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I agree, it sounds like once he realized his actions were blowing up in his face his behavior got ugly. That is certainly an indication of immaturity.

It's astounding to me that you view threatening to destroy someone's career as simply an "indication of immaturity"... immaturity implies impulsiveness, an act taken in the heat of the moment without a full understanding of the consequences.

The purported emails, texts, and linked-in messages demonstrate a pattern of persistent, premeditated behaviour that goes well beyond simple "immaturity".

Ultimately, Caldbeck's behavior was immature, inappropriate, and disgusting, but it was likely not illegal

At minimum we have clear allegations of harassment. You seem to be willing to dismiss those allegations out-of-hand, but neither of us is in a position to determine if those acts went to the level of breaking the law. That will be up to a jury to decide.

Would you really argue that someone in Teo's position should jeopardize his firm just to send a strong message about some accusations?

And head off a media circus? Absolutely! You cannot possibly believe that the way this has been handled has been even remotely optimal. If Teo knew about this (and let's face it, he probably did), he should've gotten waaaaay out in front of it.

At this point, he looks either 1) complicit, or 2) incompetent.
It's the overwhelming number of people who want to say
they're green, but still own two cars, never take public
transport, eat meat daily, live in big houses, and buy
buy buy.

This is the classic neoliberal "individual responsibility" framing, meant to cast global warming purely as a personal moral issue, and deflect attention from regulating corporations, which burn the majority of fossil fuels. Ending corn ethanol and oil industry subsidies will do far more than guilting people to buy electric cars.
The margins in Canadian telcos and banks are the opposite of thin...
Not necessary. Though it is quoted "an umbrella costs the company 60 yuan ($8.82 USD) each to replace"

It doesn't mean they are going to replace it. The 60 yuan probably factor in cost like manpower etc rather than just the cost of the umbrella.

So like some of the readers pointed out, it could possibly be a good way to sell umbrellas whilst crying out wolf that they are losing money as a way to prevent copycats
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No moral obligation? I don't think many people would agree with you on that.

If you are actively poking around at someone's home and you find an unlocked window, you don't think there is a moral obligation to inform the owner of the security issue? No moral issues if you then find a group of hoodlums down the street and announce that house 123 has an unlocked window?

I can see if you were just driving by and saw the window open, you don't really have any obligation (unless you plan to announce it publicly) but if you are actively seeking out security flaws in someone else's property, not disclosing it to the owner and then announcing it or worse, selling it to potentially bad actors seems morally reprehensible.
Give me #CCC on #222 any day.
I was talking about this at work today, that we expect things with huge societal gains to be entirely handled by individuals despite the fact that a) it obviously doesn't work and b) we never used to do it like this. College education in the US and the UK used to be heavily subsidised. Now it isn't and we wring our hands at all of the downsides saying "but what can we do?"
Doesn't this process break when, e.g., master + A passes tests, master + A + B fails, but master + A + B + C + D passes again (having been fixed by C + D accidentally)?

I mean, it's pretty unlikely to happen, but it's possible. Plus it doesn't matter if all you cared about was that the HEAD of master passes tests, but not the whole history.

However, the current approach, if rebasing is used to squash every merge request into a single commit on top of master, allows you to have a linear history of the master branch where every commit is known to pass the whole test suite that was in existence at that moment, which, I think, helps a lot when bisecting.

I'm not sure if Rust compresses merge requests into a single commit on top of master, though.
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As an administrator, you can place jobs into /Library/LaunchDaemons to run always, or /Library/LaunchAgents to run per-user when a user is logged in.
I know that it's open source, and open, interoperable protocols are a good thing.

But. I don't think IMAP is the real competition here. This is, for most people, a solved problem, and a problem that's been solved by exchange and gmail.

So for better or worse, showing you're better than IMAP doesn't cut it. You have to show you're better than exchange.

One of the things I don't understand is why email protocols were allowed to languish for so long, making proprietary groupware suites practically mandatory for getting work done.
Sounds like a good rule of thumb but it really depends on the application.
Yeah, the solution is pretty clearly to shift the risk/expense to some other party. There seems to be zero political will to have the government do any of that (or anything, really), so it is really up to the private sector.
I prefer A Way with Words, which is more entertaining and has actual linguists and etymologists. The hosts have nice interplay and it works on multiple levels: goofy fun if you want it but real information if that's not enough. http://waywordradio.org.
> I've tried all kinds of things, except professional help, which I can't really do right now because of reasons: vitamins, caffeine, no caffeine, exercise, meditation, not eating carbs, getting more sunlight. None of it works.

I am just assuming but perhaps you didn't try some of these long enough?
I have read somewhere that it takes at least six months before benefits of meditation are appear. Probably same thing with exercise or vitamins too.

I had run into focus issues too, went to doctor and described it just like how you are describing. He told me to take vitamin D. And then recommended to take ADHD test & lift heavy (to increase testosterone as I was on low end). Only thing, I really did semi-consistently is taking Vitamin D almost daily. I do seem to have better focus now, but still it could be improved a lot.
I think so. My point is, government price ceilings on all health procedures are so noxious to half the polity that nobody will support it, and we'll get single payer by default.
i think all the ROPs i used in the last exploit i wrote were all not real instructions. these seem to be the most interesting.
Well, you don't have to be at a place with a SSH client for once. Its outputs to a webpage.
I personally think that is impossible. It would be like training a rat to sing opera. We don't fundamentally have the hardware that would allow it.

We have been technically able to satisfy the needs of everybody from a purely material point of view for decades now.

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not every man's greed" - Gandhi
Yes it reads like satire. MirageOS, having been written in OCaml, would have a better claim to being written with security in mind.
It's been pointed out to me lately that "prescriptive grammar" is apparently classist/racist, which is strange considering I grew up dirt poor in Appalachia but still bothered to learn the difference in "who" and "whom". In languages like French it's a crucial understanding but English got lazy and for whatever reason, direct object pronouns are a tripping point for many students of a foreign language. Astounding.
I don't think so. https://godbolt.org/g/GBZgER
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Really? If so, this is where they are losing me...
I'll stick with the Oracle of Omaha. :)
Given the product and strategic path they're on the only thing they can do to create value is restart user growth. Their business model depends on them becoming a powerful brand advertising platform (brand advertising is when companies want to spread general awareness of their brands and influence the public's overall impressions of what a company stands for, even if it is far removed from any actual moment of purchase; TV has traditionally been the dominant brand advertising platform, but as cable TV is beginning its decline into irrelevance the top spot is up for grabs). They're not into collecting super detailed info on users, so advertising can't be too targeted, and they're not pushing a shopping angle either.

And in order to become a compelling brand advertising platform they need massive reach (i.e. at least a billion users).

How can they restart user growth? Well, that's probably going to be pretty hard at this point. I suspect they'll need to broaden their appeal from their initial teens/college/just-out-of-college user base to an older and more diverse crowd (just like Facebook and Instagram did). That will probably require some UI redesign to make things a bit more intuitive to navigate, and perhaps other feature changes that make it a more attractive destination.

However, I think it's basically all but impossible for them to restart the growth engine at this point. A lot of people have heard of Snapchat, tried it, and decided they don't like or just don't see the point when they already use Instagram.

Making matters worse is the fact that their initial market is incredibly hard to hold on to. Things almost never stay super popular across multiple "generations" of high school and college kids (except for default utilities that everyone at every age uses). In other words, it's unlikely that Snapchat will be popular with high school and college kids in five years.

So, I suspect that as their metrics stagnate and decline over the next few years they will increasingly focus on a series of moonshot new product ideas (like Specs) and hope that something sticks. But there's little reason to suspect that they'll be any better at building a random new product than any other start-up or big company out there (and, in fact, I'd argue there are some good reasons to think they'll be worse).

As is probably pretty obvious, I'm quite bearish on Snap these days. I was extremely bullish a year and a half ago, but they've just been so slow to execute when it mattered. They lost their wave of growth. At this point, I'd be surprised if they can catch another.
When someone misses a train because of some forced Windows update, they just call the police and they force Bill Gates to fix that right up.

How about this instead, just imagine I'm so dumb that you have to spell your point out fully. I don't get what you're trying to say, what rookie cop? A specific one, or "the" rookie cop, every single one? And who is Bill Gates? If it's not worth spelling it out for you it's not worth trying to speculate for me.
It seems more and more the case that employers are not willing to train employees. This is not surprising given the trend away from long-term obligations. Although, I wonder if this is reinforced in some way (employment/tax policy, law, etc.).
Facebook has been profitable each fiscal year they've been public. Their first full year public they produced $1.5 billion in net income.

Facebook is tracking to a ~31 PE ratio for fiscal 2017, with a growth rate that is still high.

$14 billion in net income (fiscal 2017 speculative), is a lot more important as a metric than $200 per user. If they push that net income up to $30 billion over the next four or five years (very plausible), at 24 times earnings (at that point, speculating on a $720b market cap), maybe their per user climbs to $300+ - it still won't matter, the net income is what will matter.

Snapchat doesn't possess any of the positive financial qualities that Facebook had, to square against the high per user value.
>Becoming aware of a bug does not suddenly put people at any more risk than they were previously in, prior to bug discovery.

I agree, which is why I said "keep[s] [...] millions of users at risk" not "puts millions of users at risk". An unfound bug is still a potential zero-day. With something as valuable as an iphone exploit, we know multiple entities are desperately looking for it, so I wouldn't err on the side of assuming that any exploit would not be found. (or put more succintly: If you've found it, someone else might've to)
Yes, I assumed that the option existed, but I think you are going to see a lot of people who want their car to start charging right when they get home in case they plan to take the car out again that evening or even for emergency issues like what if a child gets sick in the night and the car hasn't started charging yet. Obviously won't be the case for everyone but I can see it being a reason to charge immediately.
1. You don't understand the economies of scale.

2. Umbrellas are just the first step. First it was umbrellas, but next they'll do water bottles, etc.

3. Amazon didn't make a profit for the first 10 years, they're just focusing on growth.

4. It's recurring revenue, so it's actually worth more than one-time sales.

5. They're not an umbrella company, they're a tech company.
I'm working on a system that summarize a news. Not sure if it stand a chance to get big as there are many sites like this, :P
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If the argument is supposed to mean "Unikernel applications cannot call system("echo " + user_provided_input)", well, it's pretty easy to do that in conventional applications: just don't call system. If you want to be sure instead of relying on static analysis/code review, rm /bin/sh in your production containers, or something.

Changing all your code to respect this standard is strictly less hard than porting it to a unikernel, because it's one step of porting it to a unikernel.
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China isn't a profitable country to the US. China fate is in their hands. That's why they are even able to kick out big US companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Uber.

South Africa is very a profitable country to the West, not the other way round. It was even more profitable during the dark days of apartheid. That's why USA was sponsoring apartheid government with intelligence and arms. Google about Mandela arrest and CIA's involvement. They even listed Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. Even when he was President, he was still listed as a terrorist. US only removed him from the terrorist list few years ago.

I live in South Africa.
You're right, that legal these refer to different concepts. My US employer didn't worry about distinguishing between them when I went through harassment/discrimination training.
I hate to state the obvious, but with an announced end of the incentives, two things are to be expected: a peak of demand just before the end and the steep drop after. Whoever wanted a Tesla just got one.
Education takes a generation or two to work even for simple things, and what you're asking for is deep and fundamental. Surely you have noticed by now that a good quarter of the US population views all forms of public education with hostility. Think also how long it has taken for obviously sensible ideas to catch on, and then consider the much greater difficulty of inculcating abstract moral and political concepts.

Radical changes in awareness (and self-awareness) would be a fine thing, but frankly I think most people know about climate change already; some of them refuse to believe it, some of them would just prefer not to believe it, and some of them just don't care. The more public service announcements you make, the more they'll be denounced as satanic/communist/whatever propaganda.

Honestly, if you really want an outbreak of radical self-awareness, cross your fingers, hire every young organic chemist you can find, and start producing industrial quantities of LSD. That is not a facetious suggestion; psychedelics yield unpredictable but powerful changes in consciousness and can have a lasting impact on perception and behavior precisely because they subvert standard epistemological filters.

A move toward genuine sense of responsibility toward others is something that often emerges out of the shared experience of disaster. Just as you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, you can lead people towards enlightenment but you can't make them think. Experience is the great teacher. Since we'd obviously rather not use disaster as our classroom, it's incumbent on us to create experiences that are sufficiently meaningful to alter behavior.
The real problem for unikernels is that they are effectively irrelevant until the major clouds provide millisecond boot times along with appropriate pricing models that charge for execution on a millisecond level basis.

Developers love to write code, but unless unikernel developers start speaking up instead of writing code, the major clouds won't get on board and provide the needed fast boot times plus pricing, which makes all this unikernel code not a lot more than interesting personal / academic projects.

Questions of unikernel security are certainly academic if the cloud infrastructure doesn't run them in the most effective manner.
The Travis smoke tests against PRs are only done in a single configuration, so are relatively cheap.

I think it would double expenses because our CI runs at capacity. To do parallel builds we would have to contract for double the compute resources. (With a different purchase structure for our CPU time you may be right about that, but not sure).
I'm confused. There are about 40,000 known species of vertebrate. There were 18,000 NEW species of life in general discovered in 2016 alone (http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-spec...). It's estimated there are more than 8 million species of plant, animal and insect life on the earth. Population decline doesn't equal extinction.

So how, pray tell, do we find ourselves in a mass extinction event when less than half of vertebrate species are in decline, less than 1% of species in general are in decline, and when we're still discovering new species and adaptations by existing species every year?
What a sad person you must be if you feel the need to downvote even this comment.
It was a polite and with clear reasoning.
The fact that you chose to downvote it shows pettiness on your side.

Quite a little man!
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i wonder if the community realizes how bad those kind of overhyped companies makes us look to the general audience, with founders cashing out shortly after the stock gets public and everybody realizes valuation were simply absurd.

i don't think we'll have to wait for a long time before we see traditional investment funds and banks not willing to take part in that game anymore.
This is a great idea. My two cents:

1. An accounts system would be great so that I could just run ``python experiment.py | seashells u=almostarockstar p=hunter2`` or similar with keys, and then have a bookmark on my phone to view seashells.io/u/almostarockstar.

2. A self hosted / open source option would be awesome.

3. A way to view other peoples public seashells urls would make this interesting.

4. Possible options to allow html output which could be paired with a css file attached to your account.

Can't wait to set this up with my own experiments
(evolutionary computation).
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> the Mac still has the display Postscript stack from the NeXT era and PDF essentially an envelope for it.

This is a common misconception. Display PostScript was never present in any released version of macOS. It was replaced by the Quartz renderer, which is rather different.

Quartz can display and output to PDFs, but it does not use PDF as an internal format.
Fb also bought IG at their IPO time and WhatsApp 2 years later. Both combined should be worth over $100B today. Compared to the roughly $20B spent. Obviously FB is still worth over $300B if we hypothetically chop $100B off. Far above IPO still. Just saying that FB had multiple things go very well for them to go from merely profitable at IPO to being the giant it is now -- mainly mobile exploding, but other things too.

This doesn't matter too much, but it also feels like Snapchat has more competition in a way too while growing. Besides other social networks and FB copying them, Snow is gaining ground in Asia right now. FB primarily had regional competitors limited to one main country (like VK or Orkut in Brazil). I could be wrong about this though.
C++ is not "strongly typed" when compared to almost any other statically-typed language, e.g. Ada, OCaml, Haskell or Rust. This is a big part of why it is so insecure.
Glad to see all the ways people use them!

Date and Darwen are clear-thinking and they write well. But you are right that they are quick to criticize and some of the alternative solutions they offer are unconvincing.

The most obvious example is their handling of NULL, which had a bunch of great criticisms followed by a totally impractical altenative ("special values"). If they had been a bit more humble, maybe they would have just borrowed Maybe/Option types from ML.

On the other hand, they really helped me make the connection between logic and databases. And that helped me a lot in practical ways (e.g. exploring dirty data precisely).

Regarding temporal data, they divorced from SQL and started from first priciples. That clarified a lot of things for me and then I adapted those ideas to SQL.

So: their books are great, but I don't recommend joining their cult ;-)

EDIT: I think a lot of SQL implementations are going about temporal the wrong way. They should focus on the fundamental building blocks first (like ranges of time) and build up from there.
I don't believe there are any silver bullets in security.
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I might be dumb but can't you kind of polyfill this behavior by making your SPA cache itself on load and response to everything as events, like shown in the repo linked in this article?
I will build a system that will let you use both Reddit and HN using the same interface.

Will you try it?
I've been an on-and-off paid user of RT for several years and it has probably saved me thousands of hours. Since the software is somewhat popular, I think he had a great impact on the world. Thanks to the RT team for this thoughtful announcement.
1) Make a plan, any plan. A bad plan is worth more than no plan. So do it.

2) Go to sleep and wake-up at the same time everyday.

3) Get out of the house

4) Spend a few buxs to take a community college class. This will force you to take action and get a kickstart.

5) Get professional help.
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Car insurance doesn't cover routine maintenance, for example. So the prices for things like oil changes are relatively reasonable. If we had to go through insurance for things like that, then I'm willing to bet that the price of the service would increase substantially and auto insurance premiums would go up quite a bit as well.
So you'd be happier with an empire honest about its behavior than one which seeks to dissemble about it? I mean I'm having kind of a hard time figuring out what you're getting at here, is what I'm trying to say. Can you explain it in a way that involves less vague inveighing against ill-characterized
malfeasance, and a more coherent statement of what you're actually about?