skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that Stallman uses what you identify as name-calling all the time (cf. Amazon Swindle).

Also, the oft-repeated notion that "piracy" is a contemporary slur invented to associate copyright infringers with violence on the high seas is simply wrong. It's documented since 1603 (The Wonderfull yeare, T. Dekker), and is the term used by the 1883 Berne Convention. That's covers most of the history of the word in English usage.

Fine if you want to change the dialogue on IP, especially based on changing technology, but that doesn't justify rewriting history.
Would love to hear about your setup too.
Bayesian here. 'The theory that would not die' is a wonderful read, and notes how many scientists used Bayesian techniques (subjective probability) in a variety of contexts while the field was still unpopular (arguably, heretical) in the mainstream statistical community.

Bayes was nevertheless used to inform ballistics calculations, help crack the enigma code, or inform search patterns for lost nuclear weapons.

I don't think we have seen the end of Bayes, either, as it is very useful for uncertainty quantification in the engineering Sciences, machine learning techniques, or even discovering the Higgs Boson.
Taxing a non-resident citizen's foreign income? No it doesn't. Once you declare yourself a non-resident, you don't even have to file a return anymore.
I would assume that most companies that work remotely are flexible enough that you can squeeze a nap in.

(Waiting for the upcoming napjobs.io)
“Failure to report a crime”
By the way, I inquired him on this a few months back and the answer was: "I don't know enough certificates to think about the question. I leave that issue to others." and then, after I tried to explain a bit about it and the licenses in use, "I don't know enough about certificates to take any position about them."
Unfortunately, surcralose is the best sweetner for this purpose. Can you explain what would be better? It can't be processed by the human gut, its has no risk of toxicity in any reasonable dose, and very little of it is required for sweetness.
The problem is that it's not really a loaded question, but a valid response to the idea of an age cap amidst indefinite life spans. How do you propose capping the life span of an adult without the use of a termination agent?
As much as I agree with rms' philosophy, the word substitutions often feel like playground insults rather than useful rhetorical devices.

Digital Restrictions Management is about the only one that's really stuck: it's not contrived, it's more accurate and it fits the initialism.
This is a great comment and I totally agree both that there is almost never an actual "bad actor" and that being able to articulate a persuasive argument is highly valued in decision making. Maybe it is even a decent rule of thumb for coming to decisions under the inevitably imperfect conditions of the real world, but I do think that there are people who are just legitimately poor at articulating things, not because they are wrong or haven't thought things through enough, but simply because they are bad explainers, and that those people tend to be unfortunately undervalued.
Maybe it's just me, but I see the biggest problem in implementing a 2FA policy is the friction of the process. Using a password manager isn't as easy as remembering a single password. Using an offline manager isn't as easy as an online one. This, though ... this is the most over engineered, least user centered thing I've seen in a long time. I couldn't even begin to tell you the amount of task friction and sheer frustration that thing would be for someone like me who logs into and out of properties all day. All for the low price of $130, as if I don't get enough PITA for free.
What a histrionic, over-emotional mess these people are. With personalities like that, it's a wonder any meaningful work on Tor gets done.
Sure. See slavery, interracial marriages, racism in general, LGBT acceptance etc. The world is now more liberal not because people suddenly saw the light and became accepting, but because old people who would never accept these things fortunately keep dying off. A significant percentage of each new generation (not everyone of course) then just doesn't see what the hubub was all about, and they accept it as normal. Progress.

Also, last week's UK Remain vote is a pretty good indicator how old and young people think different. Young people today consider themselves more global, while old people are afraid to loose their national identity and pride. Both are OK, but as long as the young keep replacing the old the current path of humanity will, in a few generations perhaps, hopefully lead to global unification. On the other hand, if everyone suddenly became immortal it would put the world in stasis as the ones who currently hold the wealth (overwhelmingly the boomer generation) would cling to what they own and their ways of thinking instead of passing on the torch so to speak.

If humanity discovers immortality before we become an expanding multi-planet and post-scarcity society it will be an absolute disaster. Because immortality doesn't change human nature.

Imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Facebook quitter here. 6 years since I got rid of my account.

It wasn't hard at all. I keep in touch with the people that matter to me using email, phone calls, text, IM and Whatsapp (and then they went and got themselves acquired...)

It's arguable my social life might have been even better had I never left (missed invitations, lacking fodder for small talk with mutual acquaintances etc) but I clawed time back in my day for other things. I also don't have to worry about things like FOMO, social media generated envy, pointless social oneupmanship and the like. YMMV
And if you figure in the 10-25% of business they do laundering money you find where the rest of the margins are made up.

How is something this naive in WSJ?
The fruit in China, at least in the big cities, is pristine. Apples are individually wrapped, everything is generally impeccable. You can get cheaper beat-up fruit in some food stalls at a cheaper price if you want.
No, it doesn't? A Big Mac in China is ~40% cheaper than in the US.

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
they'd rather have 85 million from the EU than the 13 billion that England will no longer be obligated to give the EU? They need to spend the difference on math classes.
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Most modern recording studios store all equipment in sound-proof closets.

The challenge is keeping those closets cool with ventilation that does not leak sound.
>There is not really a UX flow apart from telling the user to recover the file from backup.

I agree with all your points, but just want to offer a possible UX solution:

Since the vast majority of data on people's hard drives are video and images, where minor data corruption results in (in most cases) just visual artifacts, we could have a pop-up dialogue that says: "A higher quality version of this file is found on your backup. Do you want to restore it?" when the corrupted file is a video or image and there's a confirmed backup of it.

If there's no confirmed backup then just silently ignore the corruption since the user won't notice anyways.
Private communications are also required for certain crimes, or to cover them up. Should we require that Apple monitor phone conversations for evidence of crime?
Was looking forward to see what you'd say here. :)

"Except for the fact that the USG actually buys into the concept of NOBUS"

This is true. I considered it given a subverted, but otherwise working, Tor network would be a win-win if CIA was subjected to pressure or wanted to de-anonymize opponents. Yet, the Tor project themselves answer this one: it's vulnerable to a global, passive adversary. NSA has painstakingly built partnerships with all kinds of countries that collectively do a giant SIGINT operation. Most of them probably don't like Tor. CIA or partners can get info from NSA on these things. So, CIA can already defeat Tor for some fraction of users since their partner is outside its probability of success. On top of whatever CIA might pull.

"accept the insecurity and try to control it socially (no CIA guys), or mathematically demonstrate infallibility. "

Well, remember that there's always the path of just clearly specifying the functionality plus implementing it in the safest way possible. We used to call this medium assurance. OpenBSD is the code-only version of that. Praxis w/ Ada/SPARK is the spec + code version. Only around 30-50% premium in labor/cost added doing these things despite immunity to all kinds of shit. They aren't going to do it, though. They never do. Leading to...

"I'm guessing that we'll see no push for formal verification :)"

...no push for that or even system-oriented languages and techniques that make the service immune to memory- or interface-level attacks that make up 80-90% of vulnerabilities. Not even that.
> If someone can't state their point without warping the very language they use to support their point

Part of Stallman's point is that the "ordinary" language that most people use to describe things is already warped. For example, Facebook describes itself as a "social network", when what it actually is is a network for harvesting data on people. The socializing people do on Facebook is a side effect, not the network's primary purpose.

Sometimes the only way to fight warped language is by warping it back in the other direction.

> it is literally his primary rhetorical device in nearly everything he's written over the last 3 decades

Yes, because he genuinely thinks that so much of the world and our language is already warped that he doesn't think ordinary discourse, using ordinary language, will have any effect. You might not agree with his viewpoint in toto; but his behavior is IMO understandable for someone who genuinely has that viewpoint.
Ya'all misunderstand. the problem - and OP's post theory - is the leadership vacuum that exists is one that threatens the United Kingdom. This is why you keep a constitutional monarchy around, a safeguard for times like this. If I'm certain of anything, it is that the EU will look aside as Britain enacts immigration reforms, because the alternative is the demise of the EU and the ascension of Russia as the center of gravity in Europe. The only other possibility is a shock and awe meeting of NATO countries to offer cohesion. This is a real crisis.
TBH I don't think London matters that much to him. The Tories' heartland is outside the capital, or on its borders, in areas that voted leave.
That's an insightful point. I also find the crude name-calling to detract from rather than support the message.

I remember once reading one of his posts on a topic where I was in strong agreement with his point of view before I began reading, but finished it alienated and pissed off. Thinking back later, I was surprised — nobody ever managed that.

If one's tone of writing is pissing off even those who agree with him, that's a complete failure of communication, and one needs to stop and re-evaluate one's communication style.

I haven't read any more posts from Stallman in almost a decade. Life is too short to read something that's more likely to annoy you than enlighten you.
And it too had more recent version. NXP still has a variant on their web site.

http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/...

(I think this is a variant too)
http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/...
Brexit is the best example so far.

That painful dissonance between so called reality and these probabilistic models.
Chicken, yes. Pork, no longer:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/27/national/health-...
so refreshing to see a humble presentation by an engineer and not a meme laden ego show, like you mostly see these days.
Liability. Same thing with why it can be hard to use open source in a large company. Liability.

If something screws up they dont want to be sued. If you use open source you can't sue someone if it breaks...but if I use Oracle I can get support and in extreme case sue for damages.
I think that's because vocal fry is usually seen as somewhat "out of place" in a female speaking voice. Few, if any, complain about male vocal fry because male voices are expected to be low and gravelly.

Preference against female vocal fry is just an nth-order effect from basic biology, and bias against females who use vocal fry is just an (n+1)th-order effect. A bias like that is often not a useful decision-making heuristic and should be checked accordingly.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your comments but it sounds like you share some of the outraged tone I read from the article you linked above, and I'm really confused as to why. It's just a thing some people do with their voices (sometimes but not always consciously) and some people do or don't like (sometimes but not always consciously). Are you saying people shouldn't care about vocal fry at all?

I also don't understand your hesitance to acknowledge the phenomenon of vocal fry. I'm not sure if these are entirely credible sources but here are some links that I found informative:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqW8jdlaSk "How Does Vocal Fry Work?"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
I'm a little unclear on UK government. Does the resignation of the prime minister require another election?

(If so, it could be spun as an "Are you sure?" remain/leave referendum and thus save face for a remain decision (making the assumption that that is the decision), although even in that case I doubt the EU will be all that welcoming.)
No. This was a protest vote and I seriously doubt the actual consequences are what the majority of voters actually want. A move by the Royal Family now would secure their position for a hundred years to come and keep the Kingdom together.
Not only brain plasticity. Biologically, I think many systems in our body stop being flexible.

For example, there's a recent discovery which shows with age we loose a particular population of naive T cells that binds to a really wide class of antigens [1]. If we were able to restore that population, I imagine it could potentially have big implications in how we age, as our immune system would keep learning forever.

SENS tries to answer lots of these questions too. I think brain plasticity or immune plasticity can be restored. It will just take time to unravel all the epigenetics, but some principles are already popping up.

[1] http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/17/059535
I have been struggling to identify why I dismiss Stallman and think of him as a idiot, and your post calls it out: the bullying. The assumption that if you don't 100% agree with him, you are an idiot. And the complete lack of empathy.
> Free movement of EU-citizens is a core obligation in the EU.

Until its not. The EU would be delighted to look the other way if it means keeping the Union together. Yes, it may be that immigration reforms have to be extended throughout, and that move would be welcomed in most EU countries.
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It's quite possible some of the Remain crowd were more scared of the economic impacts of brexit than of unchecked immigration (which to be honest was an extremely short-sighted EU policy. Anything left unchecked or without controls will be exploited).

The ultimate irony will be, when the exit conditions are negotiated, if a non-restrictive immigration policy with the EU somehow still makes it.
Video neglects to mention MySQL strict mode (which one should be using) and solves all these behaviors. They're explicit about this in docs, including what the default is:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-configuration-...

Auth is a pretty aside argument. Those sorts of auth are not a particularly common use case. All sorts of auth can go in front rather than be built in, and if those don't apply, sure, might affect your DB choice. Not inherently a reason to not use MySQL though.
I like to think that most people don't expect something like TOR to protect against a determined government. That doesn't make TOR useless, since I suspect that most people are not trying to be anonymous from intelligence agencies, only law enforcement agencies.
> Seems to be a win-win relationship.

In the short term, it may be. But RMS is looking at the long term. In the long term, he believes people will be worse off if they use Facebook than if they don't. I agree with him on that.
I found this talk extremely interesting despite being already somwhat familiar with the history of Bayesian methods; I heartily recommend watching it in its entirety regardless of prior familiarity with the subject.

The talk was also presented very well. It's almost novel nowadays for something like this to not be some sort of powerpoint presentation, and I can't say it suffered for it.
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> I think most people have a pretty good idea of how Facebook is making money.

I don't. I think most people don't even think about how Facebook is making money. They just see that it doesn't cost them any money, and they think "oh, great, I can connect with people for free!" and use it without considering the costs or the bigger picture. This certainly describes practically everyone I know personally who uses Facebook.
The article begins by conflating algorithms and training data and that becomes the "sticking point" in the reader's mind even though she later clarifies this fact soon after. This is not a surprise since this obfuscation helps to back the sinister and prosecutorial tone of the piece.
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Breadth and depth of fame are orthogonal.

Unless he does some remarkable philanthropy, Zuckerberg will be forgotten shortly after Tom from MySpace. Facebook isn't really fundamental to anything, it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well.

RMS may never be well known to the general public, but his reputation within his field is likely to endure in a manner similar to Euclid or Eratosthenes. GNU and the GPL are foundational elements of modern computing. Stallman had the fundamental insight that software is inherently political, then built a large part of the infrastructure necessary for humanistic software to flourish. The landscape of modern software would be utterly unrecognisable without the contributions of RMS.
The smart political calculation is probably to delay, delay, delay, then hold another vote that won't pass and move on with life. Unless they've totally given up on keeping Scotland in the UK I guess.
I can recommend Howards Georgi's Lie Algebras in Particle Physics which is a good introduction in the context of particle physics (yes, it covers both Lie algebras and groups).

No, it is nothing like the angular momentum of a spinning object. The name is rooted in a historical misconception. It is a form on angular momentum, which caused the misunderstanding. As of today, we still do not have a deeper understanding of spin in quantum mechanics: it's just some intrinsic angular momentum with SU(2) symmetry, and the value of angular momentum is in general different between particles (corresponding to the irreducible representations of SU(2), and the angular momentum is mostly 1/2 or 1 in units of reduced Planck constant except for some exotic/composite particles).
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It's also the best site on my phone deep in a train tunnel where there is some connection but very slow!
I agree with what Alex Goldman from Reply All has to say about this phenomenon and have little else to add at this point.
Oh, hadn't ever heard that. Thanks for the background.
I'd recommend "The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul" (readable online at [0]). It's wacky at times, and not deeply rigorous, but thoroughly enjoyable. But not a textbook.

[0] - http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox/
Whatever your opinion on Brexit, it would be a miscarriage of democracy to ignore the referendum's result, even if it is not strictly legally binding.

If Leave can win now, it will garner more support if the public's will is neglected.

Also the comment takes it as a foregone conclusion that triggering Article 50 would spell the political demise of the sitting Prime Minister. Isn't this a dubious assumption? We're seeing short-term market reactions today, but it is a very different thing to assert that the long-term impacts are as suicidal as is commonly believed.
So your argument against tracking and enforcing money laundering laws is that laws in general are silly because not everyone agrees with them?
Calling atheism a religious belief is as disingenuous as describing science as a religion.

It is possible to be religious in your science-based beliefs, but that does not make science itself a religion. If someone believes something only because "scientists" said so then they share many of the qualities of religions. I would shy away from calling even this a religion, however, as these people are willing to change their belief if the scientific consensus changes.

Furthermore, merely evangelising is not enough to make something a religious belief and it would be an abuse of the language to conflate them in that way. It is completely reasonable to evangelise scientific ideas, and it would be wrong to label that act as a religious one.

Atheism is not science, but it shares a common tenet; both atheists and scientists are willing to change their belief if shown appropriate evidence. Atheists can evangelise for many reasons, but those reasons need not be religious. For example, atheists may believe that religious teachings promote the worst aspects of tribalism and actively harm our society. An atheist can evangelise that the argument "My god is better than your god" is a pointless source of discontent in the world, and want to remove the source of that discontent, without being religious.

Of course, there will be people who shout "you're wrong because SCIENCE!!" but the religious nature of those people doesn't magically transfer to the beliefs they hold simply because they hold them.
RMS isn't writing for a general audience, he is writing for us. We hackers can spread the word in a palatable manner; RMS's job is to hold us to account, push us to the highest standards of ethical conduct and hold a mirror up to our hypocrisies.

The world needs pragmatists, but it needs zealots too.
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> Plenty of work makes it to the public domain; it just need to be noted as such by the creator, and creators do do that from time to time.

Every time I try and release my source code to the public domain, I invariably get people telling me it's not possible to do this due to laws in various countries, and that I should use the ISC/MIT license instead.

I've taken to releasing a lot of my work as "public domain where applicable; ISC where not."

> So I think copyright should be a bit more complex

My general idea of copyright would be that it's 14 years from the date of creation, with a one-time possible extension to 28-years that is not automatic (basically, what copyright used to be.)

The problem is abandoned works. If you produce a game on some volatile medium like a CD-R, then use DRM to protect it, it's quite possible that in 28 years, not a single working copy will exist. The only way it can enter the public domain is thus through breaking the law initially. And let's not even get into things like online servers required to use software =(

Ideally, there'd be a forfeiture of copyright for "abandoned works" (works the author will no longer sell to anyone); but I recognize that a legal framework for such a concept would be damn near impossible to create (you'd get artists saying, "sure I'll sell you a copy still ... for $100,000,000")