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> It's not a witch hunt if it actually happened

It can be. Take the case of Nobel prize winning scientist Tim Hunt who was excoriated online and off and later resigned for comments he in a speech made about woman in science.

Those comments actually happened, but later a full transcript of his speech revealed
them to be just a rather poor joke amid comments praising women in science, and were not representative of his actual views and actions over the course of his career.

Then there was the Rosetta mission scientist who caught flak for wearing a risqué tshirt, which actually happened, but the outcry was far disproportionate to the crime especially as it was later revealed that the shirt was given to him in the first place by a female friend.

So it is possible for witch hunts to occur even for things that 'actually happened'
Your boss almost certainly learned that trick from something like Dale Carnegie/Carnegey and practiced it.

Oversharing with strangers (bragging about loving your children?!) is a classic manipulative tactic.
I know precisely who you are, and I think you're jumping to conclusions in this case. People love to read morals, ethics, and politics into analyzing bug bounty submissions, but none of that is the primary factor here.

In general, it's not possible to "stumble upon" a $200k bug like the kind Apple is looking for, you have to set out with the intention to find one and work for it. But you're not on a contract and you're not getting paid the whole time. You only get paid on delivery and there's a high chance you won't have anything to deliver. It's just too much risk for an individual or company to commit months of time at potentially $0/hour.

You alluded to it, and it bears mentioning that there is a balancing act with future revenue streams too. If you set up the process to find one $200k bug then presumably you want to use all that know-how to find a second one. But reporting the first one to Apple will, generally, kill your entire revenue stream as Apple knows all your secrets now.

In general, working on $200k bug bounties is a bad business proposition. Period.
> I'm curious, why is that "far more likely"?

Simply because most people fall within a fairly narrow band of behavioral and psychological norms. Religion creates the fictitious idea that there are "good" people and "bad" people.

In reality most people are simply mediocre in the moral sense. Chances are Caldbeck is very much within the normal range, which, like it or not, the vast majority of people fall into.

There are some people who are sociopaths and truly predatory, but such people are exceedingly rare.
Making too many assumptions about the user environment is not smart. Then you start putting constraints and becoming defensive when these assumptions are questioned. This is becoming a pattern for systemd as is blaming everyone else. [1]

Those who need the complexity or some features should adopt the technical debt, there is zero rationale to enable it by default and impose it on everyone.

For instance if you have too many network interfaces and naming is a problem then switch on predictable network names which btw is anything but predictable for human beings and let the 97% who don't carry on.

12 digit random names are simply not predictable or better for human beings than eth0, wlan0? If there is a problem predictable network names is not the solution.

Similarly if you need binary logging and an audit trail then turn on binary logging but don't impose it on everyone else.

Its time to move beyond silly accusations of 'hate' etc every time there is a discussion about systemd because at the moment it just serves to deflect criticism and avoid accountability for questionable decisions.

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2407
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For stuff like how to map out an organization, who to go in through, etc?
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Does this exist?
No. It's a statement
Logicians on HN: Is there a special name for Appeal to Authority when applied to oneself?
This is a little snippet of grsecurity:

static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
{
- void *stack = task_stack_page(tsk);
struct vm_struct *vm = task_stack_vm_area(tsk);

BUILD_BUG_ON(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK) && PAGE_SIZE % 1024 != 0);
@@ -303,8 +357,12 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
* All stack pages are in the same zone and belong to the
* same memcg.
*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_KSTACKOVERFLOW
+ struct page *first_page = virt_to_page(tsk->lowmem_stack);
+#else
+ void *stack = task_stack_page(tsk);
struct page *first_page = virt_to_page(stack);
-
+#endif
mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(first_page), NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB,
THREAD_SIZE / 1024 * account);

Grsecurity isn't Linux plus some additional code. It's a modified version of Linux. Saying that a Linux 4.11 kernel patched with grsecurity isn't a derived work of Linux 4.11 is like saying that a Linux 4.11 kernel patched with patch-4.12.patch [1], otherwise known as Linux 4.12, is not a derived work of 4.11

[1] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/patch-4.12.xz
>You might put on a few pounds too as you start to actually taste food.

TL;DR How to Make a Friend Fast -- (1) smoke with them, so when they quit and need to drop a few pounds (2) they'll start fasting.
> Contrary to what you are saying, voting systems that exclude the "average people" are literally undemocratic.

Well that's somewhat of a moving goal post. Was the US not a democracy at it's inception because only land owners were allowed to vote? What about before black people and women were allowed to vote? Were Britain and Germany not democracies at the outbreak of WW2?

Most importantly of all, were the ancient Athenians not democratic? The average person was a slave, but the did define what democracy meant.
Caldbeck is already part of a rather exclusive sub-population: executives working at VCs.

Based on my observations of the behaviours of people in C-suite positions, I don't think I'd be so willing to use general population statistics as a justification for a priori exonerating the man.

As an aside, you've also posed a false dichotomy, here: Caldbeck is a calculating sociopath, or a bumbling idiot who stumbled into harrassment. The truth more likely lies somewhere in the middle.
"Hit it, and quit it."
At one point in the video they mention that this is what happened to the only Buran that actually was in space. The ones in the video were never completed/in service it seems.
1. Sell bug on the open market for whatever price the market will bear. Advantage: paid concomitant to your talents.
2. Wait n days. n could be zero. Don't have a theory for n.
3. Slip the bug to Apple anonymously.
I fucking hope not.

Linus is clearly very smart, but user-facing tools is not what he's good at. Git is a perfect example of this.

Mercurial and Git were created ridiculously close to each other, and their main features/use model are quite similar, and yet mercurial is literally years ahead in terms of usability. The results to a given command are 99% of the time, what you would intuitively expect.

Now here's what I would love to see: Linus initiate a fork/rewrite/whatever of the init part of systemd, that keeps the concept of non-executing service definition files. They don't have to be compatible with systemd but that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing either.

Edit: actually, aiming for compatibility probably means having to reimplement systemd weirdness, so probably is a bad thing as I think about it.
Maybe try to get a job in management so your dealing with people not just machines.
As far as I know, Apple's bug bounties are the highest in the industry. They're not competitive with the black market, but I don't think they should try to be.
They actually mention the hanger collapse during the video, that was the only ex-operational Buran that got crushed. The hanger in the video is the one that houses partially completed Burans.
Same thing happened with Berkeley in the US: originally "Barclay", and still pronounced "Barclay" in the UK.
Binary is being sued by a former employee

> Lai left Binary because of its “sexist and sexual environment,” including inappropriate conduct with female staff at company outings, a female-specific dress code and statements about the attractiveness of Lai and other women such as startup founders, according to the lawsuit. [1]

I'm extraordinarily skeptical something like this went on right in front of Tai without his implicit consent.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-29/former-em...
What's the difference between this and nuzzel?
If there's a shortage, or some other performance problem, they do, and they will.
>> Google is now a huge, slow corporation.

They have been huge and slow for many years. Google Drive is non-core for them, which doesn't help. They probably have the data on "number of files per user." But if you are too far into the tail, they probably care little. Now if this were an ad-related issue....
I haven't used PulseAudio until very recently when Firefox started requiring it for audio (chrome/chromium still support plain ALSA), that said I haven't come across any problem, what should I be looking out for ?
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Can't non-technical managers study up?

The wealthiest entrepreneur and fierce manager in Taiwan back in 60s/70s was a man who only finished elementary school during war-torn Taiwan. But he could detect bullshit miles away. After Chinese nationalist took over Taiwan from Japanese, he started petroleum cracking business. One interesting anecdote was that a science guy was presenting to him some shiny new process with some fancy reaction formulas. He frowned and whip out pencil and paper. He started to pick apart the scientist's formulas and mansplained to that scientist how that process may not work in his plant due to this and that in your equation requires this and that, which is too costly, etc. That scientist lived to tell the tale.
But... he probably has to settle for a Model 3! How embarrassing!
Most studies suggest that between 1-4% of the general population are sociopaths. That is not exceedingly rare, but rather people we will encounter on a daily basis. In certain professions, it's likely much higher.

The overall scope of accusations against Caldbeck (including the rather detailed court filing of former employee Ann Lai, which includes disturbing documentary evidence in the form of text messages) is, at this point, substantial.

Your choice to interpret and minimize this as mere 'poor judgment' and 'signals got mixed up' is questionable given the preponderance of evidence, and certainly does seem to minimize the scope of harassment reported by the victims. I mean, for heaven's sake, he had to leave Lightspeed because of his harassment of one of their founders! They took a big financial hit with StitchFix. This was clearly widely understood and swept under the rug.
Already submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661
Yes it would. However, note that it would not hurt their ability to be chief engineer - except that is not happening either.
i just want to point out the danger of associating introversion with social incompetence because the association is a poorly realized stereotype. it is entirely possible and not uncommon for an introvert to be highly socially competent.

introversion and extroversion are more descriptors of how one handles mental energy than ratings of social competence and degrees of shyness.

for example, i can be very social and outgoing at parties, but they completely exhaust me, and i don't like them. i am introverted because i prefer to direct my mental energy in a more inward, reflective way, and any process that impedes that (e.g., a party) can be very exhausting. it has little to do with how well i can handle myself socially.
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Which African countries have both great untapped talent and aren't hopelessly mired in corruption or violence and have a strong western-style legal framework? Those will be the ones that VCs feel safest investing in.

Until they are identified, I don't think VCs will put their money at risk. (They may already exist; I'm pleading ignorance here.)
I don't get it; I mean, I understand the idea of selection bias but what does that have to do with grandparent's point?

OK, a relatively large percent of hunter-gatherers die due lack of antibiotics & other modern medicine. But gp isn't claiming it'd be a good idea to return to a full hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They're just observing that "this is what a biologically normal, healthy homo sapiens looks like". And if you go to the gym you might replicate that -- presumably without incurring the fate of short-lived hunter-gatherers.
You can never know what's in another person's heart, heck, it's hard enough to know what's in your own heart sometimes.
If you know you'll either be broke or in debt, sure. But the alternative is making sure nobody's broke
The use of non-executing service definition files isn't really the problem with systemd - it's one of the parts I actually like.

The problem is more about the project itself. The scope keeps creeping to consume more and more things. The developers have a "we know better, do it this way, your argument is irrelevant" type attitude to outsiders.
Well, your payment could be part of a contract where they would only give you the money if Apple doesn't patch the bug in the next n days
Addendum from the author (linked at the bottom of the post): https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/884172574984462338
You're neglecting the effort needed to find the keys. Suppose you spend all day every day checking every car for miles around searching for keys left in them. That's your occupation.

Either:

A) You're already a criminal doing it for the money or

B) You're just trying to help people and not doing it for the money.

Person B probably doesn't exist. So you're probably already A, a criminal and you don't care if people think you're immoral.
My favorite podcast, "Ancient Greece Declassified" has a wonderful episode that discusses the Sea Peoples: http://greecepodcast.com/episode2.html.
Maybe, maybe not. I've had technical managers that weren't as good at that as this manager.

Now I'm sure maybe there are technical managers who can do this well too, but it's not an exclusive trait to them and my point (and experience) is simply that being non-technical is not in and of itself a disqualifying factor for being able to manage technical people.
> the pedometers require near constant use to be worthwhile
> means that there's some degree of mental energy devoted
> to them - is it charged, am I wearing it, etc.

That's what I like about my Withings Steel: it's just a normal (and beautiful!) wristwatch. I am wearing it everyday anyway. Actually I do not take it off, because it tracks sleep too. I am not worried about charging it, because it lasts for months. It looks like I get activity tracking as a bonus functionality. Much much better experience compared to some ugly dedicated tracker. Let's hope Nokia will not ruin it.
No. It's literally "Store, sync, and share files easily." [1]

There is no way to sync a device without an app. The app is not a bonus, it is a core feature of the service.

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/products/drive/
> I would say that having high grades has no correlation with business success.

Maybe it should. The fact that so many people is business successful while being uninformed and mostly incompetent is a problem. The current USA's president is a really good example on this. A general immoral behavior, and lack of knowledge allows him to accumulate wealth. And that's bad for a society, as it means that it is rewarding the wrong behaviors.

In a lot smaller scale I have seen this make business fail. In one company sales people were getting money on every sale, so they had their long time customers (company customers really) and had to do nothing to keep earning a big salary. The company changed this policy to bigger bonuses but just associated with new customers. This was a game changer. If you reward the correct behavior, you get it.

While we reward lobby creation, abuse of the legal system, etc. that's what makes rich people and that's what we get.
You appear to be ignoring the evidence that we already have of a years long pattern of behavior in Caldbeck.

Even if he were a naif that just accidentally harassed women, having Stitch Fix's ceo ask for him to be removed from the board should have been enough to make him modify his behavior [1]. Instead, he continued. That makes me update my prior that he's a serial harasser to about 99.99, though I'm willing to go higher.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/6/27/15880434/stitch-fix-ceo-jus...
It seems to me we are confusing words....rights and privileges are being confused with entitlements. The Code of Federal Regulations has very few entitlements, Medicare at the age of 65 and a Free Appropriate Public Education are two entitlements and there are a few select others. All others "rights or privileges" as discussed here require meeting specific criteria.....voting is a privilege afforded to those who register and the federal law allows states to prohibit Convicted felons or the mentally incompetent the right to vote. Most states have placed these restrictions on voting in their state constitution. Life is a privilege that a jury and the courts can remove in many states just as freedom is a privilege not a right.

An entitlement cannot be taken from you but suffice it to say entitlements are few in number in the US. As a reformed public servant who spent many many hours in the CFR, I assure you that you can count on one hand those entitlements.
> exonerating

My comment is not meant to exonerate Caldbeck. He went over the line and wound up having people speaking out about his inappropriate behavior. He's likely going to feel the embarrassment from his actions on an ongoing basis for years.

My point was that many people, if put in a position of power such as Caldbeck was, might very well have found themselves misconstruing the level of enthusiasm that founders had for hanging out with him, etc.
This plus FOMO will continue to be a big factor until more and more of these bad ideas implode.
Yes but you are presumably doing these audits on request, not cold-calling them, so to speak.
Decided to google about this...

Found this article: https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/129776/after_controve...

I wonder, how many people reading that article would predict the rise of stuff like GitHub and GitLab and the success of Git to the point of crushing CVS and making SVN decline in popularity?
> Implementing optional drm isn't the same thing as enforcing drm.

It's optional for the developer in most cases (apparently writing code without it can be harder if you want to interface with Steam's APIs[1]), but not for the user.

Not to mention that the majority of developers do use Steam's DRM, so it's a bit of a moot point. Even if they don't force developers to use it, they are hardly an "alternative".

> there is no drm free content on iTunes.

That is absolutely false -- all music on iTunes is DRM-free. That may have been true before 2009, but it is not true today. In 2007 Steve Jobs wrote an open letter about Apple's use of DRM and announced they would stop doing it, and in 2009 they had signed all of the necessary agreements with publishers to make all iTunes music DRM-free[2]. It is believed this was in reaction to an anti-trust lawsuit that started in 2005 (that eventually ruled in Apple's favour in 2014 partly because of their decision to no longer use DRM).

Since 2009, iTunes allows you to download any music you've ever purchased as a DRM-free mp3 (which is now patent-encumbered as well). Apple Music is an unfortunate reversal to that previous position (it uses DRM), and interestingly came out the year after the lawsuit was finished.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1v3dej/im_an_indie...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay
You're arguing a technicality regarding one pithy sentence in my comment.

Caldbeck sexually harassed women. Period. He confessed to it. He's now being sued for it.

This is not, in any way, shape, or form, anything remotely resembling a "witch hunt". It's literally the opposite of that, in that the person being accused of the crime is guilty of said crime.
What do you think the payouts should be?
But you said specifically "...and systemd has broken userspace a lot."

What did you mean by this? It seems like a complete nonsense statement in the context of user space breakage of the form the kernel is responsible for.

The main clash between the kernel maintainers and the systemd maintainers was over systemd reading the kernel argv in an error prone way to trigger debug information. Other than that the interactions seem completely minimal. Linus Torvalds uses systemd at work and at home.
The same way Columbus gave us our massive modern international shipping infrastructure. It's a small step in a large process. You don't just jump from A to B.

In this case, getting nearer to post-scarcity will undoubtedly involve capturing a much larger portion of the Sun's energy output (only one billionth reaches Earth), which will require significantly more developed space industries. Or if fusion becomes viable, we will need to harvest some of the more efficient inputs, such as He3 from the moon.

The technologies we develop to accomplish these endeavors will provide enormous benefits to all humans, including those still living on Earth.
Watching flat earth videos on YouTube is hilarious. Some of my favorites:

- they show Hillary Clinton talking about "the highest and hardest glass ceiling" in a speech. They use that as evidence that Hillary is secretly acknowledging the earth is flat and covered by a dome.

-a guy watches at a flight tracker of a flight from Africa to South America. Of course this flight would be much longer if the earth was flat. Well in the video he's watching and the flight disappears from the map not long after it starts crossing the ocean. The guy then says it's proof that the government is fiddling with flight info to hide the flat earth facts. Then I read the comments and one guy notes that you have to pay the flight tracker to track flights over the ocean... so funny
Similar in spirit is the Economist Espresso. I think there are five paragraph-long articles on various things, followed by maybe a dozen or so sentence-long summaries of what happened the previous day. It tends to cover politics throughout the week, business and finance on Friday, and arts on Saturday.
Sorry for the late reply, but it seems you misunderstood what I meant about Dunning-Kruger in that it has to do with ability or perhaps knowledge in a defined field but not in something like a subjective experience.

It'd be confirmation bias or some other thing but not Dunning-Kruger.
This falsehood keeps popping up, and not only can't it be shown to be true, it's illogical.

Init scripts are static. They don't change, they aren't ad-hoc, they aren't fragile. All modern Sysv init script systems have static scripts which 'include' a basic key=value pairs of environment variables from a config file. Nobody modifies scripts, or at least, they should not be doing it, and don't need to.

Many init scripts on my system have timestamps from the year 2002, and this system was just installed. They don't change because they don't need to change.

OTOH, Declarative unit files are configuration management taken away from the configuration management system, adding complexity.
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