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> this is a strawman argument that those who wish to dismiss any criticism of the vaccine industry

There we go, the usual methods to discredit science at play again.

Firstly, no you are absolutely wrong, in that people directly claim that vaccines are a scam and that they kill babies/children.

Next, you are doing the usual spread of FUD, inadvertently or intentionally, which isn't my concern. Either way you are a vector for memes that harm humanity and so are culpable.

> Understanding infectious diseases and taking proper personal hygiene measures along with having clean drinking water and plumbing/sewage had much more to do with the decline in infectious diseases than vaccines ever did. The effectiveness of vaccines is highly overstated.

What?

The only way its overstated is if you don't know what you are talking about.

Firstly : Small pox is not cured by clean hands.

Secondly: No one is giving vaccines anything more than their due. Well until anti vaxxers showed up, and once you have a radical voice shouting about something, the only signal you get is high contrast and caricratured.
Before vaxxers showed up, vaccines were generally a part of a larger series of protections to help human beings. They were pretty awesome, and awesome in their own right.

This didnt mean that people stopped valuing hygiene or its place in healthcare. One of the most famous recent examples going around in literary articles has been about how doctor hygiene standards have gone up after they saw what kinds of germs they were carrying.

> Pharma companies have billions if not

Do you think pharma companies, doctors and scientists exist in a vaccum?

They are governed by medical bodies, malpractice laws, and by the larger will of the people.

And Doctors have their licenses and their liberty at risk if they poison you.

If a drug or technique was found to be dangerous, the people who pushed it on the population while knowing the consequences get fined in billions, and more.

> there is a very long list

Please share this list, I would like to see it.

> There is convincing evidence from scientists like a certain CDC whistleblower

Please go ahead and share the papers and peer reviewed articles showing this to be true.

> when there's not been an equivalent explosion in those infectious diseases

What?

They've changed the method and medium to give people their doses. As kids in India we used to have to get several painful injections, which often left scars. Theyve found other ways to get it done today.

> double blind trials

What? I'm going to test a vaccine on an infant by giving another infant the fucking black death!??!?

What the heck are you on?

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Look if you believe this stuff, and actually are fair and credulous - spend the exact same amount of effort and time research WHY vaccines work instead of the brain manipulative stuff left out by anti vaxxers.
ephesoft seems to use this for classifying and data extraction from documents.
From the HN guidelines:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
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Simply incredible.

She got a 'charming' apology letter only because she's famous and the US got caught with its pants down. To think that this happens every day to people without a platform.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
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Good to know, thanks for that link. Didn't know of empireflippers.
Most aren't. The good ones are.
I really don't understand how Malta came so much further (2nd place) to Cyprus (35th)! They are more or less same thing. Same climate, same language situation, both in EU, similar immigration and tax systems. Except Cyprus is bigger geographically and in population so is more diverse and there are more things to do, on the other hand, it is further away from most places you want to fly, 3-4 hour flights are norm which would be 2-3 hour from Malta. Malta is in Schengen, which is a strong plus though - is this just that?
I'd suggest http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ if you're looking to use Python for web development.
> Maybe next time don't use a language without memory safety to parse untrusted input.

Untrusted input is safely parsed by programs written in languages without memory safety all the time. In fact, most language runtimes with memory safety are implemented in languages _without_ memory safety.

What's to criticize here is parsing untrusted input in the same memory space as sensitive information.
> They should be telling them to reset passwords and get users to do similar.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but:

This isn't just about passwords. Any memory from those proxy servers could have been dumped into these responses, meaning plaintext content of all kinds. The data needs to be purged in addition to telling customers that everything they did in these months has a chance of being out there in plaintext in the hands of random people.
There's a way to kill it. Legalize it, in two years round up everyone who set up a legitimate businesses to use it and jail them.
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Relaxing disk commits is a quick route to data loss. Might as well use mongo at that point.
Having grown up in a religious household first 22 years of my life I had a lot of trouble with anxiety when I stopped believing in god. I could not continue studying science and believing in god without feeling like a hypocrite (not to say those who do are ).

Meditation and being in the moment or at least trying to be in the moment has helped me a lot. There may not be a rhyme or reason to life but that doesn't mean you can't create one and have fun while doing so.
> I argue that political love needs to be particularistic in this way, but that care must always be taken to harness that particular love to good moral principles and keep people moving back and forth. Good political rhetoric does this instinctively, and I study many cases. Think of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. If Rawls had written it as an abstract structure of principle, the civil rights movement would never have succeeded. It was the soaring particular poetry, the rhythm of the language, its ability to capture Biblical images of love and justice, that made hearts leap out of their narrow breasts and soar toward something beautiful. Good thinkers have to do this each in their own context.

What? Never would have happened? So Malcolm X was totally lying when he described [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kf7fujM4ag ] how it was bubbling at every street corner, while King and others squabbled about money, and that it was for fear of people walking on Washington and shutting it down that suddenly it was channeled into some kumbaya style thing? I'm not a huge fan of his, maybe I find him racist, I don't know, but I can't deny the principledness and energy, and I find his version of events way more realistic than "an impassioned speech making people realize they didn't want to be treated like shit anymore".

But actually, I quoted the above because it reminded me of a thinker who might disagree:

> What frightened me in your essay was the gospel of love which you begin to preach at the end. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well-known characteristics of all oppressed people. They grow out of suffering and they are the proudest possession of all pariahs. Unfortunately, they have never survived the hour of liberation by even five minutes. Hatred and love belong together, and they are both destructive; you can afford them only in the private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.

-- Hannah Arendt, Letter to James Baldwin, November 21, 1962
Wow,we need to bring back the "Save The Rainforest" awareness full force. I see people talking reforestation and that's good and all.. But the tragedy of the rainforest isn't so much that "now there are no trees here". It's the loss of the biodiversity and ecosystem. You can replant a forest, but you can't replant The Rainforest.

Man, I love the rainforest. Why don't we hear about it as much? It's been a dream of mine to visit the Amazon. Now that I have the means I really need to get down there.
Why can't you put it in an env var before calling the bundler?
Just curious, Wouldn't that give his father the right to claim some kind of compensation as an early investor?
As an Australian...

I'm never going to the US, no way fuck that.
I'm not a big fan of type annotations because the code easily turns unreadable which is not what I expect from Python code.

But for larger projects type checking is valuable. Types introduce additional contracts between components to manage and control the overall complexity of the system.

For small scripts and self contained applications I regard type checking as a burden. For larger projects not.

Pylint is a valuable tool to detect typical errors but does not check types. Regard a function which returns the sum of two given arguments. It will work with both arguments being integers and for both being strings. PyLint will not complain here, but if your code uses this result you might trigger errors much later during progam execution which are hard to detect or understand without type checking.
In modern Danish they are called "kirsebær" (kirsu ber, ciris berries)
Very cool, followed the instruction and got it working! What's the license ?
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Evil god is great and no god is bleak? I'd think the opposite.
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Sorry. Nine months. That's all the non-LTS versions get.
It's convenient for content publisher and reduce infrastructure costs a lot. Just have the authenticated/editing part served directly and the published content trough cdn.
There have been several image parsing exploits. Your browser could load a bad image and get owned.
I have huge respect for taviso and his team. Their track record in security work is so impressive. They are without a doubt extremely capable.

However, I am always wondering: are they really globally unique in their work and skill? So that they are really the ones finding all the security holes before anyone else does because they are just so much better (and/or with better infrastructure) than anyone else? Or is it more likely that on a global scale there are other teams who at least come close regarding skill and resources, but who are employed by actors less willing to share what they found?

I really do hope Tavis is a once-in-a-lifetime genius when it comes to vulnerability research!
I think that's a lazy argument. Just because Google does one good thing (finding the vulnerability) doesn't make all their actions good. The affected party (in this case Cloudflare) has incentive to handle the situation in a way that's limit the damage to their customers and their customers customers (which are the ones affected). The 'security researchers' (in this case Google) doesn't have that incentive. In many ways they even have the opposite incentive, to disclose while it's still active so they can get larger recognition. The release rules aren't made to limit harm to the world, but to limit harm to Google.

Tavis Ormandy linking to leaked data to settle some personal groll is a pretty good example how much they really care about data leaks. I guess when you've already leaked all your customers data to intelligence agencies around the world while moving it between data centers it's hard to keep any form of standards.

Want to actually argue your idea with any sort of competition I suggest going outside HN.
For our small team, we found that type annotations are useful as a substitute of documentation and it cut our docstrings at least by half. For most small and well-named API functions, we don't need docstrings anymore.

We're big fans of type aliases also. For example, API functions do not return an int, they return a PK. They do not return a str (or Text), they return a URL.

We're also heavy users of typing.Optional to mark parameters or return values that can accept and return None.

We tried mypy but it failed miserably on our large codebase and frankly, with our large test suite, we never had a typing error found in production so I think it's not a good investment of our time.

I'm eager to test type annotations with our next intern to see if it speed up the ramp up process.
Finally read them a few months ago. A fantastic read.
"we’ll do something about it,” Mr. MacLennan said. “If that’s accurate, it’s not acceptable.

It is absolutely not acceptable and I'm optimistic that we will see the day when MacLennan, Trump and similar will be imprisoned by the people. It is our right and duty to imprison them.
P.S.

I also strongly recommend the excellent 1988 paper by Robin Gandy, The Confluence of Ideas in 1936, published in The Universal Turing Machine A Half-Century Survey (ed. Rolf Herken), 1995[1] (pp. 51-102).

Gandy gives a full historical background of who knew what in 1936, what the general state of knowledge was at the time, and the reception of both Church's and Turing's papers.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Turing-Machine-Half-Century...
Yes, apple does optimize. I'm not disputing that; neither starting a silly "apple vs" debate. I am no fan boy of either mac or PC - I just use whatever is best.

The point is, that "equivalent software" runs faster. I would wager that if Final Cut Pro was for Windows, and you run it on the very same MacBook12, it would run faster on Windows. Despite this, using Final Cut Pro an example is a bad one, because it was developed by Apple itself (and therefore assumed to be highly optimized to the OS) and it is not available for windows.

It is more useful to compare an equivalent 3rd party (neither made by apple or microsoft) application. I'm a developer, so I use a lot more software than just "apps" so maybe if you try to use a wider set of software, the difference in platforms will become apparent.

Admittingly, I don't have numbers. But I don't need numbers, because you can feel the difference as a user. Install it and see for yourself!
> were able to leak the first bit of memory for requests

It's some kilobytes of browser requests or server responses that are leaked in the samples I have seen, if I remember correctly. Much more than "the first bit."

Just to be clear.
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When I lived in a bigger city I was constantly commenting on how it always seemed to be the most left leaning people saying things like "someone should shoot that bastard" in reference to some politician or another.

It's interesting to note that the word "fired" in an employment context is the same word used to describe what occurs when a gun is operated.
No he is definitely not alone, some of them work for other security companies, for antivirus companies, some of them are selling found vulnerabilities
Ha! Excellent point!
or clearing all the cache of Cloudflares website. I think that's do-able.
Perhaps it would look like this: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
You don't need to let it control your DNS, you can just set wildcard MX.
It sounds a lot like you are looking at your own life by living it and looking at your that of your parent's from an overview of their past. Ask them what they were doing and how they felt at your age at the start of their career and trying to raise a family and I'll bet they had the same anxieties that you do on a day to day basis. I don't like this habit online discussions have of blaming Baby Boomers for "everything" because they usually aren't here to give their side of the story.
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and in Python >=3.3, IOError is an alias for OSError.
The fact that so much rainforest is gone just makes it more important to save what's left. "They must be allowed because we did it" is a short sighted argument with these stakes.
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The first example image in the linked article shows a conversion from a table with some empty cells. It looks fine.
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You are asking for deleting petabytes of data. Some sides are interested in owning such data.
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If you just need a Rust-like Result type for Python: https://github.com/dbrgn/result
That does seem strange that there's such a difference between the two! It'll be a combination of many factors, Schengen would be a big one, which probably makes for a better expat community.
At this moment problem is not in Cloudflare's side, search engines crawled tons of data with leaked information, even though Cloudflare drops their caches, data is already in 3rd party servers (search engines, crawlers, agencies)
Some British remember a little too well perhaps ... bloody immigrants.
Without wishing to sound too melodramatic, a complex problem like this one should be the least of your concerns online. Part of my job over the past twenty years has been auditing website code, and I can tell you there are online stores that do things that would absolutely terrify people if they knew what was happening to their data - on one site everyone's creditcard information was being emailed to the site owner's Hotmail account so he could put payments through the till system in his shop.

If you're worried about your credit card data just don't put it in to a website you don't know is secure. If it isn't Amazon, Stripe, Paypal, <your preferred payments provider> etc, just don't use it.
I thought it said “you responded” instead of “he responded.” You’re right.
Because contexts matter.

Because reputation matters.

Because ideologically-driven "research" often shows both conscious and unconscious bias. (For a fascinating study of the latter, look up the case of "Clever Hans".) Forewarned, a closer examination of the piece for flaws is highly advised. The narrator has proved unreliable in past.

And because it seems of late the practice of giving the benefit of the doubt seems to have presented itself as problematic in instances.

Yes, it's possible for even the most unreliable of sources to be correct on occasion. That would be an exception to the rule, and still not provide a basis for trust, reputation, or authority.
I haven't for once thought about cost or shareholder value in the last week. Been working round the clock to clean up and evaluate impact.
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Thanks for the pilot wave mention, that made for an interesting read: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-ga...
I understand and we have been and are mining data we have to look for that having happened.
> "static typing only catches trivial errors",

That's partly because we tend to use the same types for everything. For instance in a spreadsheet you can subtract a column number from a row number and get no complaints even though the difference between the two quite likely makes no sense. If you have a separate type for row numbers and column numbers such mistakes can be caught.
Both SHA-3 and BLAKE2 are not susceptible to length extension. Keyed BLAKE2 is actually just a prefix MAC (which would be completely unsecure with SHA-1/2 / classic Merkle-Damgard).
I agree the deeper part of the thread was useless. That's why i stopped participating. However:

All i did was try to give him the benefit of the doubt until it was clear he was trolling. If things like this bother you, i recommend actually taking steps that discourage people from arguing in bad faith.

It is extremely hard to determine when someone is just ignorant, or when they're taking the piss; but when it's clear the latter should not be acceptable.
There's a certain cleverness in then rendering that "Eve tempted Adam to take her cherry" (a euphemism for deflowering, ie taking a person's virginity).
That's Adobe. Look at their other formats, and PDF seems to be one of their better ones. Compare to SWF, PSD, AI and so on.

PDF is the successor of PostScript. PostScript is a stack-based programming language where anything can happen, while PDF enforces some document structure and metadata structure on top of it, so you can e.g. at least determine where pagebreaks are, without having to interpret ("run the code of") the whole document.

Still, PDF is simpler than PostScript in the same sense that XML is a simplification of SGML. Jumping from PDF to a well-designed format would be like jumping from XML to JSON or S-Expr.
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You're lucky if you live a life where you can always enforce your rights. But at least her blog post shows that is not always the case. Maybe you've also heard other stories. For instance, I remember a story where a western female tourist got raped, went to the police and immediately was sent to jail, because her "crime" of having extramarital affairs was way worse to the autorities than raping a woman.

A simpler example that much more people experience at least once in their life: A customer comes to you and treats you like sh*t. You can go to your boss and complain about the customer, but for the boss the money the customer brings is more important than your well being. So you get an angry boss instead of getting rid of the customer. The moral situation is indisputable, but enforcing your rights is a luxury you don't always have.

Therefore low power tactics is an important survival skill: Avoiding conflict without the necessity to give them what they want.
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There's some really interesting work (some of it recently from Cloudflare) on tying reputation to reliably anonymous trafic. Fair Anonymity and FAUST are the two approaches I'm familiar with, though AFAIU each are very preliminary academic proofs of concept, not anything production-ready.

There might be other ways of managing traffic, though it would require more pipe smarts.

Generally, I'm in favour of ASNs -- autonomous systems -- taking responsibility as you describe. After all, they do present a single administrative bound of control, and ought take responsibility for their traffic as you describe.

The Routeviews Project (asn.routeviews.org) offers both DNS lookups and downloadable zonefiles for mapping individual IPs to ASNs.

Of late, the problem I'm finding is that far too many services are hosted on Amazon, though firewalling off a wide swath of a few AWS AZs might be an interesting approach.
Depends on your screen, I guess. The 80-column format fits my phone's screen quite nicely with a bit of zooming.
Also, use "pointer" on them:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
> I’ll be the first person to admit I have no idea what postmodernism actually means

Well, if we want to take the title literally:

Error handling is a fundamentally Modernist idea - shoring up errors and "correcting" or at least containing them.

Postmodern error handling would be anything that reasonably counts as a reaction against Modernist error handling. The most basic would be not handling errors at all, and instead embracing the chaos of an error-prone system, and designing a system in which errors propagate but converge to a desirable value.
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