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> What evidence do you have of infiltration beyond the fact that you don't like what the speaker said?

There is no confirmation whether or not I 'like' the authors opinions or essay. Careful not to fall into the same kind of dismissiveness your attempting to criticize.

There is no shelf life on entryism. Disgruntled ideologues live out there lives trying to subvert and destroy other peoples hard work and turning that destruction into personal gain. Some of these people have managed to cling onto the tech and hacker community and make 'public personalities' out of themselves. There biggest platform is conferences and public speaking events. Where they can orate carefully constructed monologues without any scrutiny or disagreement from the audience, often with a hansom speaking fee.

"Lets institute a new behaviour code based on vague pleasantries and inclusively"

This looks like a variation on the Codes of Conduct strategy of subversion and political purging that entryists have tried to use for the past few years. It has been an unsuccessful strategy but they have succeeded in outing themselves and there intentions.
I think this is the paper, which oddly isn't linked in the article:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01618
I'm experimenting with a hybrid approach, where the server injects a JSON string into a hidden div's data attribute, containing all the data the front end would have traditionally received through an ajax call on initialization.

It's no ideal, as the initial DOM render isn't fully populated, but it's much faster than waiting for another round trip to the server to populate the view.

Here's an example sketch using vue.js (data is in #game-data div): https://game-collector-staging.herokuapp.com/
I agree, but I wonder about how many people can be induced to devise a custom block cipher and somehow communicate an implementation of it to their communication partners in a way that isn't systematic and doesn't depend on the security of other ciphers. (Presumably you lose the marginal benefit if you make a popular "make your own block cipher and share it with your friends" tool!)
I have read Derrida, Kristeva and Baudrillard, in French. Not all of their work, but enough to know it's a lot of bullshit. Derrida is extremely brilliant, but says nothing but banalities (sometimes funny ones, cf. "differance"). Baudrillard has interesting, poetic intuitions, that rest on nothing and take all of their value from their polemic content. Kristeva is not very intelligent, crazy at times, and guilty of the worst of the worst approximations and using mathematical concepts she doesn't understand, to explain / illustrate philosophical concepts she doesn't understand either.

You assert, without proof or reference, that anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that Social Text's editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's insistence; but even if it were true, what would it prove, besides the fact that said standards were weak in the first place? And why didn't said editors accept to publish explanations after the fact? Had they been even a little concerned with the truth (as all philosophers should be) they would have been very happy to deconstruct a hoax, them being the victims notwithstanding.
In comparison to janitorial, customer service, retail sales, garbage disposal, truck driving, etc etc.

There are waves of people that would quit their job for a cozy clerical/administrative work that was cost-effective for their suffering. HOw much I dont know.
Agree, 100%. E.g. numpy in a virtual environment can be a real pain. Best case, it takes a bit longer to install. Worst case, it's on a system that's missing some OS specific dependencies. "Works for me" is not okay for stuff on PyPI.
True, but how many devices will allow you to install and use that system without being forced to add blobs?
The closure description sounded more like memoization.
The point is not that "postmodernity has no cultural or intellectual value". Indeed, even a generator as exemplified in the article can be said to have such value.
Since the end of the XIXth century it has become clear, albeit conveniently ignored, that the value of interest is crucially practical. Hic rhodus, hic salta. When it's not, aside from bringing some short-lived distraction, as any other consumption, it validates and reinforces a status quo that, judging by the state of the world, is not conducive to common happiness or productivity. To say the least.
On what basis do you make such an unequivocal, authoritative proclamation?
Why would that matter? They can set up a similar service and use the wosign ca and Mozilla/google wouldn't know anything is amiss
In a sarcastic way, yes. Obviously it's a problem that self-propagates and creates new problems. But it works for the "people in power"; those who wield influence in the literary field.
Irigary is the one who called E=mc^2 a sexist equation, right?

No further questions, your honour.
Your comment mirrors an observation of mine (although I am a native English speaker):

Trying to read the generated article gave me a very similar feeling compared to the feeling I get when trying to read an article that's much too difficult for me. I read a sentence or two and try to grasp at the meaning of the sentences and how they relate to each other. I reread these words a few times, and eventually draw out a little bit of understanding and move on to the next sentences.

In this case with the generated text though, eventually my mind concludes that it's all nonsense and gives up on finding any meaning. With a real text, hopefully, I'd derive more meaning little by little as I struggled on.

What's interesting to me here is that a nonsensical text can produce the same "in over my head" feeling as a highly intellectual and difficult text. It seems to imply that we could be fooling ourselves when reading difficult texts - perhaps a text is all nonsense, or perhaps it's brilliant, but we have little way to tell.
Are you sure about that? Do you have an example of someone getting prosecuted for posting security footage of someone breaking into their own home? Not a chance, whe there the footage is the front porch or the bathroom.

It's all about expectation of privacy. You are not protected from invasion of privacy in a public place, because there is no expectation of privacy there. And I expect a jury would also find that there is no expectation of privacy when you break into someones home and use the bathroom or steal their phone/camera and take it to your own home.
>If is the bigger question.

Personally, I think it's closer than self-driving cars. I suspect they can take over the interstate routes fairly quickly just by using some roadside land as "ports" to transfer control to human drivers. That would get the vast majority of the miles automated without tackling the harder, non-interstate, parts.
Is there a more detailed paper describing the algorithm? The description is very vague in the article. When they pick the two points, is there an evaluation on how much "diversity" increases w/r/t each of the three possible operations, and that's how they choose?

edit: thanks @q_revert for linking the paper
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Salt is an ingredient in pasta, mixing extra salt and pasta quickly makes it unpalatable. Adding vanilla extract to chocolate ice cream is similarly nasty. Now sure, a hint where it's hard to tell in full chocolate or less chocolate, less vanilla and less cream to make that more bland helps. As does mixing some milk etc. But the full flavors don't mix well.
The programs are medically regulated and means tested. If "basic income" means anything, they aren't basic income.
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You underestimate the selective use of law by the elites. How many bankers are behind bars? Do you see anybody punished for starting a war under false pretenses? for mass surveillance? for lying to Congress about it?
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It's just a terrible article.

> But unlike almost every other scheme to make roads safer, Vision doesn't try to blame the victim or the perpetrator.

Oh right, because the car safety tech responsible for the lion's share of the lives saved over the past few decades is all about blaming the perpetrator.
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For anyone who doesn't know the backstory on this already: WoSign (and, after WoSign quietly acquired it, StartCom) were distrusted by Mozilla for mismanagement ranging from backdating certificate to bypass crypto requirements to accidentally mis-issuing certificates.

It is unlikely that WoSign or any CA run by WoSign will ever fully compatible with browsers in the future.
I thought it was copy/paste from the site.. until I realized he was serious. Poe's Law in action.
They are already distrusted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12787029
I misread Thief as Thiel. Now, THAT would have been a great story.
>[disability is] where someone decides it's no longer viable to work

How did you conclude that viability to work is a "decision"?

You also imply that it's better to have medicare than any insurance through a job. Medicare actually really sucks compared to many alternatives. Lots of providers won't even let you in the door with it.
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You don't really need to be a mathematician to do it. All it takes is patience and being good at spotting patterns and observing in general. My brother-in-law solved one before the Internet era all by himself. It took him few months, but he eventually did it.
It's really difficult to understand why anyone would want to do this. Unless they were working with Let's Encrypt directly I really don't see how this could ever be acceptable.

Why would anyone do such an obviously bad thing and slap their company information in the whois?
I think we need an official roadmap. I think the public deserves a direct voice in guiding the direction of the country. At the very least, I think we need to set in stone a clear vision of what milestones we want to achieve as a nation.

My entire lifetime, our leadership has repeatedly demonstrated it is incapable of moving us in any single direction long enough and far enough to be meaningful (aside from war, perhaps). Let us choose the direction; let them work-out the implementation.

To some extent the back and forth you talk about is evidence that the public doesn't agree on the direction to take.
Loved this article. I especially liked the 'Explaining programming concepts to kids' section.

Please keep us posted about what your kid is building next.
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Which reminds me of this classic http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt
I meant the coding style, not the threading model. Like the author talks about, one of the nice things about the threaded languages is that you basically just write normal, synchronous looking code and get asynchronous results. async/await lets you do basically the same thing.
I'm not sure why you would think it was less mentally taxing.

I've worked on farms, and in offices. The offices are much more mentally taxing, and for me much more likely to lead to mental issues, and depression.
>Could these be explained by the dramatic rise in psychologists and chiropractors that have started diagnosing people that would not have sought or would not have been eligible for disability benefits in times past?

Yes, combined with the welfare-to-work program implemented under Clinton. In that program, welfare recipients who were unable to find jobs were pushed onto disability, since disability is paid out by the federal government. Thus, Clinton could say he 'ended welfare as we know it' and state politicians could boast that they reduced unemployment (which is paid for by the states), since unemployment statistics don't account for workers not in the workforce.

Here's an article from a few years back about this:

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

As mentioned in other comments, this is America's first foray into UBI. While not stated outright, the push for putting 'unemployable' individuals onto disability is a clear admission that automation and offshoring has created post-work economy for the least educated and the least mobile.
That's basically right. He does some fancy stuff like DMA from the cartridge to VRAM to make it fast enough, but basically he just copies each frame into memory on the CGB and then swaps the background being displayed to make it appear. It takes two V-Blanks to copy an entire frame, so it runs at 30 FPS (While the CGB runs at about 60FPS).
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Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?
Sure there are sites like Upwork or Freelancer, but they limit the amount of jobs that you can bid for. I'm not sure if I could successfully get jobs there, so I don't want to waste any bids. People jump on any good projects like crazy. Aside from that, I've been told to scout out local business, but for the moment lets just say that one's a no. How can I get freelancing jobs as a developer?
In countries with such massive inflation, distrust and unstable currency, doesn't cryptocurrency actually offer a big advantage/escape over the status quo?

I assume this doesn't happen because network access isn't pervasive enough across the lower class.

Any insight in why this is not happening?
Generally, being yourself victimized by a criminal does not entitle you to turn around and victimize that criminal. If you use your phone's surveillance features to attempt to locate the criminal and facilitate its return, you're almost certainly fine. But if it's clear that your intention was not to recover your phone or identify the criminal, but instead to persistently invade that person's privacy, it's less clear to me that you're safe.

It may depend a lot on what state you're in. There are states with stronger statutes about camera surveillance and invasion of privacy than others.

(I'm talking about the US; I don't know what the situation is in other countries --- or rather, I know even less about it).
I'm in the same familial boat. Have you looked into lithium supplementation yet?
I mean if you manufactured it yourself, I think you can be fairly certain that it isn't sending your stuff to the cloud.
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1. A program from 30 years ago will compile and run.

2. As a research student your first program is likely to be a F77 program written by your professor or an older colleague.

3. A library from 30 years ago can be easily wrapped into a modern program, compiled and run.

4. Arrays are really the most important thing for this sort of programming and since F90 array level operations have been baked into the language.

5. It is fairly trivial to write fast Fortran.

6. Fortran is much easier to use for numerical stuff than c++
While interesting, I don't think you can expect that list to be comprehensive or kept up to date. For example, Facebook (as of this writing) has 1.79B monthly active users[1], well over the 1B listed on that page. I also assume Yelp (not listed) has over 1M active users.

[1] http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
Are they distrusted by iOS and macOS?
Ah, okay. I might have missed the sarcasm - obviously, with me being already sceptical of the person who'd write such a thing, I interpreted the text in a different way.
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My 2 cents. I would consider myself a JS expert as I have writen AngularJS and RequireJS clones. Personally, I don't agree with the path that OS JS dev has gone in recent years. The reliance on build systems and transpilers are fundamentally anathema to the spirit of simplicity and low barrier to entry that attracted me to the language and ecosystem inn the first place.

I understand that as we have moved from web pages to web apps the increase in complexity was inevitable, but I question a lot of the tools being used now. For one thing, once we moved to creating full applications using JS, one of the concerns that tooling moved to address was maintainability. This is why MV* caught on and destroyed JQuery as a viable option for many projects. That being said, Angular pretty quickly swapped one kind of maintainability problem (refactorability) for another (over-abstraction and cyclomatic complexity).

As for the dev tooling (webpack and company), one of the reason I avoid a lot of them is in my experience they can get in the way of maintainability. For example, I recently tried to pick up a 3 month old project in Android Studio and it took me around 3 hours just to get it to compile again because of updates and other tooling complexity. This NEVER happened using Eclipse. The same thing is happening and will happen when the apps being built today get dumped on some poor sod 3-5 years from now.

Lastly, an example from my job. I was recently asked to update the verbiage on a sign in form built ~13 years ago. The devs decided to use some java framework that had buzz at the time named JATO. Jato literally doesn't exist anymore and building it is basically impossible. This is to say nothing of modifying it as all documentation has literally disappeared from the web. The devs picked JATO b/c they thought it would be easier to modify and maintain. Exactly the opposite has happened. They could easily have written the form (literally two input boxes and a submit) using plain JSP. If they had, that code would still be useful today.
Intriguing idea. First thought is that it may simplify server-side rendering with data fetching.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12582534

tl;dr - WoSign/StartCom are no longer trusted as a CA (at least by Firefox)
“We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction. It was not discussed. Use chemical weapons against the world? Is there anyone with full faculties who would do this? Who would use these weapons when they had not been used against us?”

Is there any sincere military historian who questions that Hussein used chemical weapons first against Iran?
There is no diagnosis of disability. One person diagnosed with high blood pressure could be on disability while her identical twin in precisely the same condition living in a different area could be denied it.
This is an opinion post by someone named 'Joel Kotkin' whose main theme appears to be 'those minorities are going to regret voting Democrat'. He also writes "Rather than pushing growth, they have placed their emphasis on ever-increasing subsidies for the poor, including those working in expanding low-wage service industries." and given that the actual data shows that California's GDP is doing just fine (4.2% growth, over 2x the national rate) I'm not sure why anybody would take the rest of the article seriously.
But anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that Social Text's editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's insistence.

Consider that there may be an intrinsic flaw in your field when the publication of factual claims relies entirely on social pressure. Consider that there is a flaw when claims cannot actually be "debunked," but rather merely receive counter social pressure.

The work of many of late Twentieth Century philosophy by figures such as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigary, Julia Kristeva, Jean Baudrillard, and many many more deserve serious studied contemplation...They are not randomized strings of insider shibboleths.

Listing authors in your field is literally a shibboleth.

Occasionally propagating "postmodern" meme generators is a childish form of territorial demarcation

Your defense of postmodernism is to attack opponents and a list insider authors. Consider that those are classic territorial tactics.

From your defense, postmodernism seems akin medieval theologians debating the nature of the soul. There is a lot of internal self-promotion and politicking, and a lot of attacking outsiders, but nothing of actual use to the real world.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204132

In the long run: indefinite (likely permanent) distrust by Mozilla is probably the death sentence for any CA.
(anecdote: over the last 15 years I've met over a dozen people who were and/or still are like this)

I'm advocating for turning anecdotes such as this into data by actually performing a study.
Where's the "predictive" part? Just visualizing twitter networks isn't actually a prediction.
actually Google Trends predicted it:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20hillary...

it predicted obama as well in 2012

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vote%20for%20romney,...
This could develop further. Reminds me of TOM Skype: Chinese users are redirected from skype.com to the chinese-characteristics website skype.tom.com which serves a censorship-enabled version of skype, see https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/tom-skype-dead-long-l...
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I just tried this program "sum (replicate n 0)" and it didn't leak at all on n=10000000000

Full source: https://gist.github.com/k-bx/4a7729bcf2386583583b95bed7d4f26...

Also, Haskell has a nice LANGUAGE Strict pragma since recently. Won't save you from things like lazy pairs or other imported things, of course, but at least can be good for one-file scripts where you want to solve Rubic's cube.
Which guideline, flamewar?
Business as usual in the dirty cert industry

https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html
Having both kmh and mph in two sentences next to one another is very confusing, articles should use one or the other as a primary unit and include the other, if needed, in parenthesis or an aside.
And that requires a gym membership.

There is no such thing as a standalone sauna that's not also a pickup spot, though would love to be proven wrong.
Fair enough, poor choice of words.

It is still the case that to qualify for SSDI in the US you need a diagnosis from a doctor of a condition that prevents working. I'm wondering if SSA would accept assessments made by chiropractors or psychologists, neither of which are medical doctors.
Really? I mean it uses some slightly unusual words (shibboleth, demarcation, unbecoming) but these are hardly technical terms, you'll find them in stories for children or teenagers. There are no complex or difficult sentences in there.
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Interesting how Hillary is the only one who was referred to by first name. "Vote for Clinton" didn't register as much as "Vote for Hillary"
I wonder what people with literary theory degrees make of RFCs. Much the same I imagine.
They are being too restrictive on what they define as a virtual community. For instance the forums in city-data.com has more than a million members. Same with bodybuilding.com
5 tiny stickers for €7?!

It's not my webcam needs covering after reading that —it's my keyboard!

Here's an alternative:

Get any kind of peel-off sticker or label. Punch a hole in it with a hole punch. Collect punched out section. Peel off backing. Stick over webcam.

Approximate cost: Dozens of 'webcam covers' for the price of the original sticker or label (depending on size).
"Which company was this?"

There's no way I would name the company, it would be a breach of confidentiality. If there was something tantamount to whistle-blowing, possibly, but there was nothing illegal going on.

"What is F50?"

'Fortune 50'
What types of empirical evidence have been previously used to justify theories of philosophy or cultural criticism? Some fields don't admit themselves to the scientific method because what's being studied is inherently subjective. That being said, it's a common reductive meme that art or literature can be interpreted to mean "anything"—I've never taken a course in literature or art criticism that allowed for interpretations of a work not backed explicitly by the source material.
They can afford to leave because of 500+, they are leaving because they don't want to work there.