statements suggesting you don't understand the nuanced, but important, differences between the fields.